The high-frequency variability characterization of MOSFETs is becoming more necessary due to new process developments such as high-K metal gates,…
The purpose of this project is to design a building block for communications systems that produces a phase-modulated output based…
With the continued communications systems trend towards high data rates come increasingly high signal bandwidths. If the carrier frequency is…
During recent years, a great effort has been made by researchers of the Electronic Design Automation community to develop new…
A technique for locating junctions in an integrated circuit with electroquasistatic sensors is under development for imaging purposes. An array…
This project is part of the Hybrid Insect-MEMS (HI-MEMS) program sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The…
The commercialization of numerous high-performance multimedia devices, in particular portable devices such as camera phones, high-resolution video camcorders, and digital…
With an increasing need for higher data rates, both wireless applications and data links are demanding higher speed analog-to-digital converters…
In this work, we are designing high-performance pipeline ADCs using the zero-crossing-based structure , which is an extension of the…
Wideband RF power amplifiers (PAs) with high efficiency are of great importance in high-data-rate communications. Tremendous efforts to beat the…
Under the pressure of increasing population, crowded traffic, the energy crisis, and environmental concerns, current transportation systems have run into…
This research explores a two-stage architecture that combines the strengths of switched capacitor (SC) techniques (small size, light-load performance) with…
Many analog signal processing circuits use operational amplifiers (opamps) in a negative feedback topology. Error in these feedback systems is…
State-of-the-art capacitance extraction methods for Integrated Circuits (IC) involve scanning 2-D cross sections and interpolating 2-D capacitance values using a…
Digital logic circuits are most energy-efficient when operated at very low (near subthreshold) voltages. However, many severely energy-constrained applications (e.g.,…
With the advent of chip multi-processors (CMPs), on-chip networks are critical for providing low-power communications that scale to high core…
Switched-capacitor circuits can be used to implement many analog systems such as ADCs, DACs, filters, amplifiers, and integrators. In earlier…
As process technology scales, the importance of material and architectural innovation on interconnect performance will continue to increase. Graphene has…
Electromechanical resonators such as quartz crystals, surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators, and ceramic resonators have become essential components in electronic…
Most current ultrasound imaging systems use piezoelectric materials for the ultrasound transducer. The recent development of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) allowed…
This work describes the design, optimization and evaluation of the power electronics circuitry for a low-power portable thermophotovatic (TPV) generator…
Figure 1: 3D layout of the distribution grid (not to scale) showing Vdd (red or dark grey) and Gnd (green…
System-level design optimization has recently started drawing the attention of circuit designers. A system-level optimizer would search over the entire…
Technology scaling poses challenges in designing analog circuits because of the decrease in intrinsic gain and reduced swing. An alternative…
Advances in sensor technologies are creating a paradigm shift in the way humans interact with their environments. For instance, one…
The rise of on-body medical monitoring devices has created a need to efficiently and securely transmit physiological information around the…
There is a need for large embedded memory that operates over a wide range of supply voltage compatible with the…
Figure 1: Comparison of output characteristics of OTFT with two different insulators, parylene and BZN. VGS is stepped from 0V…
This work describes an architecture and circuit implementation of a fractionally spaced equalizer (FSE) receiver, built to unify equalization and…
The performance of future manycore processors will only scale with the number of integrated cores if there is a corresponding…
Continuous and aggressive scaling has led to increasing variation in process parameters, which are most critical in determining the quality…
With the adoption of restricted design rules (RDR) and ultra-regular fabric paradigms for controlling design printability at the 22nm node…
Statistical process variations have long been an important design issue. But until recently, process variations have been global process variations….
Uncertainties in the integrated circuit manufacturing processes typically result in interconnect structures, whose dimensions and shapes deviate from the original…
Uncertainties in the integrated-circuit manufacturing processes typically result in interconnect structures whose dimensions and shapes deviate from the original design…
Enabling parallel processing is becoming increasingly necessary for video decoding as performance requirements continue to rise due to growing resolution…
In wireless sensor applications such as implantable neural recording arrays, the high energy cost to transmit a bit of information…
The proposed research program has two primary goals. The first goal is to improve the evaluation and treatment of patients…
With the escalating costs of hospital visits, clinicians are opting to use at-home monitoring devices to diagnose patients. Current ECG…
Advances in mobile electronics are fueling new possibilities for small, non-invasive, ambulatory medical monitoring systems that can be used to…
Millimeter-wave imaging has potential applications such as collision-avoidance radar at 77GHz and concealed-weapons detection at 77GHz, 94GHz, and higher. This…
Increasing the switching frequency of DC-DC converters has the benefits of requiring less passive energy storage and providing improved transient…
Silicon CMOS circuits have a well-defined lower limit on their achievable energy efficiency due to subthreshold leakage. Once this limit…