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A buffering strategy that utilizes the ability of a capacitor to efficiently operate over a wide voltage range allows increasing…
Figure 1 shows the block diagram of the proposed time-interleaved analog digital converter (ADC) with the associated timing diagram. The…
Significant effort is spent researching hardware and software acceleration of basic building blocks for numerical computation[1][2][3]; however, the majority of…
Bandpass delta-sigma modulators (BPDSMs) are a good solution for modern receiver systems. They digitize analog signals directly from the intermediate…
A monolithically integrated photonic modulator and driver circuit is a key building block toward realizing a dense and energy-efficient communication…
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)[1], the latest video standard, uses larger and variable-sized coding units and longer interpolation filters than…
Wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) silicon-photonic links form a promising alternative to traditional electrical interconnects. However, the essential component of these WDM…
LED lighting promises unprecedented reductions in energy consumption, but it comes with an as-yet unmet demand for high power density,…
Monolayer MoS2, a transition metal dichalcogenide, is a novel flexible semiconducting material with a 1.8 eV direct band gap. Recent…
With its rich physics, graphene has properties that make it a viable candidate for implementing electronic devices. For example, graphene…
As CMOS technology scales down and the need for higher data rates increases, non-ideal channel characteristics play a critical role…
As wireless communication technology is rapidly advancing, new wireless applications are continuously developed. Figure 1 shows each application space and…
Transistor scaling has resulted in integration of more functionality on a single die. On-chip memories are responsible for a large…
There is an ever-increasing demand for high-resolution and high-accuracy A/D converters in communication systems. In order to raise the sampling…
A novel device, erbium silicon photonic integrated oscillators and radar (ESPIOR), is composed of state-of-the-art silicon photonics and erbium-ytterbium based…
Compressed sensing (CS) is a sub-Nyquist sampling technique[1] with under-explored implementation potential. In this multi-disciplinary project, we analyze CS circuit…
Switched-Capacitor (SC) DC-DC converters have gained significant interest as promising candidates for integrated power conversion solution that eliminates the need…
Improved monitoring of industrial equipment through the use of vast networks of small, easily installed, long-lasting, reliable wireless sensor nodes…
With the advent of reliable, high-brightness and high-efficacy LEDs, the lighting industry is expected to see a significant growth in…
This project presents a new topology for a high-efficiency dc/dc resonant power converter that utilizes a resistance compression network[1],[2]. Unfortunately,…
High-performance chips nowadays use multiple processing cores on the same die, connected by a network-on-chip (NoC). The NoC is a…
The small intestine is one of the most difficult organs to image because of its length and narrow winding path….
Silicon CMOS circuits have a well-defined lower limit on their achievable energy efficiency due to sub-threshold leakage. Once this limit…
The capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducer (CMUT) is an alternative to traditional piezoelectric transducers. The CMUT technology provides an opportunity for…
Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that affects about 1% of the world population[1]. It is characterized by repeated…
Due to the growing populations in cities, resources for city and village residents have become scare while costs for public…
The central objective of critical care for patients affected by neurotrauma, cerebrovascular accident (i.e., stroke), and other neurovascular pathologies is…
Vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, cardiac output, and respiratory rate are necessary in determining the…
Body coupled communication (BCC) uses the conductive tissues in the body as a channel to form a body area network…
Integrated photonic interconnects enable new possibilities for bandwidth and energy-efficiency driven VLSI applications, such as many-core processor systems, by removing…
We have developed an experimental cardiac monitor for long-term data acquisition and analysis. The monitor consists of a central printed…
CMOS image sensors are widely used in digital multimedia applications, and its performance ramps up every year with denser integration,…
In this work, a statistical extension of the ultra-compact virtual source (VS) MOSFET model is developed here for the first…
Traditional capacitance extraction for VLSI interconnects usually adopts 2D scanning and table look-up methods for fast extraction at acceptable accuracy….
Design and fabrication uncertainties have become an important issue in nano-scale integrated circuit design. Such uncertainties are typically randomly distributed,…
Designers are particularly interested in periodic steady-state (PSS) analysis when designing analog/RF circuits or power electronic systems. Such circuits include…
A. H. Chang, H.-S. Lee, D. S. Boning Sponsorship: Masdar Institute of Science and Technology There is a growing demand…