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    • 105. Impuls a les tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació a la UPC 

      Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Rectorat (Oficina de Comunicació i Relació amb els Mitjans, 1998-11)
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    • 3D-printed UHF-RFID tag for embedded applications 

      Vidal, Neus; Lopez-Villegas, Josep Maria; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Salas Barenys, Arnau; Garcia-Miquel, Aleix; González López, Giselle; Jofre Roca, Lluís (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-08-10)
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      This paper presents the design, manufacture and characterization of a novel 3D passive UHF-RFID tag for embedded applications. The prototype is fabricated using additive manufacturing techniques: 3D printing and copper ...
    • 5GHz CMOS all-pass filter-based true time delay cell 

      Aghazadeh Dafsari, Seyed Rasoul; Martínez García, Herminio; Saberkari, Alireza (2018-12-22)
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      Analog CMOS time-delay cells realized by passive components, e.g., lumped LC delay lines, are inefficient in terms of area for multi-GHz frequencies. All-pass filters considered as active circuits can, therefore, be the ...
    • A case study for the verification of complex timed circuits: IPCMOS 

      Peña Basurto, Marco Antonio; Cortadella, Jordi; Pastor Llorens, Enric; Smirnov, Alexandre (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2002)
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      The verification of a n-stage pulse-driven IPCMOS pipeline, for any n>0, is presented. The complexity of the system is 32n transistors and delay information is provided at the level of transistor The correctness of the ...
    • A circuit-level SPICE modeling strategy for the simulation of behavioral variability in ReRAM 

      Cayo, Jose; Vourkas, Ioannis; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
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      The intrinsic behavioral variability in resistive switching devices (also known as 'memristors' or 'ReRAM devices') can be a reliability limiting factor or an opportunity for applications where randomness of resistance ...
    • A compact switched-capacitor multi-bit quantizer for low-power high-resolution delta-sigma ADCs 

      Cisneros Fernández, Jose Agustín; Serra Graells, Francisco; Teres Teres, Lluis; Dei, Michele (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      This paper proposes a compact switched-capacitor (SC) multi-bit flash quantizer for low-power high-resolution delta-sigma modulators (¿SMs). First, a general power model for single-loop ¿SMs is presented to show the ...
    • A comparison of PUF cores suitable for FPGA devices 

      Mureddu, Ugo; Bossuet, Lilian; Fischer, Viktor (2016-11-14)
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      A PUF extracts a unique identifier per die using physical random variation caused by variability of the manufacturing process. PUFs can be used for hardware authentication, but also as generators of confidential keys. ...
    • A comprehensive high-level model for CMOS-MEMS resonators 

      Banerji, Saoni; Fernández, Daniel; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi (2018-01-24)
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      This paper presents a behavioral modeling technique for CMOS microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microresonators that enables simulation of an MEMS resonator model in Analog Hardware Description Language format within a ...
    • A crosstalk latch circuit design 

      Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio; Pons Nin, Joan; Anglada, Raimon (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1990)
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      A D-latch sequential circuit design is presented that exhibits an elevated degree of tolerance to common and differential mode noise in the clock lines. The circuit tolerates noise voltages in the clock signals in the range ...
    • A detailed methodology to compute soft error rates in advanced technologies 

      Riera Villanueva, Marc; Canal Corretger, Ramon; Abella Ferrer, Jaume; González Colás, Antonio María (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      System reliability has become a key design aspect for computer systems due to the aggressive technology miniaturization. Errors are typically dominated by transient faults due to radiation and are strongly related to the ...
    • A forming-free ReRAM cell with low operating voltage 

      Yang, Binbin; Xu, Nuo; Li, Cheng; Huang, Chenglong; Ma, Desheng; Liu, Jiahao; Arumi Delgado, Daniel; Fang, Liang (2020-11-25)
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      The unwanted electro-forming process is unavoidable for the practical application of most resistive random access memory (ReRAM) devices, which is always being one of the obstacles for the massive commercialization of this ...
    • A highly-accurate low-power CMOS potentiostat for implantable biosensors 

      Razzaghpour, Milad; Rodriguez Duenas, Saul; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Rusu, Ana (IEEE, 2011)
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      Current-mirror-based potentiostats suffer from systematic and random errors causing offset, gain and linearity error in reading out the sensor data. In this work, a new potentiostat topology is proposed to eliminate the ...
    • A Low-Cost Unified Experimental FPGA Board for Cryptography Applications 

      Bartík, Matěj; Buček, Jiří (2016-11-16)
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      This paper describes the evaluation of available experimental boards, the comparison of their supported set of experiments and other aspects. The second part of this evaluation is focused on the design process of the ...
    • A multi-synchronous bi-directional NoC (MBiNoC) architecture with dynamic self-reconfigurable channel for the GALS infrastructure 

      Kamal, Rajeev; Moreno Aróstegui, Juan Manuel (Elsevier, 2017-03-16)
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      Abstract To enhance the performance of on-chip communications of Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous Systems (GALS), a dynamic reconfigurable multi-synchronous router architecture is proposed to increase network on ...
    • A new probabilistic design methodology of nanoscale digital circuits 

      García Leyva, Lancelot; Calomarde Palomino, Antonio; Moll Echeto, Francisco de Borja; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (IEEE Press. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011)
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      The continuing trends of device scaling and increase in complexity towards terascale system on chip level of integration are putting growing difficulties into several areas of design. The intrinsic variability problem is ...
    • A pragmatic gaze on stochastic resonance based variability tolerant memristance 

      Ntinas, Vasileios; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio; Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch.; Cotofana, Sorin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
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      Stochastic Resonance (SR) is a nonlinear system specific phenomenon, which was demonstrated to lead to system unexpected (counter-intuitive) performance improvements under certain noise conditions. Memristor, on the other ...
    • A Reliable Low-area Low-power PUF-based Key Generator 

      Böhm, Christoph; Bucci, Marco; Hofer, Maximilian; Luzzi, Raimondo (2016-11-14)
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      This paper reports the implementation of a lowarea low-power 128-bit PUF-based key generation module which exploits a novel Two-Stage IDentification (TSID) cell showing a higher noise immunity then a standard SRAM cell. ...
    • A reprogrammable graphene nanoribbon-based logic gate 

      Rallis, Konstantinos; Fyrigos, Iosif-Angelos; Dimitrakis, Panagiotis; Dimitrakopoulos, George N.; Karafyllidis, Ioannis; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio; Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch. (2023)
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      In this article, taking into consideration the exceptional technological properties of a unique 2-D material, namely Graphene, we are envisioning its usage as the structure material of a non-back-gated re-programmable ...
    • A Self-Repairable TRNG 

      Martin, Honorio; Di Natale, Giorgio; Peris-Lopez, Pedro (2016-11-14)
      Conference report
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    • A systematic method to design efficient ternary high performance CNTFET-based logic cells 

      Dabaghi Zarandi, Arezoo; Reza Reshadinezhad, Mohammad; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-01-01)
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      The huge quantity of nodes and interconnections in modern binary circuits leads to extremely high levels of energy consumption. The interconnection complexity and other issues of binary circuits encourage researchers to ...