Browsing by Subject "Microelectronics"
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A contactless capacitive angular-position sensor
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2003-10)
Article
Open AccessThis paper presents an absolute capacitive angular-position sensor with a contactless rotor. The sensor is mainly composed of three parts: the capacitive sensing element, a signal processor, and a microcontroller. The ... -
A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Cell Routing using Litho-friendly Layouts
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-06-17)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
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A Low-Power High-Resolution Delta-Sigma ADC IP in 22 nm CMOS Technology for Smart Sensing Applications
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-09-08)
Master thesis
Restricted access - confidentiality agreementThe present project comprises the third generation of $\Delta\Sigma$ ADCs developed at the IMB-CNM with the design of a 16-bit 50-kHz $\Delta\Sigma$ modulator circuit as a mixed-signal IP block in the 22-nm 0.8-V FD-SOI ... -
A novel sensor-bridge-to-microcontroller interface
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2001-05)
Conference report
Open AccessSensor bridges are usually interfaced to microcontrollers by supplying the bridge with a voltage or current and digitizing the resulting voltage or current after being amplified and low-pass filtered. This paper proposes ... -
A Supply-voltage driving scheme for grounded capacitive sensor front-ends
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-01-01)
Article
Open Accessn this article, a novel supply-voltage driving1 (SVDR) scheme for capacitive sensor front-ends is proposed to2 eliminate the parasitic capacitance effects. The suggested circuit3 is intended for remote sensors (and, hence, ... -
A Vector processing unit implementation for RISC-V vector extension: Functional verification and assertions on submodules
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-09)
Master thesis
Open AccessPower dissipation and Energy consumption of digital circuits has emerged as an important design parameter in the evaluation of microelectronic circuits. This has led electronic architects to value Parallel Architectures ... -
Abisko: Deep codesign of an architecture for spiking neural networks using novel neuromorphic materials
(SAGE publishing, 2023-07)
Article
Open AccessThe Abisko project aims to develop an energy-efficient spiking neural network (SNN) computing architecture and software system capable of autonomous learning and operation. The SNN architecture explores novel neuromorphic ... -
Accurate and wide field of view MEMS-based sun sensor for industrial applications
(IEEE Press. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012-02-24)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper describes the design, fabrication, simulation, and experimental results of an improved miniaturized two-axis sun sensor for industrial applications, created by adapting a technology used previously in satellite ... -
Advanced failure detection techniques in deep submicron CMOS integrated circuits
(Pergamon Press, 2009)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe test of present integrated circuits exhibits many confining aspects, among them the adequate selection of the observable variables, the use of combined testing approaches, an each time more restricted controllability ... -
An energy management system design using fuzzy logic control: smoothing the grid power profile of a residential electro-thermal microgrid
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-02-02)
Article
Open AccessThis work deals with the design of a Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) based Energy Management System (EMS) for smoothing the grid power profile of a grid-connected electro-thermal microgrid. The case study aims to design an Energy ... -
An output-capacitorless FVF-based low-dropout regulator for power management applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper presents an output-capacitorless low dropout (LDO) regulator based on improved flipped voltage follower power stage for use in power management circuits. A new error amplifier (EA) structure, named as gain-bandwidth ... -
Analog VLSI implementation of kernel-based classifiers
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1994)
Conference report
Open AccessKernel-based classifiers are neural networks (radial basis functions) where the probability densities of each class of data are first estimated, to be used thereafter to approximate Bayes boundaries between classes. Such ... -
Analysis of a plasmonic graphene antenna for microelectronic applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyGraphene offers a large potential to downscale antennas to the micrometer scale, due to its special dispersion relation and its ability to support plasmons in the THz frequency range. For an adequate performance of the ... -
Biofilm oxygen profiling using an array of microelectrodes on a microfabricated needle
(2014)
Conference lecture
Open AccessKnowledge of bacterial activity inside biofilms is key to the optimization of applied biotechnologies. A novel dissolved oxygen microelectrode array (DO-MEA) sensor has been designed and fabricated on a needle using ... -
CBRAM-based bio-inspired circuit for the emulation and treatment of the Parkinson’s Disease
(2024-04)
Article
Restricted access - author's decisionIn recent years, the intrinsic neuromorphic properties of memristor devices have led to their extensive use in brain-inspired circuits and systems. The development of brain-inspired (nano)circuits incorporating memristors ... -
Characterization and modeling of organic thin-film transistors based pi-conjugated small molecule tetraphenyldibenzoperiflanthene: effects of channel length
(2016-07-01)
Article
Open AccessP-type organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) with different channel lengths have been fabricated and characterized by thermal evaporation using the small tetraphenyldibenzoperiflanthene (DBP) as an active material on Si/SiO2 ... -
Charge induced by ionizing radiation understood as a disturbance in a sliding mode control of dielectric charge
(2015-07-03)
Article
Open AccessThe purpose of this paper is to show that the charge induced by radiation in a dielectric on which a sigma–delta control of dielectric charge is implemented, can be seen as a disturbance in a sliding mode controller. ... -
Circuit per a la detecció del moviment d'objectes de color
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-06-15)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessEl treball consisteix a dissenyar i construir un sistema electrònic que detecti la proximitat d’objectes i els seus moviments. El sistema també mostrarà informació sobre els components RGB dels objectes acostats i la ... -
Comparative analysis of metaheuristic algorithms for extracting electrical parameters of PV modules
(2023)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper presents a comparison of various metaheuristic algorithms used for extracting electrical parameters from specific photovoltaic (PV) panels. The focus lies on assessing and comparing the efficiency of eight chosen ... -
Cross-talk extraction from mask layout
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1993)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe principles of an automated cross-talk extractor from the mask-level description of a CMOS integrated circuit are detailed. The physical extraction principles, the techniques for parasitic coupling evaluation and modeling, ...
