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 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 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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Desarrollo de una herramienta de generación de imágenes para la actualización de sistemas operativos para tarjetas SIM
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-08)
Bachelor thesis
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Desarrollo de una plataforma digital basada en FPGA para la corrección de anomalías en transmisores con alimentación dinámica
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010-07-23)
Bachelor thesis
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Desenvolupament d'un sistema basat en microcontrolador PIC per la supervisió preventiva i correctiva de trams de vies.
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008-07-29)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open Access
Covenantee: Transports Metropolitans de BarcelonaLa circulació dels trens a les línies de Metro de Barcelona es automàtica, podent funcionar sense necessitat de que els conductors hagin de prendre decisions durant la circulació del tren. Perquè això sigui possible han ... -
Design and Characterization of Reliable RF-MEMS
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-07-07)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open AccessThis thesis present a SPDT (Single Pole Double Throw) in Ku-Band designed for space applications. It was developed in LAAS-CNRS (Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes) from February 2009 to July 2009 in ... -
Design and fabrication of a Planar Diffusion Chamber for bio-chemical applications
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-07-13)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open AccessEnglish: Diffusion processes of molecules pretend to be the most important tool of communication between nanometric devices, thereby theoretical and practical studies of these processes became essential in the development ... -
Design of a broadband CMOS RF power amplifier to establish device-circuit aging correlations
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper presents the design of a Broadband CMOS RF Power Amplifier, suitable to be stressed at circuit level but with the possibility to be measured both at circuit and at device level. It allows establishing a relation ...
