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  • The future roadmap of in-vehicle network processing: a HW-centric (R-)evolution 

    González Mariño, Ángela; Fons, Francesc; Moreno Aróstegui, Juan Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-06-27)
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    The automotive industry is undergoing a deep revolution. With the race towards autonomous driving, the amount of technologies, sensors and actuators that need to be integrated in the vehicle increases exponentially. This ...
  • Fifteen years of wireless sensors for balance assessment in neurological disorders 

    Zampogna, Alessandro; Mileti, Ilaria; Palermo, Eduardo; Celletti, Claudia; Paoloni, Marco; Manoni, Alessandro; Mazzetta, Ivan; Costa, Gloria Dalla; Pérez López, Carlos; Camerota, Filippo; Leocani, Letizia; Cabestany Moncusí, Joan; Irrera, Fernanda; Suppa, Antonio (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-06-07)
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    Balance impairment is a major mechanism behind falling along with environmental hazards. Under physiological conditions, ageing leads to a progressive decline in balance control per se. Moreover, various neurological ...
  • A test setup for the characterization of Lorentz-force MEMS magnetometers 

    Sánchez Chiva, José María; Valle Fraga, Juan José; Fernández Martínez, Daniel; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi (2021-09-13)
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    Lorentz-force MEMS magnetometers are interesting candidates for the replacement of magnetometers in consumer electronics products. Plenty of works in the literature propose MEMS magnetometers, their readout circuits and ...
  • Manufacturing Issues of BEOL CMOS-MEMS Devices 

    Valle Fraga, Juan José; Fernández Martínez, Daniel; Gibrat, Olivier; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-06-07)
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    In this paper we present a comprehensive report on the issues found during the manufacturing of high-yield CMOS-MEMS sensors based on vapor-phase hydrogen fluoride (vapor- HF ) oxide etching. During the study we have ...
  • A new beam synchronous processing architecture with a fixed frequency processing clock: application to transient beam loading compensation in the CERN SPS machine 

    Galindo Guarch, Francisco Javier; Baudrenghien, Philippe; Moreno Aróstegui, Juan Manuel (2021-02-01)
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    New projects being implemented or planned at CERN, such as the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU), the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) or the Future Circular Collider (FCC), motivate the change of several architectural paradigms in ...
  • A cmos-mems beol 2-axis lorentz-force magnetometer with device-level offset cancellation 

    Sánchez Chiva, José María; Valle Fraga, Juan José; Fernández, Daniel; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi (2020-10-19)
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    Lorentz-force Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) magnetometers have been proposed as a replacement for magnetometers currently used in consumer electronics market. Being MEMS devices, they can be manufactured in the ...
  • Self-controlled 4-transistor low-power min-max current selector 

    Madrenas Boadas, Jordi; Fernández Martínez, Daniel; Cosp Vilella, Jordi; Martínez Alvarado, Luis Arturo; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Vidal López, Eva María; Villar Piqué, Gerard (2009-10)
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    Four cross-coupled MOS transistors operating as switches implement a very compact, fast, low-power and precise minimum and maximum current selector. Local positive feedback allows the circuit to work without the need of ...
  • Synchronizable compact CMOS oscillator 

    Villar Piqué, Gerard; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Vidal López, Eva María; Cosp Vilella, Jordi; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi (2005-01)
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    This letter describes the design and implementation of a synchronizable compact CMOS oscillator. By using a fully differential topology, a reduction in area occupancy together with an improved robustness in front of on-chip ...
  • Synchronization of nonlinear electronic oscillators for neural computation 

    Cosp Vilella, Jordi; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Vidal López, Eva María; Villar Piqué, Gerard (2004-09)
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    This paper deals with coupled oscillators as the building blocks of a bioinspired computing paradigm and their implementation. In order to accomplish the low-power and fast-processing requirements of autonomous applications, ...
  • An architecture for real-time arbitrary and variable sampling rate conversion with application to the processing of harmonic signals 

    Galindo Guarch, Francisco Javier; Baudrenghien, Philippe; Moreno Aróstegui, Juan Manuel (2020-05)
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    The paper presents a new solution for sampling rate conversion and processing of harmonic signals with known but possibly varying fundamental frequency. This problem is commonly found in particle accelerators, for tracking ...
  • LEGION-based image segmentation by means of spiking neural networks using normalized synaptic weights implemented on a compact scalable neuromorphic architecture 

    Sánchez Rivera, Giovanny; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi; Cosp Vilella, Jordi (2019-01-01)
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    LEGION (Locally Excitatory, Globally Inhibitory Oscillator Network) topology has demonstrated good capabilities in scene segmentation applications. However, the implementation of LEGION algorithm requires machines with ...
  • Posture transition analysis with barometers: contribution to accelerometer-based algorithms 

    Rodríguez Martín, Daniel Manuel; Samà Monsonís, Albert; Pérez López, Carlos; Català Mallofré, Andreu; Cabestany Moncusí, Joan (2018-10-15)
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    Posture transitions are one of the most mechanically demanding tasks and are useful to evaluate the motor status of patients with motor impairments, frail individuals or the elderly, among others. So far, wearable inertial ...

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