EPIC - Energy Processing and Integrated Circuits
Eficiència energètica en computació, comunicació i infraestructures (xarxes de sensors, processadors multi-nucli, constel·lacions de satèl·lits petits, xarxes de distribució energètica), mitjançant arquitectures, circuits i dispositius de gestió d'energia, des de circuits integrats de gestió d'energia, captació d'energia i transferència sense fil d'energia, passant per models i control de sistemes de conversió eficient de potència, fins a sistemes d'energia renovables i microxarxes.
Our research activity has hitherto been focused on energy processing and integrated circuits, encompassing CMOS technologies for future-generation multicore processors and RF transmitters, as well as new devices for exploring ultimate energy density limits. These activities have been driven by ultra-low-power battery-operated devices that are now migrating into energy-harvesting-enabled wireless sensor networks and pushing down scalability limits through the concurrence of new devices (More than Moore, gallium nitride or GaN and graphene), circuit and system perspectives with the aim of a transversal impact to various applications, namely, downscaled portable terminals and distributed sensors for wireless monitoring and practically all applications within the integrated systems and circuits area. New challenges include wireless networks-on-chip for next-generation many-core processors for high-performance computing, nano-satellite swarms, wireless energy transfer and smart grids.
Our research activity has hitherto been focused on energy processing and integrated circuits, encompassing CMOS technologies for future-generation multicore processors and RF transmitters, as well as new devices for exploring ultimate energy density limits. These activities have been driven by ultra-low-power battery-operated devices that are now migrating into energy-harvesting-enabled wireless sensor networks and pushing down scalability limits through the concurrence of new devices (More than Moore, gallium nitride or GaN and graphene), circuit and system perspectives with the aim of a transversal impact to various applications, namely, downscaled portable terminals and distributed sensors for wireless monitoring and practically all applications within the integrated systems and circuits area. New challenges include wireless networks-on-chip for next-generation many-core processors for high-performance computing, nano-satellite swarms, wireless energy transfer and smart grids.
Collections in this community
-
Articles de revista [83]
-
Presentacions [1]
Recent Submissions
-
Automated chlorine dosage in a simulated drinking water treatment plant: a real case study
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-06-11)
Article
Open AccessIn this paper, we present a simulator of a drinking water treatment plant. The model of the plant was based in hydraulic and matter transportation models. In order to not introduce more inaccuracies in the simulation, the ... -
Simulating distributed small satellite networks: A model-based tool tailored to decentralized resource-constrained systems
(2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe conception of new Earth-observing satellite systems is urging the development of tools that can assist engineering teams in their design, validation and testing pursuits. Large-scale Distributed Satellite Systems (DSS) ... -
System-level autonomous decision-making for earth observation satellite systems
(2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyAutonomous operational strategies for Earth Observation systems are called to address the challenging task of coordinating multiple sensing assets to deliver very short revisit times and near-real-time access to data. ... -
Mission and system architecture for an operational network of earth observation satellite nodes
(2019)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyOver the next few years, Europe will take important steps towards implementing the architecture of the Copernicus Space Component for Earth Observation (EO), fulfilling the needs of stakeholders concerned with land monitoring, ... -
Scalability of network capacity in nanonetworks powered by energy harvesting
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper provides design guidelines in the feasibility and deployability of nanonetworks powered by energy harvesting techniques throughout bounding the per node throughput capacity as a function of the number of nodes. ... -
Graphene-enabled wireless networks-on-chip
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyGraphene-enabled Wireless Communications (GWC) advocate for the use of graphene-based plasmonic antennas, or graphennas, which take advantage of the plasmonic properties of graphene to radiate electromagnetic waves in the ... -
Initial MAC exploration for graphene-enabled wireless networks-on-chip
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn the upcoming many-core era, chip multiprocessor architectures will be composed of hundreds or even thousands of processor cores, which interact among them through an on-chip communication platform for synchronization ... -
A vertical methodology for the design space exploration of graphene-enabled wireless communications
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyGraphene-based antennas (or shortly named, graphennas) are envisaged to be the cornerstone of novel wireless communication systems by virtue of their reduced size, in the micrometer range, and an expected radiation frequency ... -
Fundamentals of graphene-enabled wireless on-chip networking
(Springer, 2017)
Part of book or chapter of book
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe book presents the state of art in the emerging field of molecular and nanoscale communication. It gives special attention to fundamental models, and advanced methodologies and tools used in the field. It covers a wide ... -
Graphene-based terahertz antennas for area-constrained applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
Conference report
Open AccessGraphene is enabling a plethora of applications in a wide range of fields due to its unique electrical, mechanical, and optical properties. In the realm of wireless communications, graphene shows great promise for the ... -
El proyecto EDINSOST: inclusión de los ODS en la educación superior
(2017-11)
Article
Open AccessEn este artículo se presenta el primer resultado del proyecto EDINSOST: un mapa de la competencia Sostenibilidad para el Grado de Ingeniería Informática, fácilmente adaptable a cualquier titulación de Grado en Ingeniería ... -
Approach to the modeling of LDO-assisted DC-DC voltage linear regulators
(Universidad de Málaga, 2017)
Conference report
Open AccessThis paper presents the design of a LDO-assisted DC-DC converters in Cadence Virtuoso based on a 350-nm CMOS technology. This kind of voltage regulators consists of a switching converter together with a classic or LDO (low ...
RSS 1.0