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David A. Horsley2, Bernhard E. Boser1 University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2University of California, Davis, CA 1 Optical 3D imagers for gesture recognition suffer from large size and high power consumption. Their per

Amin Nikoozadeh1, Omer Oralkan3, Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub1 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Texas Instruments, Santa Clara, CA, 3 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 1 2 3D ultrasound imaging is becoming increasi

bolometer’s NETD. Bertrand Dupont, Antoine Dupret, Sebastien Becker, Antoine Hamelin, Fabrice Guellec, Pierre Imperinetti, Wilfried Rabaud To compensate for the remaining FPN, offset pre-correction (OPC) is implemented:

resolution and good channel-to-channel uniformity are required in column-driver ICs. In conventional column-driver ICs, the resistor-DAC (R-DAC) architecture has been generally used due to its uniform characteristic, bec

mobile products on the basis of their high quality of touch features, as well as superior visibility and durability [1-5]. Capacitive TSPs can be classified into selfcapacitance [1,2] or mutual-capacitance [3-5] types, a

interfaces, such as multi-touch, pinch zoom-in/out gestures, thus expanding the smartphone market. However, capacitive touch-screen technology still suffers from performance degradation like a low frame scan rate and poo

Infineon Technologies, Villach, Austria 1 2 This paper presents a micropower current-sensing system (CSS) for battery monitoring, which consists of a calibrated shunt resistor, a ΔΣ ADC, and a dynamic bandgap reference (

Now at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 1 2 Photoplethysmographic biosensing has been of recent interest, since it provides electrode-free operation for continuous health-monitoring applications [1]. T

Klaus Reimann1, Kofi A.A. Makinwa2 NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 1 On-chip capacitors C1,2,3 must be trimmed to Cm to maximize carrier suppression

in a broad range of vehicles [1]. The demand for lower cost and higher integration continues to increase the performance requirements for many of the system’s components. In particular, the trend towards placing the Iner

Thermal sensors are used in modern microprocessors to provide information for: 1) throttling at the maximum temperature of operation, and 2) fan regulation at temperatures down to 50°C. Today’s microprocessors are therma

This paper describes an energy-efficient CMOS temperature sensor intended for use in RFID tags. The sensor achieves an inaccuracy of ±0.15°C (3σ) over the military temperature range (-55 to 125°C) and dissipates only 27n

Shouvik Mukherjee2, Carl Arft2, Jin-Tae Kim2, Niveditha Arumugam2, Pavan Gupta2, Sassan Tabatabaei2, Sudhakar Pamarti4, Haechang Lee2, Fari Assaderaghi2 Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab

National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA 1 2 Despite the increasing use of ICs at very high temperatures (>150°C) in automotive and industrial applications, sensing such temperatures is still mostly done with discrete the

increasingly harsh environments such as acid containing gases in vehicle exhausts or exhaust gas recirculation. State-of-the-art gel protection for sensing elements and their electronics is reaching its limit. A circuit’

compliant membrane and the rigid backplate is proportional to the air (acoustic) pressure. If the charge Q at the plates remains constant, there is a linear relationship between the voltage across the plates and the dist

In precision mechatronic systems, such as wafer steppers, the position of critical mechanical components must be dynamically stabilized with sub-nanometer precision. This can be achieved by a servo loop consisting of a d

Robert Bosch, Palo Alto, CA 1 2 Precision accelerometers are used in a variety of automotive applications, navigation systems, and low-level vibration-monitoring systems. Currently, these sensors are factory-calibrated t

United Kingdom 2 Short optical pulses are required for diagnostic techniques in life sciences such as fluorescence lifetime imaging, which can be used for quantitative detection of ion concentrations, oxygen and fluoresc

which allows the resonances of the element to be efficiently damped and permits, for example, an open-loop readout of the element. If the accelerometer is required to attain very low Brownian noise levels or packaged tog

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, OK 2 The frequency reference oscillator is a pivotal block in modern radio transceivers. Currently, modern transceivers rely on off-chip low

L.Richard Carley1, Jonathan C. Jensen2 1 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Intel, Hillsboro, OR 3 Intel, Haifa, Israel 2 Multi-radio (3G/4G/GPS) mobile communication devices impose stringent requirements (<1ppm)

based on the thermal diffusivity of silicon. Its digital output is insensitive to both process spread and packaging stress and is a near-linear function of absolute temperature. The sensor’s accuracy is mainly limited by

Salvatore Drago1,3, Domine M. W, Leenaerts1, Bram Nauta3 1 NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven, Netherlands Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands 3 University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands 2 This paper describe

Kwok Ping Ng, Bo Gao, Howard Cam Luong, Amine Bermak, Mansun Chan, Wing-Hung Ki, Chi-Ying Tsui, Matthew Ming-Fai Yuen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China A system-on-chip passive UHF RFID tag

Markus Strobel, Joachim N. Burghartz Institute for Microelectronics, Stuttgart, Germany Challenges in the design of solid-state imagers for industrial measurement and control include: high image resolution, wide temperat

Real-time 3D imaging has reached a state of development where several fields of application are possible, such as factory automation, consumer electronics, security, and robotics. The first commercial products have alrea

Pirmin Rombach1, Lars J. Stenberg1, Pietro Andreani4, Erik Bruun2 Pulse MEMS, Roskilde, Denmark Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark 3 Pulse Advanced Acoustics, Amsterdam, Netherlands 4 Lund University, Lund,

University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy 2 Current readout has been a known technique since the inception of electronic sensors and is widely used, for example, in radiation detectors, impedance spectroscopy, and mech

Impedance measurements play a fundamental role in biotechnology, serving both as an investigation tool and as a direct detection technique. Tracking impedance over time is extensively used for spatial monitoring, imaging

The widespread use of capacitive MEMS vibratory gyroscopes is powerfully driven by low cost [1]; this is partly determined by factors such as die area and the number of necessary external components. Important properties

Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil 3 Holst Centre, Eindhoven, Netherlands 2 A major contributor to the total cost of precision CMOS temperature senso

Intel, Hillsboro, OR In the multicore era, thermal/power management is essential in order to meet platform-performance and energy-efficiency requirements. Accurate temperature measurements are required to reliably maximi

Miniaturizing its components, power source, sensors and actuators, has proven challenging. As a consequence, few autonomous microrobots have been reported until recently [1-3]. These are simple mobile platforms, without

U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 3 R.M.A., Brussels, Belgium 2 Energy harvesters [1] power energy-autonomous wireless sensor systems by converting ambient environmental energy into electrical energy. Thermoelectric generators (

¹University of California, Davis, CA ²Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA Energy harvesting systems such as self-powered wireless sensor nodes rely on a diverse set of energy sources in their continuously changing envi

Energy harvesting is an emerging technology with applications to handheld, portable and implantable electronics. Harvesting ambient vibration energy through piezoelectric (PE) means is a popular energy harvesting techniq

Wireless powering of implanted devices obviates the need for batteries, which must be periodically replaced and constitute a health risk. There has long been an assumption that efficient wireless transfer of power to bio

g. autonomous sensor systems (Fig. 17.4.4). Therefore a periodic system wake up is implemented, controlled by an on-chip oscillator and a programmable timing network. To generate a constant output voltage of 3.3V for dut

diseases in everyday life, but their large form factors or battery power limitations still remain to be solved. Security and/or requirements of interference resilience are stringent for health monitoring, and therefore,

biomedical applications. Although in vitro analytical and diagnostic tools have been the focus of such technologies, in vivo therapeutic and sensing applications have received significant attention in the past few years.

Thomas Lentsch1, Rainer Matischek1, Josef Prainsack1, Wolfgang Pribyl2, Horst Theuss3, Werner Weber4 Infineon, Graz, Austria Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria 3 Infineon, Regensburg, Germany 4 Infineon, Munich

Over the past twenty-five years, silicon CMOS technology has firmly established itself as the dominant platform in the microelectronics industry. This has resulted in many recent initiatives to fabricate CMOS-based micro

Raster-scan architectures are mostly oriented toward quality image reproduction [1], but they do not meet some basic requirements,that are crucial for battery-operated sensors for sensor network applications, such as low

integration of sensors and/or MEMS with ICs for many purposes, including enhancing the performance of the ICs [1]. Post-packaging or post-assembly in-system adjustment of analog circuits is increasing in industrial impor

There has been increasing demand for low-cost small-size highprecision MEMS accelerometers with micro-gravity resolution at very low frequencies in applications ranging from GPS-augmented inertial navigation to distance

Etsuji Ogawa, Shinji Miyano, Tomohiro Saito, Tatsuya Ohguro, Takeshi Miyagi, Yoshiaki Sugizaki, Nobuaki Otsuka, Hideki Shibata, Yoshiaki Toyoshima The IBA operation described above is realized by a circuit whose block di

floors, mode matching is necessary to moderate interface power dissipation. Mode matching increases sense displacements by the sense mode quality factor and thereby relaxes the precision requirements of the front-end, bu

current and the capability of achieving high sensitivity, are emphasized in ultra-low-power applications. In [1], representing the current state-of-the-art in low-power 3-axis micro-accelerometers, capacitance-to-voltage

This paper describes a CMOS temperature-to-digital converter (TDC) based on thermal diffusivity sensing, which is an interesting alternative to conventional band-gap temperature sensors because the thermal diffusivity of