2011

Some applications of wireless sensor networks (WSN) require long-term deployments and vanishingly-small unit volumes to make them cost effective and unobtrusive. Energy- and area-efficient circuits, as well as eliminatin

There is a growing interest in using CMOS technology in the mm-Wave and terahertz frequency ranges for applications such as spectroscopy, imaging, compact range radars, and remote sensing [1]. Tunable signal sources are

Despite the aggressive scaling of silicon-based IC’s over the past few decades, the transistor characteristics have yet to improve so that the ‘THz’-range (~300GHz-to-3THz) circuits can be effectively designed using the

This paper presents a 120GHz fully integrated 65nm low power (LP) CMOS transmitter that achieves data rates above 10Gb/s. At these high frequencies an extremely high bandwidth is available. This allows multi-gigabit-per-

is one of the promising candidates for realizing a CMOS radar IC [1-3]. Range and velocity resolutions of the FMCW radar are determined by the bandwidth and period of triangular modulation [4]. A short-range measurement

Taiwan 2 This paper presents a wireless non-contact sensor that enables detection, localization, and monitoring of people along with their specific features such as gait and cardiopulmonary activities. These types of sen

2 imec - Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 3imec, Leuven, Belgium An important drawback of current biopotential monitoring systems is their dependence on ge

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, National Chi Nan University, Puli, Taiwan, 3 University of California, Los Angeles, CA 2 Achieving a higher color depth for LCD drivers requires a higher DAC resolution and

interfaces has provided hope for patients with spinal-cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease, and other debilitating neurological conditions [1], and has boosted interest in electronic recording of cortical signals. State-of

Ulm, Germany, 3Intelligent Medical Implants, Bonn, Germany Improving communication with implantable systems remains an important topic of research due to the limitations in power dissipation and the simultaneous need for

vitro arrays reached more than 10000 sites [1], implantable systems, e.g. for retinal [2,3] or cortical stimulation [4], have not exceeded above 1600 [5] – which was achieved with a reduction to basic functionality and w

Natesh Parashurama1, Sanjiv S. Gambhir1, Bruce A. Wooley1 1 2 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA Optical molecular imaging is emerging as a powerful preclinical research tool for i

Yejoong Kim, Gyouho Kim, David Fick, Daeyeon Kim, Mingoo Seok, Kensall Wise, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness, affecting 67 million people wo

Day-Uey Li3, Matthew W Fishburn1, Yuki Maruyama1, David Stoppa4, Fausto Borghetti4, Marek Gersbach5, Robert K Henderson3, Edoardo Charbon1 1 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, STMicroelectronics, Edi

light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) achieve high optical performance with excellent contrast ratio and large dynamic range at low power consumption. The direct light emission from the OLED enables small devices without additio

amount of attention as a very desirable display due to superior characteristics such as its wide viewing angle, fast response, thinness, and low power consumption. Among various driving techniques for AMOLED displays, th

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 5 KHLim, Diepenbeek, Belgium 3 We introduce a microprocessor made by organic thin-film transistors processed directly onto flexible plastic foil. This is a direct realization of a microprocess

Florian Letzkus1, Harald Richter1, Hagen Klauk3, Joachim N. Burghartz1,2 1 Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS), Stuttgart, Germany, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 Max Planck Institute for

C. Daniel Frisbie1, Chris H. Kim1 1 2 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Optomec, St. Paul, MN Organic thin-film-transistors (OTFTs) are drawing much attention as they have attributes such as structural flexibilit

Romain Gwoziecki1, Isabelle Chartier1, Romain Coppard1, Christophe Serbutoviez1, Lidia Maddiona2, Enzo Fontana2, Antonino Scuderi2 1 CEA-LITEN, Grenoble, France, STMicroelectronics, Catania, Italy 2 Drastic efforts have

Filipa Duarte1, Arjan Breeschoten1, Jos Huisken1, Jan Stuyt1, Harmke de Groot1, Francisco Barat2, Johan David2, Johan Van Ginderdeuren2 1 imec - Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, NXP Semiconductors, Leuven, Belgi

Ronald Nerlich1, Marcus Herzog1, Ralph Ledwa1, Christian Sichert1, Volker Rzehak1, Priya Thanigai2, Bjoern Oliver Eversmann1 1 Texas Instruments, Freising, Germany, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX 2 In recent years energy-

Alexandre Valentian2, Marc Belleville2, Christine Raynaud1, Damien Croain1, Pascal Urard1 1 STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France, CEA-LETI-MINATEC, Grenoble, France 2 A Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codec circuit is imp

Flip-flops (FF) typically consume more than 50% of random-logic power in an SoC chip, due to their redundant transition of internal nodes, when the input and the output are in the same state. Several low-power techniques

University of Freiburg - IMTEK, Freiburg, Germany, HSG-IMIT, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany Sub-threshold circuits have recently gained attention mainly due to the possibility of operating at the minimum energy per oper

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Recently, aggressive voltage scaling was shown as an important technique in achieving highly energy-efficient circuits. Specifically, scaling Vd

health care and consumer electronic applications around the human body. There are 3 PHY schemes discussed in the IEEE 802.15.6 Task Group for WBAN standardization [1]: ultra-wide-band (UWB) PHY, narrow-band (NB) PHY, and

Recently, a wearable body-sensor network realized continuous sleep monitoring by ExG (EEG, EMG, EOG, and ECG) extraction from a sleeper’s face [1]. At least 14 sensors were placed on the face, and were managed by a netwo

The increase in the diabetes population makes glucose monitoring a pressing demand for clinical and continuous use. Non-invasive sensing would allow a painless, convenient solution compared to traditional skin-piercing g

UWB technology (3.1 to 10.6GHz) allows new applications for both data communication and sensing (FCC, reference in [1]). Due to their potential in terms of resolution and extremely low level of EIRP spectral density (< -

Dominique Coquillat2, Maciej Sakowicz2, Jean-Pierre Rostaing1, Michaël Tchagaspanian1, Benoît Giffard1, Wojciech Knap2 1 2 CEA-LETI-MINATEC, Grenoble, France, Université Montpellier 2 -CNRS UMR, Montpellier, France Terah

C-M. Yang1, Y-Y. Chen2, H-Y. Lai3, J-W. Lin4, Q. Fang5 1 National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 4 National Taiw

Fig. 2.7.5, left). The optimal configurations are determined and stored during post-silicon testing. Each time when the sensor node processor wakes up, it computes time by calculating the elapsed time using the stored pe

Very accurate local clocks play a fundamental role in modern communication and navigation applications. High-precision references enable fast communication data rates, while in navigation they allow longer holdover opera

Hideki Osone1, Samir Parikh1, Subodh Reddy1, Toshiyuki Shibuya1, Yasushi Umezawa2, William W. Walker1 1 Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Sunnyvale, CA, Fujitsu Laboratories, Kawasaki, Japan 2 In multi-Gb/s wireline commu

Jen Dong, Chintan Desai, Hairong Gao, Monica Garcia, Gary Hom, Tony Huynh, Hiroshi Kimura, Ruchi Kothari, Lijun Li, Cathy Liu, Scott Lowrie, Kathy Ling, Amaresh Malipatil, Ram Narayan, Tom Prokop, Chaitanya Palusa, Anil

Clemenz Portmann3, Neil Bulman1, Eugenia Cordero Crespo1, Peter Hearne1, Patty Huang3, Ben Kerr1, Pulkit Khandelwal1, Franz Kuhlmann2, Shaun Lytollis1, Joaquim Machado1, Casey Morrison2, Scott Morrison2, Shahriar Rabii3,

Marcus Van Ierssel1, Afshin Rezayee2, Angus McLaren1, Chris Holdenried1, Jennifer Pham1, Eric So1, David Cassan1, Saman Sadr1 1 Snowbush-Gennum, Toronto, Canada, now with SecureKey, Toronto, Canada 2 The bandwidth limita

receivers is becoming a necessity as the data rates increase without channel improvements. Adaptive equalizers can be implemented using data-aided or non-data-aided schemes [1], with the latter requiring less area and po

To ensure the signal integrity over a lossy channel, an analog equalizer and/or a decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) [2-6] are widely adopted in high-speed data transmission. An adaptive analog equalizer or adaptive DFE i

As the data rate requirements for many wireline applications increase, channel bandwidth limitation becomes a critical problem in serial interfaces. Equalizers are often used as a solution for this problem. In addition,

EMI, which has become a serious problem in high-speed systems. In applications such as serial links, display drivers and consumer electronics, SSCG is essential or strongly recommended. Control options such as frequency

integration and reducing bill of material (BOM) for GSM/GPRS/EDGE cellular systems. In modern cellular phones, transmit SAW filters have been largely eliminated with innovative TX architecture and circuits [1] while rece

Torkel Arnborg1, Peter Caputa1, Staffan Ek2, Lin Fan1, Henrik Fredriksson1, Fabien Garrigues3, Henrik Geis1, Hans Hagberg1, Joel Hedestig1, Hu Huang3, Yevgeniy Kagan3, Niklas Karlsson1, Henrik Kinzel1, Thomas Mattsson1,

Alberto Cicalini1, Sankaran Aniruddhan1, Rahul Apte2, Frederic Bossu1, Ojas Choksi1, Dan Filipovic1, Kunal Godbole1, Tsai-Pi Hung1, Christos Komninakis1, David Maldonado1, Chiewcharn Narathong1, Babak Nejati1, Deirdre O’

Bernard Tenbroek1, Jon Strange1, Walid Ali-Ahmad2 1 3 MediaTek, West Malling, United Kingdom, 2MediaTek, Singapore, Singapore, MediaTek, Cambridge, United Kingdom The spectrum allocated for the operation of cellular serv

In FDD systems such as WCDMA, strong TX leakage presented at RX imposes stringent RX out-of-band (OOB) IIP3 and IIP2 requirements in addition to low noise figure (NF) requirement, usually necessitating an inter-stage SAW

receive band due to the finite duplexer TX to RX isolation. If this noise is not low enough, a SAW filter is needed before the Power Amplifier to preserve the RX sensitivity. Out-of-band noise is also an important concer

Jose Moreira1, Hans Geltinger1, Timo Gossmann1, Peter Pfann1, Alexander Belitzer1, Thomas Bauernfeind3 1 Infineon Technologies, Neubiberg, Germany, Infineon Technologies, Villach, Austria, 3DICE, Linz, Austria 2 The cons

of the direct upconversion type. This architecture is versatile but requires calibration of the imbalance in its quadrature branches and DC offset at its inputs, and it is vulnerable to mixer noise. We believe it consume