2015

High-performance op-amps in a switched-capacitor pipelined ADC consume high power to meet accuracy and speed requirements. This is aggravated by the decrease in intrinsic transistor gain and voltage headroom in nanoscale

NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 1 2 Successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have generated a great deal of interest in the past several years. While most of the recent w

on data converters. To enable base stations with multi-carrier functionality, ADCs in the receive path need high sample rates with superior SFDR across 100s of MHz and several decades of input signal power. Furthermore,

IMS CHIPS, Stuttgart, Germany 1 3 Hybrid Systems-in-Foil (HySiF) are becoming important for wearable electronics, medical diagnostics and flexible displays, which require mechanical flexibility or adaptivity as well as l

Sigurd Wagner, James C. Sturm, Naveen Verma Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Large-area electronics (LAE) enables the formation of a large number of sensors capable of spanning dimensions on the order of square meters

Ashutosh K. Tripathi2, Jan Genoe1,3, Gerwin Gelinck2, Paul Heremans1,3 imec, Heverlee, Belgium, Holst Centre / TNO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 3 KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 1 2 Our goal is to create thin low-cost flexibl

Speaker, Temperature Detector, and 12V Organic Complementary FET Circuits Hiroshi Fuketa1,2, Masamune Hamamatsu1,2, Tomoyuki Yokota1,2, Wakako Yukita1,2, Teruki Someya1,2, Tsuyoshi Sekitani2,3, Makoto Takamiya1,2, Takao

promoted NEMS sensors as viable and highly sensitive candidates for gravimetric applications such as gas sensing, mass spectrometry and biochemical analysis [1]. The high sensitivity to mass is related to the small dimen

Korea 1 2 CMOS sensors using nanomaterials on the surface are very effective for early detection of diseases. Among the nanomaterials, carbon nanotube (CNT) is an ideal biosensor material since it has a small diameter (~

response power delivery systems has been growing in high-voltage industrial electronics applications. Gallium Nitride (GaN) FETs showing a superior figure of merit (Rds,ON X Qg) in comparison with silicon FETs [1] can en

Low phase noise oscillators are essential building blocks in the front end of all communication systems. With the continuous demand for higher data rates and reduced size, weight, and power consumption, significant resea

Takahiko Ishizu1, Yoshinori Ieda1, Naoto Yamade1, Hidekazu Miyairi1, Masayuki Sakakura1, Tomoaki Atsumi1, Yutaka Shionoiri1, Kiyoshi Kato1, Takashi Okuda1, Yoshitaka Yamamoto1, Masahiro Fujita2, Jun Koyama1, Shunpei Yama

next-generation mainstream wearable devices. However, previous HMD systems [1] have had limited application, primarily due to their lacking a smart user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). Since HMD systems have a s

Mayu Okumura, Manabu Nishiyama, Tadakazu Nomura, Kazushige Oma, Nobuhiro Sato, Moriyasu Banno, Hiroo Hayashi, Takashi Miyamori Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan Image recognition technologies have gained prominence in a variety o

Microwatt object recognition is being considered for many applications, such as autonomous micro-air-vehicle (MAV) navigation, a vision-based wake-up or user authentication for the smartphones, and a gesture recognition-

Embedded sensing systems conventionally perform A-to-D conversion followed by signal analysis. In many applications, the analysis of interest is inference (e.g., classification), but the sensor signals involved are too c

University of California, Los Angeles, CA Compressive sensing (CS) is a promising solution for low-power on-body sensors for 24/7 wireless health monitoring [1]. In such an application, a mobile data aggregator performin

Han-Liang Chou, Chih-Ming Wang, Tung-Hsing Wu, Hue-Min Lin, Yi-Hsin Huang, Chia-Yun Cheng, Ting-An Lin, Chun-Chia Chen, Yu-Kun Lin, Min-Hao Chiu, Wei-Cing Li, Sheng-Jen Wang, Yen-Chieh Lai, Ping Chao, Chih-Da Chien, Meng

The latest multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems have adopted iterative detection and decoding (IDD) to reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) required for a reliable transmission. An IDD system consists

which limit form factor. Widely-tunable low-noise RF active self-interference cancellation (SIC) (e.g. [1]) is a step towards enabling duplexers with reduced TX/RX isolation as well as adjacent-channel full duplex. Howev

In-band full-duplex (FD) wireless communication, i.e. simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency, in the same channel, promises up to 2x spectral efficiency, along with advantages in higher network lay

The demand for increased wireless data throughput in future wireless communication and the lack of available wide contiguous frequency bands inspire the concept of aggregating multiple frequency bands in a SoftwareDefine

Jeffrey Yuan1, John Wright1, Peter R. Kinget1 Columbia University, New York, NY, 2InterDigital Communications, Melville, NY 1 Mobile data traffic (driven by video over wireless, Internet of Things and machine-to-machine

Satoshi Kondo, Tomohiro Ueno, Nurul Fajri, Shoutarou Maki, Noriaki Nagashima, Yasuaki Takeuchi, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Ahmed Musa, Masaya Miyahara, Kenichi Okada, Akira Matsuzawa Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan T

Contrary to conventional continuous-wave communication technologies, Impulse-radio Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB) allows to have various functionalities such as communication, localization and radar by using a short pulse [1-4]

The demand for inexpensive and ubiquitous accurate motion-detection sensors for road safety, smart homes and robotics justifies the interest in single-chip mm-Wave radars: a high carrier frequency allows for a high angul

a very large voltage conversion ratio since the rectified US and EU mains have DC levels of 169V and 325V, respectively. Primary converters, such as flyback converters, use the winding ratio of the isolation transformer

Photovoltaic energy harvesting is an attractive method of developing battery-free systems for wireless sensors, biomedical electronics, and the internet of things (IoT). To obtain an energy-efficient system, low-power di

Switched-capacitor (SC) converters have shown significant promise for monolithic integration in a variety of mobile computing applications due to the relatively high energy-densities of modern capacitor technologies and

Thomas Toifl1, Christian Menolfi1, Lukas Kull1, Thomas Morf1, Marcel Kossel1, Matthias Brändli1, Pier Andrea Francese1 IBM Research, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, 2ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland 1 On-chip (or fully integrate

Sai-Weng Sin2, Seng-Pan U2,3, R. P. Martins2,4 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, University of Macau, Macao, China, 3Synopsys, Macao, China, 4 Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de L

near-threshold regions minimizes dynamic power consumption and achieves better efficiency [1]. This technique is widely used in energy-efficient applications, and is especially beneficial for wirelessly powered devices s

energy harvester (EMH) is an electromechanical mass-spring-damper system transducing electrical energy out of ambient vibrations. Resistive load matching [1] as well as maximum power point (MPP) AC-DC conversion [2] are

Compared with inductive DC-DC boost converters [1], the charge pump (CP) features no off-chip inductors and is suitable for monolithic low power energy harvesting applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) smart nodes

Stefano Stanzione1, Chris van Liempd1, Misato Nabeto2, Firat Refet Yazicioglu3, Chris Van Hoof1,4 Holst Centre / imec, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, OMRON, Kizugawa, Japan, 3imec, Heverlee, Belgium, 4 KU Leuven, Leuven, Be

Energy harvesting (EH) can be used in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) since the sensors can be powered by ambient energy in conjunction with rechargeable batteries to achieve near-perpetual operation [1-4]. One common so

video streaming and image data to be shared with friends while wearable smart sensors continuously monitor and send user’s physiological information to a smart watch. Body channel communication (BCC), which uses the huma

unobtrusively wearable autonomous sensors, large sensor arrays, or wireless self-powered sensors, require a minuscule form factor and very low power consumption. For example, the power available from a state-of-the-art 1

Patricia Gonzalez1, Aatmesh Shrivastava1, Abhishek Roy1, Kyle Craig1, Muhammad Faisal2, James Boley1, Seunghyun Oh2, Yanqing Zhang1, Divya Akella1, David D. Wentzloff2, Benton H. Calhoun1 University of Virginia, Charlott

Quantitative measurement of the complex relative dielectric permittivity (εr) of a material vs. frequency (i.e., dielectric spectroscopy, or DS) is a powerful monitoring technique that extracts key information on molecul

Po-Hung Kuo, Yen-Ming Huang, Wei-Che Hsieh, Shih-An Yu, Yufeng Jane Tseng , Wei-Cheng Tian, Si-Chen Lee, Shey-Shi Lu National Taiwan Univeristy, Taipei, Taiwan Existing non-invasive lung cancer diagnostic equipment has d

Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 1 2 Rapid blood test is essential to disease control, risk assessment and point-ofcare testing. Conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) requires several hours or

worldwide acknowledged to be the main leading cause of irreversible blindness. High intraocular pressure (IOP) is considered the leading risk factor for glaucoma. Lowering IOP continues to be the only evidence-based trea

Multichannel EEG seizure detection SoCs are widely used in medical practice and in research [1]-[3]. Due to huge variation in seizure patterns, patient-specific seizure detection is very crucial. [1], [2] presents 8-chan

based on EEG monitoring and transcranial electrical stimulation (tES)

John Bulzacchelli, Abhijeet Ardey, Benjamin Parker, Michael Beakes, Chris Baks, Clint Schow, Mounir Meghelli IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY Rapidly reconfigurable optical networks that keep the data in the optical do

Tomoyuki Akiyama1,3,4, Shigeaki Sekiguchi1,3,4, Hiroji Ebe1,3,4, Nobuhiro Imaizumi1, Tomoyuki Akahoshi1, Suguru Akiyama3, Shinsuke Tanaka3, Takasi Simoyama3, Ken Morito1,3,4, Takuji Yamamoto2, Toshihiko Mori1, Yoichi Koy

Modern SoC systems impose stringent requirements on on-chip clock generation and distribution. Ring-oscillator (RO) based injection-locked (IL) clocking has been used in the past [1] to provide a low-power, low-area and

Binhao Wang1, Zhongkai Wang4, Rui Bai2, Chin-Hui Chen3, Marco Fiorentino3, Patrick Yin Chiang2,4, Samuel Palermo1 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 3 Hewlett-Packard Labs,

Peter Verheyen1, Mark Ingels1, Hongtao Chen1,3, Jeroen De Coster1, Guy Lepage1, Brad Snyder1, Kristin De Meyer1,2, Michiel Steyaert2, Nicola Pavarelli4, Jun Su Lee4, Peter O’Brien4, Philippe Absil1, Joris Van Campenhout1