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Nanoscale MOSFET Modeling: Part 2: Using the Inversion Coefficient as the Primary Design Parameter

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Alessandro Pezzotta

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Comprehensive Noise Analysis in PPG Read-out Chains

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

2017

FM-UWB: Towards a Robust, Low-Power Radio for Body Area Networks

Christian Enz, John Farserotu, Vladimir Kopta

The Frequency Modulated Ultra-Wideband (FM-UWB) is known as a low-power, low-complexity modulation scheme targeting low to moderate data rates in applications such as wireless body area networks. In this paper, a thorough review of all FM-UWB receivers and ...

2017

Multi-modal Sensory Feedback System for Upper Limb Amputees

Christian Enz, Claudio Bruschini, Jörn Justiz, Huaiqi Huang, Tao Li

Providing sensory feedback for myoelectric prosthetic users can not only increase the manipulation ability but can also introduce a feeling of embodiment. Previous research has demonstrated the feasibility of providing mechanotactile or vibrotactile feedba ...

2017

Combining Structural and Timing Errors in Overclocked Inexact Speculative Adders

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Xun Jiao, Mattia Cacciotti, Yu Jiang

Worst-case design is used in IoT devices and high performance data centers to ensure reliability, leading to a power efficiency loss. Recently, approximate computing has been proposed to trade off accuracy for efficiency. In this paper, we use Inexact Spec ...

Ieee2017

Nanoscale MOSFET Modeling: Part 1: The Simplified EKV Model for the Design of Low-Power Analog Circuits

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Alessandro Pezzotta

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors; Capacitance Matching and non-Hysteretic Operation

Christian Enz, Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi, Francesco Bellando

This work experimentally demonstrates negative capacitance MOSFETs in hysteretic and non-hysteretic modes of operation. A PZT capacitor is externally connected to the gate of commercial nMOSFETs fabricated in 28nm CMOS technology to explore the negative ca ...

IEEE2017

Design and Applications of Approximate Circuits by Gate-Level Pruning

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Energy-efficiency is a critical concern for many systems, ranging from Internet of things objects and mobile devices to high-performance computers. Moreover, after 40 years of prosperity, Moore's law is starting to show its economic and technical limits. N ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Characterization of GigaRad Total Ionizing Dose and Annealing Effects on 28-nm Bulk MOSFETs

Christian Enz, Claudio Bruschini, Federico Faccio, Farzan Jazaeri, Chunmin Zhang, Alessandro Pezzotta

This paper investigates the radiation tolerance of 28-nm bulk n and pMOSFETs up to 1 Grad of total ionizing dose (TID). The radiation effects on this commercial 28-nm bulk CMOS process demonstrate a strong geometry dependence as a result of the complex int ...

2017

Efficient through-waveguide wireless power transfer for body area networks

Christian Enz, John Farserotu, Vladimir Kopta

2017

Analysis of power consumption in LC oscillators based on the inversion coefficient

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Alessandro Pezzotta

IEEE2017

Variability of Low Frequency Noise and mismatch in CORNER DOPED and standard CMOS technology

Matthias Bucher, Christian Enz, Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Farzan Jazaeri, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

IEEE2017

Negative Capacitance as Performance Booster for Tunnel FETs and MOSFETs: An Experimental Study

Christian Enz, Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi, Francesco Bellando

This letter reports for the first time a full experimental study of performance boosting of tunnel FETs (TFETs) and MOSFETs by negative capacitance (NC) effect. We discuss the importance of capacitance matching between a ferroelectric NC and a device capac ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

System and Method for Optimization of Digital Circuits with Timing and Behavior Co-Designed by Introduction and Exploitation of False Paths

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

A digital circuit including a signal path with a false path, whereby the signal path includes at least 3 logic instances, the digital circuit further including a logic monitoring element for monitoring a part of the digital circuit, and for outputting a cu ...

2017

Analysis of CMS noise reduction for 65 nm CIS

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Raffaele Capoccia

This work explores the combination of a downscaled technology with in-pixel source-follower (SF) optimization, a high column-level gain and an analog implementation of Correlated-Multiple-Sampling (CMS) for noise reduction of CIS readout chains. Transient ...

2017

Cryogenic Characterization of 28 nm Bulk CMOS Technology for Quantum Computing

Christian Enz, Claudio Bruschini, Farzan Jazaeri, Andrea Ruffino, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

This paper presents the first experimental investigation and physical discussion of the cryogenic behavior of a commercial 28 nm bulk CMOS technology. Here we extract the fundamental physical parameters of this technology at 300,77 and 4.2 K based on DC me ...

2017

Multi-modal Sensory Feedback System for Upper Limb Amputees

Christian Enz, Jörn Justiz, Huaiqi Huang, Tao Li

2017

Linear analysis of phase noise in LC oscillators in deep submicron CMOS technologies

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Raffaele Capoccia, Alessandro Pezzotta

IEEE2017

Total Ionizing Dose Effects on Analog Performance of 28 nm Bulk MOSFETs

Christian Enz, Claudio Bruschini, Farzan Jazaeri, Chunmin Zhang, Alessandro Pezzotta

This paper uses the simplified charge-based EKV MOSFET model for studying the effects of total ionizing dose (TID) on analog parameters and figures-of-merit (FoMs) of 28nm bulk MOSFETs. These effects are demonstrated to be fully captured by the five key pa ...

2017

An Approximate Zero IF FM-UWB Receiver for High Density Wireless Sensor Networks

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A low-power frequency modulated-ultra-wideband (FM-UWB) receiver for short-range communications, capable of simultaneously demodulating multiple FM-UWB signals located at the same frequency, is presented in this paper. The proposed receiver utilizes an "ap ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

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