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Reference current generator, and method of programming, adjusting and/or operating same

Maher Kayal, Michel Declercq, Marc Pastre, Marija Blagojevic

There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In a first aspect, the present invention is a technique and circuitry for reading data that is stored in memory cells. In one embodiment of this aspect, the present invention is a technique and ci ...

2005

Spice Simulation of Substrate Minority Carriers Propagation with Equivalent Electrical Circuit

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

This paper presents an equivalent electrical circuit for one dimensional substrate minority carriers spice simulation. The electrical circuit parameters are extracted from substrate meshing applying the finite difference method. This model is derived from ...

Ieee2014

A Hall sensor microsystem with integrated voltage and current references for continuous sensitivity calibration

Maher Kayal, Marc Pastre, Andrea Ajbl

This paper presents a Hall sensor microsystem output and sensitivity calibration targeting low drift (

IEEE2012

New error amplifier topology for Low Dropout Voltage regulators using compound OTA-OPAMP

Maher Kayal

Typical Low Dropout Voltage regulators (LDO), uses an error amplifier in a linear closed loop. The main advantage of such linear regulators is the low standby current due to the absence of switching. In addition, a fully integrated linear regulator with no ...

2007

A fully integrated solar battery charger

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Marc Pastre

This paper presents a solar charger ASIC for Nickelbased (NiCd or NiMH) batteries. The system is fully integrated and no external component is needed. The ASIC includes a voltage reference, a low-impedance switch, an oscillator, a poweron reset, and a digi ...

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Building Virtualization Engine: a Novel Approach Based on Discrete Event Simulation

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

This paper proposes and validates a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) engine for the Smart-Building (SB). It strives to virtualize the common elements found within it and integrates them transparently to an existing Building Management System (BMS), along wi ...

Ieee2016

Simulation, Analysis, and Verification of Substrate Currents for Layout Optimization of Smart Power ICs

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

Today circuit failures in Smart Power ICs due to substrate couplings are partially addressed during the circuit design phase. The state-of-the-art guidelines for the optimization of parasitic couplings provide mainly qualitative rules, which are difficult ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

A 20-bit dynamic range CMOS A/D converter for ionization chambers

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher

We present the design of a wide dynamic-range CMOS A/D interface circuit for ionization chambers, able to digitize input charge of both polarities over six decades, to operate in a radioactive environment, and foreseen working without calibration. The circ ...

IEEE2011

Switched-capacitor high-speed emulator for real-time fault location in electrical power systems

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, François Pierre Gaugaz

This research presents a discrete-time transmission line model based on the propagation of travelling waves. In this approach, the transmission line is emulated by means of many interconnected unit delay cells implemented with switched-capacitor (SC) circu ...

SPRINGER2018

System-Level Design Considerations for Carbon Nanotube Electromechanical Resonators

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Marc Pastre, Christian Kauth

Despite an evermore complete plethora of complex domain-specific semiempirical models, no succinct recipe for large-scale carbon nanotube electromechanical systems design has been formulated. To combine the benefits of these highly sensitive miniaturized m ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2013

Hybrid MOS-PN photodiode with positive feedback for pulse-modulation imaging

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Denis Sallin

A new type of CMOS compatible photodetector, exhibiting intrinsic light-to-time conversion, is proposed. Its main objective is to start the time-to-digital conversion directly at its output, thereby avoiding the cumbersome analog processing. The operation ...

Optical Society of America2014

Experimental Analysis of Lag Sources in Pinned Photodiodes

Maher Kayal

A measurement method is reported to distinguish the different mechanisms that lead to image lag in image sensors based on pinned photodiodes (PPDs). This new method can differentiate between the lag caused by a potential barrier or pocket and gate traps in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Toward a power system emulation using analog microelectronics solid state circuits

Maher Kayal, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel

An analog electronics emulation solution is investigated in order to assess the state of a power system facing dynamic phenomena such as the transient stability. Two approaches are studied: DC emulation and AC emulation. Both are intended to be integrated ...

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Capacitorless 1T DRAM sensing scheme with automatic reference generation

Maher Kayal, Michel Declercq, Marc Pastre, Serguei Okhonin

To perform a current sensing in capacitorless 1-transistor (IT) DRAMs on SOI, we have developed a sensing scheme with automatic reference generation. The reference current is generated by an adjustable current source. The electrical calibration of the refe ...

2006

Toward direct light-to-digital conversion using a pulse-driven hybrid MOS-PN photodetector

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Denis Sallin

In this Letter, a direct light-to-digital converter based on an MOS-PN photodetector driven by pulsed voltage is presented. The objective is to avoid any analog-to-digital or time-to-digital conversion and, thereby, to pave the way for a new generation of ...

Optical Society of America2015

A 3D architecture platform dedicated to high-speed computation for power system

Maher Kayal, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel, Guillaume Olivier Lanz, Theodoros Kyriakidis, Denis Sallin

This paper presents an innovative 3D hardware architecture for power system dynamic and transient stability. Based on an intrinsic parallel architecture by means of mixedsignal circuits (analog and digital) it overcomes the speed of numerical simulators fo ...

2013

Modeling Minority Carriers Related Capacitive Effects for Transient Substrate Currents in Smart Power ICs

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

This paper presents an extended model for transient and ac circuit-level simulation of minority carriers propagation through the substrate of smart power integrated circuits (ICs). A p-n junction and a diffusion resistor with capacitive components are prop ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Spice Simulation of Passive Protection in Smart Power ICs

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

When designing in Smart Power technologies, TCAD simulations are mandatory to design effective passive protections against parasitic couplings due to minority carriers. The objective of this paper is to propose a spice-based approach to characterize electr ...

Ieee2015

A 32kHz crystal oscillator leveraging voltage scaling in an ultra-low power 40nA real-time clock

Maher Kayal, Luca Rossi, François Krummenacher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

In this paper, an ultra-low power consumption crystal oscillator embedded in an RTC module (ASIC and its crystal resonator) is presented. The technique leverages oscillation amplitude and loads capacitance scaling; it incorporates transistor level merging ...

IEEE2018

Electrical model of a single pixel SOI phototransistor relying on the transient charge pumping technique

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese

In this paper a floating body partially depleted SOI MOSFET used to measure light intensity using the transient charge pumping [1] is modeled through an equivalent electrical circuit. Essentially, photogenerated charges of the MOSFET are converted into a c ...

2007