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In-circuit emulator

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Emulating Multimemristive Behavior of Silicon Nanowire-Based Biosensors by Using CMOS-Based Implementations

Sandro Carrara, Junrui Chen, Kapil Bhardwaj

The research presented in this article draws inspiration from previous efforts aimed at replicating the functions of various solid-state memristors using a variety of materials. The memristor circuit emulator serves as a cost-effective tool for circuit des ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Comparison of Two in Pixel Source Follower Schemes for Deep Subelectron Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone, Minhao Yang, Daniel Mathias Bold, Andrea Kraxner

This paper compares two in-pixel source follower stage designs for low noise CMOS image sensors embedded both on a same 5 mm by 5 mm chip fabricated in a 180 nm CIS process. The presented chip embeds two pixel variants, one based on a body-effect-canceled ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

New Insights for Parasitic Effects of Label-Free Biosensors Based on Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Sandro Carrara, Yihe Zhao

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) are regarded as an attractive candidate in bio-applications such as imaging and molecule monitoring. However, the previous researches on biochemical sensing are mostly air-coupled application based on ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Hardware and Software Interfaces Design for Multi-Panel Electrochemical Sensors

Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra

The exponential growth of wearable healthcare devices market is fostered by the internetof- things (IoT) era. Connected smart biosensors enable a decentralized healthcare that does not constrain the user to be in a medical facility to get a real-time insig ...

EPFL2021

HALucinator: Firmware Re-hosting Through Abstraction Layer Emulation

Mathias Josef Payer

Given the increasing ubiquity of online embedded devices, analyzing their firmware is important to security, privacy, and safety. The tight coupling between hardware and firmware and the diversity found in embedded systems makes it hard to perform dynamic ...

USENIX ASSOC2020

Radiation enhanced oxidation of proton-irradiated copper thin-films: Towards a new concept of ultra-high radiation dosimetry

Jean-Michel Sallese, Didier Bouvet, Georgi Gorine

The effects of extreme radiation levels on the electrical resistivity of metal thin films made of copper were studied by means of electrical measurements and post irradiation imaging. Different 3x3 mm(2) chips were produced by depositing 500 nm of meander ...

2019

A Scalable and Secure System Architecture for Smart Buildings

Georgios Lilis

Recent years has seen profound changes in building technologies both in Europe and worldwide. With the emergence of Smart Grid and Smart City concepts, the Smart Building has attracted considerable attention and rapid development. The introduction of novel ...

EPFL2017

Equivalent Admittance Approach for the Scattering of Patch/Slot-Based Frequency Selective Surfaces

Juan Ramon Mosig, Maria Garcia Vigueras

The equivalent admittance of a 2-D array of printed metallic patches/apertures is obtained here by extending a precedent equivalent circuit approach reported by some of the authors. The goal of the present extension is to cover more complex situations like ...

Ieee2016

Simplified Modal Expansion to Analyze Frequency-Selective Surfaces: An Equivalent Circuit Approach

Juan Ramon Mosig, Maria Garcia Vigueras

This communication extends a previously reported analytical circuit that models the plane wave scattering by 2-D arrays of planar patches/apertures embedded in a layered media. In this extension, it is assumed that the current/electric field spatial profil ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

A Sub-mW Pulse-Based 5-bit Flash ADC with a Time-Domain Fully-Digital Reference Ladder

Yusuf Leblebici, Alexandre Schmid, Nikola Katic, Radisav Cojbasic

Journal article A sub-mW pulse-based 5-bit flash ADC with a time-domain fully-digital reference ladder: A Katic, Nikola; Cojbasic, Radisav; Schmid, Alexandre; Leblebici, Yusuf Published in: Microelectronics Journal (ISSN: 0026-2692), vol. 46, num. 12, ...

Elsevier2015

A 15 mu W 5.5 kS/s Resistive Sensor Readout Circuit with 7.6 ENOB

Catherine Dehollain

A low power SAR logic-based resistive sensor readout circuit is proposed. A high sensitivity thermistor is used for local temperature measurements. The need for a low-noise front-end voltage amplifier is avoided by employing time-domain operation. In each ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

An Ultra-High Speed Emulator Dedicated to Power System Dynamics Computation Based on a Mixed-Signal Hardware Platform

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

This paper presents an ultra-high speed hardware platform dedicated to power system dynamic (small signal) and transient (large signal) stability. It is based on an intrinsic parallel architecture which contains hybrid mixed-signal (analog and digital) cir ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

A Low-Power Sensor Interface Circuit for Remotely Powered Implants

Catherine Dehollain, Xiao Liu

This paper proposes an interface circuit for wirelessly powered implants for mice temperature monitoring. The circuit contains the read-out circuit and a data converter. By using a novel approach to cancel the non-linear effects of thermistor sensors, the ...

Ieee2013

A Circuit Model for CMOS Hall Cells Performance Evaluation including Temperature Effects

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Maria-Alexandra Paun

In order to provide the information on their Hall voltage, sensitivity, and drift with temperature, a new simpler lumped circuit model for the evaluation of various Hall cells has been developed. In this sense, the finite element model proposed by the auth ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2013

Querypoint Debugging (Semi-Automated Inspection of Buggy Execution)

Salman Mirghasemi

Debugging is a hard and time-consuming programming task that appears in the most stages of software development and maintenance. Therefore, any improvement in the debugging practice can significantly reduce the time and costs of software production. In thi ...

EPFL2012

A Miniaturized Autonomous Microsystem for Hydrogen Gas Sensing Applications

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Naser Khosro Pour

This paper presents a fully integrated, ultra-low power microsystem that is used for hydrogen gas sensing in an autonomous wireless sensor node. The proposed circuit harvests solar energy from a micro-power photovoltaic module to measure temperature and hy ...

Ieee2012

Low-Power Circuits and Systems Design for Data Acquisition and Transmission in a Wireless Cortical Implant

Vahid Majidzadeh Bafar

Minimally invasive monitoring of the electrical activity of specific cortical areas using implantable microsystems offers the promise of diagnosing neurological diseases, as well as detecting and identifying neural activity patterns which are specific to a ...

EPFL2012

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

Querypoint : Moving Backwards on Wrong Values in the Buggy Execution

Claude Petitpierre, Salman Mirghasemi

As developers debug, they often have to seek the origins of wrong values they see in their debugger. This search must be performed backwards in time since the code causing the wrong value is executed before the wrong value appears. Therefore, locating the ...

2011

Power efficient asynchronous multiplexer for X-ray sensors in medical imaging analog front-end electronics

Pierre-André Farine, Rafal Tomasz Dlugosz

This paper presents a new power efficient asynchronous multiplexer(MUX) for application in analog front-endelectronics(AFE) used in X-ray medical imaging systems. Contrary to typica lsynchronous MUXes that have to be controlled by a clock, this circuit fea ...

Elsevier2011