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A Low Power Current-Mode Binary-Tree WTA / LTA Circuit for Kohonen Neural Networks

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Demonstration of Tunable Optical Aggregation of QPSK to 16-QAM Over Optically Generated Nyquist Pulse Trains Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour, Cong Liu

A tunable and reconfigurable optical aggregation system is experimentally demonstrated. Optical Nyquist pulses are generated on multiple channels using a microresonator-based Kerr optical frequency comb and insertion of uniform lines by an intensity modula ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

A 161-mW 56-Gb/s ADC-Based Discrete Multitone Wireline Receiver Data-Path in 14-nm FinFET

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Andreas Peter Burg, Gain Kim, Lukas Kull, Thomas Toifl, Cosimo Aprile, Ilter Ozkaya

This article introduces a wireline receiver (RX) data-path employing discrete multi-tone (DMT) modulation for communicating over electrical links. The DMT RX incorporates a fully digital equalization data-path, with a synthesized and automatically placed a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Enhanced-performance integrated Resonant Switched-Capacitor and Buck DC-DC converters for application in extreme radiation and magnetic field environments

Giacomo Ripamonti

DC-DC converters based on Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) have been developed in this doctoral work for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) experiments at CERN. They step down the voltage from a 2.5 V line and supply a load ...

EPFL2020

Nanoimaging of Ultrashort Magnon Emission by Ferromagnetic Grating Couplers at GHz Frequencies

Dirk Grundler, Ping Che, Korbinian Baumgärtl, Andrea Mucchietto

On-chip signal processing at microwave frequencies is key for modern mobile communication. When one aims at small footprints, low power consumption, reprogrammable filters, and delay lines, magnons in low-damping ferrimagnets offer great promise. Ferromagn ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2020

Cryo-CMOS for Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

CMOS circuits operating at cryogenic temperature (cryo-CMOS) are required in several low-temperature applications. A compelling example is the electronic interface for quantum processors, which must reside very close to the cryogenic quantum devices it ser ...

IEEE2020

CMOS-Based Readout and Control Electronics for Microgrippers

Marco Mattavelli, Diego Ruben Barrettino

This paper presents the design of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with all the necessary electronic blocks to read out and control Conjugate Surfaces Flexure Hinge (CSFH) microgrippers. The ASIC was fabricated using a high-voltage 0.35 mu ...

IEEE2020

Asymptotically Optimal Contextual Bandit Algorithm Using Hierarchical Structures

Hakan Gökcesu, Kaan Gökcesu

We propose an online algorithm for sequential learning in the contextual multiarmed bandit setting. Our approach is to partition the context space and, then, optimally combine all of the possible mappings between the partition regions and the set of bandit ...

2019

ISI Sensitivity of PAM Signaling for Very High-Speed Short-Reach Copper Links

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik

This paper presents a comparative study, analyzing the potentials of pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) for implementing next generation high-speed copper wireline links. This comparative study analyzes the sensitivities of PAM2, PAM4 and PAM8 to inter-symbo ...

IEEE2019

Low-Power Design of Digital VLSI Circuits around the Point of First Failure

Andrea Bonetti

As an increase of intelligent and self-powered devices is forecasted for our future everyday life, the implementation of energy-autonomous devices that can wirelessly communicate data from sensors is crucial. Even though techniques such as voltage scaling ...

EPFL2019

Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Molten Fe-Si-O in Earth's Core

James Badro

Silicon and oxygen are potential light elements in Earth's core because their stronger affinity to metal observed with increasing temperature posits that significant amounts of both can be incorporated into the core. It was proposed that an Fe-Si-O liquid ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2019

Experimental demonstration of three-fold wavelength multicasting of a 64-QAM 120 Gbit/s data channel using a Kerr frequency comb and nonlinear wave mixing

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate three-fold wavelength multicasting of a 64-quadrature-amplitude-modulation (QAM), 120-Gbit/s data channel using a microresonator Kerr frequency comb and nonlinear wave mixing. The multicasting is achieved with a data signal an ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication for Implantable Autonomous Monitoring and Detection of Epilepsy In Vivo

Kerim Türe

The impact of technological advancement became significant and still has an essential role to play in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Nowadays, personalized medicine and therapy are on the rise as a consequence of the developed and cheaper medical ...

EPFL2019