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Interconnections are increasingly the dominant contributor to delay, area and energy consumption in CMOS digital circuits. Multiple-valued logic can decrease the average power required for level transitions and reduces the number of required interconnections, hence also reducing the impact of interconnections on overall energy consumption. In this paper, we propose a quaternary lookup table (LUT)...
CMOS RC oscillators have low area, can be built with a low cost technology, and have a wide tuning range, but they have higher phase-noise than LC oscillators. This can be overcome by synchronizing the oscillator by injection-locking with an low phase-noise external source. We present here an experimental study of injection-locking in an RC two-integrator oscillator. First and second harmonic injection...
This paper describes an integrated digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for a intra-cortical microelectrode stimulator. The circuit has a special feature that consists on charging and discharging the same current to prevent electric charge accumulation that might harm the brain. The DAC has 5 bits of resolution supplying a maximum current of 100 µA to one electrode of the cortical stimulator. The circuit...
Modern Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) regulations have recently been adopted worldwide allowing for unlicensed operation within 3.1 and 10.6 GHz, using an appropriate wideband signal format with a low Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) level. UWB characteristics are suitable to transmit data using pulses instead of continuous-waves such as in narrowband radio links. It has the potential to be the right...
In this work we present a prototype circuit to harvest energy from radio waves or through magnetic coupling based on a stack of full-wave rectifiers with transistors working on sub-threshold region. This circuit will use as an input a field-to-voltage converter capable of outputting a 200mV waveform and is able to self-start without any other energy sources. The circuit presented here is a proof of...
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