{"title":"Dual-band 1.7 GHz / 2.5 GHz class-E power amplifier in 130 nm CMOS technology","authors":"D. Kalim, A. Fatemi, R. Negra","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329059","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of new mobile communication standards demand highly efficient multiband power amplifiers (PAs) both in mobile equipments and base stations. This paper presents a concept for a compact multiharmonic load transformation network (MHLTN), appropriate for a fully integrated differential dual-band PA design in an RF front-end transmitter. The proposed MHLTN was applied to implement a dual-band class-E PA based on finite DC-feed inductance in a 130 nm CMOS process for GSM1700 and LTE2500 operation. With a dual-band input matching network, simulation results have shown peak power added efficiency (PAE) and peak output power of more than 57% and 27 dBm, respectively, at both bands. The designed PA is also able to cover a wide frequency range. From 1.4 GHz to 2.7 GHz, output power is above 25 dBm and PAE is higher than 50 %.","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114736260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Gasnier, J. Willemin, J. Chaillout, C. Condemine, G. Despesse, S. Boisseau, Guillaume Gouvernet, C. Barla
{"title":"Power conversion and integrated circuit architecture for high voltage piezoelectric energy harvesting","authors":"P. Gasnier, J. Willemin, J. Chaillout, C. Condemine, G. Despesse, S. Boisseau, Guillaume Gouvernet, C. Barla","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329035","url":null,"abstract":"Using harvesting energy to extend Wireless Sensor Nodes (WSN) operating life or even supply them, has become a topic of growing interest over the last decades. This paper presents the architecture of a fully autonomous Integrated Circuit which efficiently harvests energy from low frequency mechanical stresses. This circuit uses a high voltage piezoelectric transducer and provides energy to a storage element (battery or capacitor) at lower voltage (2.8 to 3.4V). We propose an innovative way to extract the electrostatic energy by using a modified Flyback topology and multiple magnetic transfers. Measurements show that our solution increases the energy transfer with a gain of 15% compared to the classical technique. We show that this work improves the efficiencies of both power and control stages. Finally, the control circuit of the Flyback converter will perform a self-starting operation from an empty energy storage element and is currently being designed in AMS0.35 CMOS technology.","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132008999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On-chip voltage regulator without physical inductor","authors":"M. Humayun, J. Gjanci, M. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328967","url":null,"abstract":"Voltage regulators are at the heart of portable and embedded systems, which demand high-performance and low-power microprocessor design. These regulators will provide best voltage switching and power delivery when they can be integrated on the same chip with the microprocessor. However, their on-chip implementation is challenging because of low power-conversion efficiency and noisy output due to inductive element. Furthermore, inductors are difficult to be implemented on the chip, because they occupy valuable space due to their large size and introduce many parasitic effects. In this paper we investigate several techniques to replace inductors in a voltage regulator. The purpose is to identify the most suitable option to design physical inductor-less regulator. From primary observation it appears that active circuit elements based inductor can replace inductor in on-chip regulator design.","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"339 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134229176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Direction-of-arrival estimation in a clustered channel model","authors":"V. Vakilian, J. Frigon, S. Roy","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329019","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the performance of the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation algorithm in a clustered channel model. We examine the effect of angular spread on the estimation accuracy of the MUSIC algorithm. Simulation result shows that the performance of the MUSIC algorithm degrades as the angular spread increases. Furthermore, an experimental study is performed in an anechoic chamber to evaluate the performance of DoA estimation using a single reconfigurable antenna element known as Composite Right/Left Handed (CRLH) Leaky-Wave (LW) antenna that offers a high level of directivity with electronically controllable radiation patterns. Experimental results show that the DoA estimation technique succeeded in estimating the DoA using a single antenna element.","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133062840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of an adjustable bias circuit using a single-sided CMOS supply for avalanche photodiodes","authors":"S. Deng, A. Morrison","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328957","url":null,"abstract":"A charge pump circuit operating from a single-sided CMOS supply, capable of biasing avalanche photodiodes up to 40 V with load currents in the mA range is presented. This circuit introduces new design elements that overcome previously published limitations. These elements include pass-gate voltage regulators and a mechanism for linking the negative voltage regulator to the positive voltage output. This design allows linear adjustment of the output voltage from a single control voltage. The circuit has compact dimensions of 1.55 mm × 1 mm, including bond pads, which makes it suitable for hybrid integration in a single package with an APD and two surface-mount capacitors.","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133745974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transient analysis of large linear dynamic networks on hybrid GPU-multicore platforms","authors":"Xuexin Liu, S. Tan, Zao Liu, Hai Wang, Tailong Xu","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328984","url":null,"abstract":"A new transient analysis method is proposed for general linear dynamic networks, such as on-chip power grid networks, using hybrid GPU-based multicore platform. The new method, called ETBR-GPU, first performs sampling-like reduction on the original circuit matrices where the frequency domain responses at different frequency points can be calculated in parallel on multicore CPU. After the reduction, the reduced circuit matrices, which are dense but well suitable for GPU's data parallel computing, are simulated on GPU. Such reduction based simulation technique is very amenable for parallelization on the hybrid multicore and GPU platforms, where coarse-grained task-level and fine-grained lightweight-thread level parallelism can be both exploited. The proposed method is very general, since it can analyze any linear networks with complicated structures and macromodels, and it does not assume some structure properties in order to build problem-specific preconditioners, as many iterative solvers do. Experiments show that the new method achieves about one or two orders of magnitude speedup when compared to the general LU-based simulation method on some recently published IBM power grid benchmark circuits.","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129852942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fine-grained power-gating scheme of a nonvolatile logic-in-memory circuit for low-power motion-vector extraction","authors":"Magdalena Sihotang, S. Matsunaga, T. Hanyu","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329062","url":null,"abstract":"Data-transfer localization is a key technique to solve communication bottleneck between memory and logic modules in realizing high-speed VLSI systems, while it is difficult to use power-gating technique because volatile storage functions are distributed in a CMOS logic-circuit plane, which causes large power dissipation. In this paper, we utilize nonvolatile logic-in-memory (NV-LIM) architecture, where nonvolatile storage functions are distributed over a logic-circuit plane, to solve the above issues. As a typical example of the NV-LIM circuit, we apply it to motion-vector extraction. By the use of fine-grained power-gating technique, total power dissipation of the proposed hardware can be reduced to 60% in comparison with that of a conventional CMOS-only-based hardware.","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"2004 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128288139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Briand, F. Molina‐Lopez, A. V. Quintero, G. Mattana, N. Rooij
{"title":"Printed sensors on smart RFID labels for logistics","authors":"D. Briand, F. Molina‐Lopez, A. V. Quintero, G. Mattana, N. Rooij","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329053","url":null,"abstract":"This communication presents an overview on our activities on the development of printed sensors on flexible polymeric foil for RFID. We are envisioning the direct printing of sensors on different types of products such as smart labels and RFID tags. This technology could bring sensors where there is no sensor at the moment by significantly reducing their production cost and by adding new functionalities. The integration of these sensors fabricated on plastic foil with electronics, communication and powering capabilities will be addressed. The realization of cost-effective smart objects can be one of the key enabling technologies for the deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT).","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128608311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symbolic time-varying root-locus analysis for oscillator design","authors":"Yan Zhu, G. Shi, F. Lee, Andy Tai","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328982","url":null,"abstract":"The small-signal analysis of an oscillator relative to a periodic steady-state (PSS) would generate periodic time-varying characteristic poles. Analyzing periodic root-loci can provide useful design information, which is not available from the existing circuit simulation tools. Although the numerical QZ algorithm can be used to generate periodic root-loci, this paper proposes an alternative symbolic computation method for repeated pole computation. It is demonstrated that the Muller algorithm can be used for finding the dominant periodic roots of a characteristic polynomial with periodic coefficients, whose efficiency is superior to the matrix-based numerical QZ method. Other advantages of symbolic root-locus analysis also are explored by applying the proposed method to the analysis of two oscillator circuits.","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129741280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Li Huang, Xu Zhang, Ning Guan, Sanyuan Chen, Yun Gui, Weihua Pei, Hongda Chen
{"title":"Real-time multi-channel system for neural spikes acquisition and detection","authors":"Li Huang, Xu Zhang, Ning Guan, Sanyuan Chen, Yun Gui, Weihua Pei, Hongda Chen","doi":"10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328978","url":null,"abstract":"A real-time multi-channel system for neural spikes acquisition and detection is presented in this paper. It incorporates self-designed micro-machined silicon recording probes, specific multi-channel biomedical amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters and a digital signal processor. The system can inspect 32 channels of neural signals, detect the spikes simultaneously, and display 1 channel of the original signals and 32 channels of detection results on the PC screen. The function of the system is verified in a saline environment and the accuracy of the spike detection is 95%. Such system can be used as a head stage for free-moving and long-term recording, and even closed-loop recording and stimulating applications.","PeriodicalId":122918,"journal":{"name":"10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130869110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}