Designing a low power clock network in synchronous circuits is an important task. This requirement is stricter for 3-D circuits due to the increased power densities. Resonant clock networks are considered efficient low-power alternatives to conventional clock distribution schemes. These networks utilize additional inductive circuits to reduce the power consumption while delivering a full swing ...

In the recent decade, integrated electronics implemented using wide bandgap semiconductor technologies such as Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) have been shown to be viable candidates in extreme environments (e.g high-temperature and high radiation). Such electronics have applications in down-hole drilling, automobile-, airand spaceindustries. In this thesis, integrated circuits ...

Fabrication of an integrated circuit with smaller area, besides reducing the cost of manufacturing, usually causes a reduction in the power dissipation and propagation delay. Using the static CMOS technology to fabricate a circuit that realizes a specific logic function and occupies a minimum space, it must be implemented with continuous diffusion runs. Therefore, at the design stage, an Euleri...

Fabrication of an integrated circuit with smaller area, besides reducing the cost of manufacturing, usually causes a reduction in the power dissipation and propagation delay. Using the static CMOS technology to fabricate a circuit that realizes a specific logic function and occupies a minimum space, it must be implemented with continuous diffusion runs. Therefore, at the design stage, an Euleri...

This study focuses on the design of electrical stimulator for retinal prosthesis. The stimulator must be designed such that the occurrence of electrolysis or any irreversible process in the electrodes and flexible lead is prevented in order to achieve safe stimulation over long periods using the large number of electrodes. Some types of biphasic current pulse circuits, charge balance circuits, ...

This paper provides an investigation of power distribution network (PDN) performance by a full-wave prediction tool and by experimental measurements. A set of six real boards characterized by increasing complexity is considered in order to establish a solid base for behaviour understanding of printed circuit boards. How the growing complexity impacts on the board performance is investigated by ...

SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) is a widely used circuit simulation framework for integrated circuit designs. The basic skeleton of SPICE time domain simulation was derived from the versions developed in UC Berkeley during the 1970s. In this paper, we report most recent numerical integration methods to improve traditional SPICE time integration schemes, which are bas...

This study aims to present an effective VLSI circuit for multi-channel spike sorting. The circuit supports the spike detection, feature extraction and classification operations. The detection circuit is implemented in accordance with the nonlinear energy operator algorithm. Both the peak detection and area computation operations are adopted for the realization of the hardware architecture for f...