Usually, experts on wearable technologies decide the physiognomy of the designed devices following their opinion or intuition. In general, no study with real users is conducted to ensure the proposed device is ergonomic. This situation is especially critical when working on cybernetic gloves, since the hand performs high precision movements and has a high sensitivity. Therefore, in this paper w...

Depending on your expectations or claims, mixed-signal BIST could be either fact or fiction. Recognizing facts from fiction is key for the industry to successfully deploy mixed-signal BIST potentials. Is Mixed-Signal-BIST Feasible? Despite the general consensus that considers mixed-signal BIST as a relatively new technology, it has been used as part of high-performance analog design process for...

In this paper a current mode very low voltage (LV) (1 V) and low power (LP) (21 μW) differential difference second generation current conveyor (CCII) is presented. The circuit is developed by applying the current sensing technique to a fully balanced version of a differential difference amplifier (DDA) so to design a suitable LV LP integrated version of the so-called differential difference CCI...

In this paper a dual voltage CMOS low power output pad is presented. The pads are the interface circuits between the core and the package pins of any integrated circuit. The power consumption of these pads it is a very important parameter for the global power consumption of the integrated circuit that includes them. The proposed pad includes a pre-driver and a final output stage including ESD(e...

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This paper discusses architectural and circuit-level aspects related to hardware realizations of fuzzy controllers. A brief overview on fuzzy inference methods is given focusing on chip implementation. The singleton or zero-order Sugeno’s method is chosen since it offers a good trade-off between hardware simplicity and control efficiency. The CMOS microcontroller described herein processes info...

An integrated circuit that computes the velocity vector of a visual stimulus in one dimension is presented. The circuit combines optical sensors and associated electronics on a single silicon chip, processed with standard CMOS technology. The velocity is inferred from the time delay of the appearance of an image feature at two xed locations on the chip. The circuit operates quite robustly for h...

This paper describes recent technology trend of mixed analog digital RF circuits. With the progress of CMOS technology, largescale digital signal process and control function can be integrated in an RF integrated circuit and some analog signal process blocks can be translated to digital signal processing units. At the same time, the design of remaining analog functional blocks becomes very hard...

Development of Millimeter Wave Integrated-Circuit Interferometric Sensors for Industrial Sensing Applications. (December 2004) Seoktae Kim, B.S., Inha University, S. Korea; M.S., Pohang University of Science and Technology, S. Korea Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Cam Nguyen New millimeter wave interferometric, multifunctional sensors have been studied for industrial sensing applications: disp...

That formula is also the governing equation that rules optical lithography. R is the measure for resolution, or minimal feature width, which we want to resolve. In traditional semiconductor manufacturing, integrated circuit (IC) layout patterns are printed onto a silicon wafer using ‘light’ of a certain wavelength λ, projecting a mask or reticle through a lens with a certain opening angle, defi...