In this paper a novel multilevel current source inverter structure is proposed. This inverter is likely to be used in low/medium power applications. The proposed topology is analyzed and then compared with conventional inverters in order to validate the superiority of the proposed inverter. In this topology, all the desired current levels can be obtained using lower number of circuit devices. T...

The mammalian neocortex gives rise to a wide range of mental activities and consists of a constellation of interconnected areas that are built from a set of basic circuit templates. Major obstacles to understanding cortical architecture include the diversity of cell types, their highly recurrent local and global connectivity, dynamic circuit operations, and a convoluted developmental assembly p...

This paper describes the design and development of a pulse selector circuit, two different low cost techniques for generation of low jitter variable delays and a high band width line driver for use in the regenerative amplifier stage of a table top Terawatt femto second laser chain. The pulse selector stage selects one pulse from a high frequency laser oscillator, injects it into the regenerati...

A simple architecture for data input into a molecular quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) circuit from an external CMOS circuit is proposed. A “T”-shaped interconnect, utilizing fixed-polarization cells to provide the desired polarization, is controlled via external electrodes connected to a standard CMOS input driver. The applied input signal is used to gate either the propagation of a fixed p...

................................................................................................................vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................vi 1 BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................1 1.1 Interconnect Circuit Challenge ...................

A single-stage LED driver based on interleaved buck-boost circuit and LLC resonant converter is proposed. The buck-boost circuit and LLC resonant converter are integrated by sharing switches, which can decrease the system cost and improve system efficiency. The input voltage of the buck-boost circuit is half of the rectified voltage, and two buckboost circuits are formed with the two half-bridg...

An efficient method for analyzing general distributed-lumped interconnect networks with linear or nonlinear loads for transient simulation is presented. The method is based on scattering parameter techniques. The reduced-order approximate models of linear networks with multiple inputs and outputs can be obtained in one pass of reduction. Only two operations are used to do circuit reduction. The...

In deep-submicron technologies the primary component of delay is shifting from logic gates to the interconnect network. Buses can no longer be considered as a set of independent lines that don’t interact. A more appropriate model would treat the bus as a distributed system, where a transition on a line would affect adjacent lines as well. However, the transitions on the buses can be grouped int...

The voltage and current THD values of the symmetric inverter operated by fundamental switching frequency are closer to the IEEE 519 standard. Some additional filter circuit is required to minimize the THD values within the specified limits. However symmetric multilevel inverter requires more number of components and driver circuits. Asymmetric multilevel inverter is proposed in this chapter to ...

SUMMARY This paper presents a design of the software and hardware modules of an embedded board with both a sensor and an interface circuit which not only control home light-emitting diode (LED) lighting appliances but also reduce their differences in brightness caused by luminous decay. This design consists of four parts: an automatically adjusted LED driver, environment illumination detection,...