Defuzzifier circuit is one of the most important parts of fuzzy logic controllers that determine the output accuracy. The Center Of Gravity method (COG) is one of the most accurate methods that so far been presented for defuzzification. In this paper, a simple algorithm is presented to generate triangular output membership functions in the Mamdani method using the multiplier/divider circuit and...

This paper presents a four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) receiver that incorporates continuous time linear equalizer, variable gain amplifier, phase interpolator-based clock and data recovery, 4-tap direct decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for moderate channel loss applications in wireline communication. A dynamic current-mode logic comparator (DCMLC) is proposed employed the DFE. Th...

This paper presents single-cell dynamic fault models for deep-submicron semiconductor memories together with their associated tests (test primitives). The test primitives are evaluated industrially, together with the traditional tests, using 65nm technology 131 Kbytes embedded SRAMs. A comparison between static faults and dynamic faults is presented and the results are reported; they show the i...

A novel galvanic isolated amplifier based on CMOS integrated Hall sensors is presented in this paper. Two serially connected Hall-effect are along with their instrumentation amplifiers using the TSMC 65nm process. printed-circuit board employed to validate proposed isolation by assembling chip chopper modulator, coil driver, miniature coil, variable gain amplifier, and anti-aliasing filter. Bec...

This brief proposes a fully dynamic discrete-time ${\Delta }{\Sigma }$ ADC using closed-loop two-stage cascoded floating inverter amplifiers (FIA). The proposed FIA uses non-cascoded as the notation="LaTeX">$1^{\mathrm{ st}}$ stage an...

Hardware security is an essential tool in the prevention of cloning, theft of service and tampering. This security is often based on cryptographic primitives, which use a key that is securely stored somewhere in the hardware. The strength of the security is therefore dependent upon the effort required from an attacker to compromise this key. Since the tools used to carry out attacks on hardware...

This paper describes a high-resolution 3D navigation and tracking system using magnetic field gradients, that can replace X-Ray fluoroscopy in high-precision surgeries. Monotonically varying fields X, Y Z directions are created the field-of-view (FOV) to produce which encode each spatial point uniquely. Highly miniaturized, wireless battery-less devices, capable of measuring their local field, ...

This paper evaluates the impact of the technology node on the area, performance and power consumption of a configurable VLSI architecture for Sum of Absolutes Differences (SAD). Such architecture may be configured to take benefit from pel decimation, trading off quality for energy. The proposed architecture was synthesized for 90nm and 65nm technologies assuming both nominal and Low-Vdd/High-Vt...

A wide bandwidth, high sample rate 3 order continuous-time ΔΣ modulator using VCO-based integrators is presented. Non-idealities caused by VCOs at the modulator frontend are addressed using both circuitand architecture-level techniques. Fabricated in 65nm CMOS, the prototype modulator operates at 1.28GS/s and achieves a dynamic range of 75dB, SNR of 71dB in 50MHz bandwidth, while consuming 38mW...