MOTIVATION In principle, novel genetic circuits can be engineered using standard parts with well-understood functionalities. However, no model based on the simple composition of these parts has become a standard, mainly because it is difficult to define signal exchanges between biological units as unambiguously as in electrical engineering. Corresponding concepts and computational tools for eas...

Modeling and Simulation Aided Verification of Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits Scott Little and Chris Myers University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA {little,myers}@vlsigroup.ece.utah.edu Abstract. Analog/Mixed-signal (AMS) circuit verification is a growing problem as process variation increases and AMS circuits become more functionally complex. To improve analog verification flows, AMS cir...

Although fully signal-conditioned, calibrated, and temperature compensated monolithic sensor ICs are commercially available today, there are many applications where the flexibility of designing custom signal-conditioning is of great benefit. Perhaps the need for a versatile low-level sensor output is best illustrated by considering two particular cases that frequently occur: (1) the user is in ...

This article introduces a power-efficient, miniature electronic nose (e-nose) system. The e-nose system primarily comprises two self-developed chips, a multiple-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT)-polymer based microsensor array, and a low-power signal-processing chip. The microsensor array was fabricated on a silicon wafer by using standard photolithography technology. The microsensor array comprise...

Abstract We highlight a recent trend in photonics where integrated photonic chips are designed and operated as programmable devices like the case of electronics. discuss potential application these circuits signal processing.

Fault-tolerant design of analog circuits is more difficult than that of digital circuits. Abhijit Chatterjee has proposed a continuous checksum-based technique to design fault-tolerant linear analog circuits. However, some faults in the passive elements cannot be detected if the checker has not been designed appropriately. This paper addresses the fault coverage issue in the continuous checksum...

We report systems for network measurements at millimeter-wave frequencies. Active probes are used for on-wafer measurements to approximately 150 GHz. The active probes incorporate monolithic GaAs mm-wave network analysis circuits (comprising a nonlinear transmission line stimulus signal generator and a directional sampling circuit) and lowloss, rugged quartz coplanar-waveguide probe tips. Wideb...

| Periodic small-signal analysis is a recently developed approach for AC and noise analysis of linear periodically-varying circuits. This paper presents several new approaches to characterizing the transfer functions, noise, and distortion of communication circuits using this new technique. A receiver is used as an example, but the techniques presented are applicable to a wide variety of circui...