The very fast growing market of portable equipment is increasing interest in low power integrates circuit. So, designing low power integrated circuits requires reduction of supply voltages and interconnection parasitic to minimum but reduction in supply voltage implies series of problems in circuit design. To overcome these issues, an Ultra low power low voltage two stage class AB CMOS fully di...

This paper presents two highly integrated receiver circuits fabricated in InP heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) technology operating at up to 2.5 and 7.5 Gb/s, respectively. The first IC is a generic digital receiver circuit with CMOS-compatible outputs. It integrates monolithically an automatic-gain-control amplifier, a digital clock and data recovery circuit, and a 1 : 8 demultiplexer, ...

power transformers are key components in electrical power supplies and their failure could cause severe consequences on continuity of service and also generates substantial costs. identifying problems at an early stage, before catastrophic failure occurs, is a great benefit for reliable operation of power transformers. frequency response analysis (fra) is a new, well-known and powerful diagnost...

Versatile dual-mode class-AB CMOS four-quadrant analog multiplier circuit is presented. The dual translinear loops and current mirrors are the basic building blocks in realization scheme. This technique provides; wide dynamic range, wide-bandwidth response and low power consumption. The major advantages of this approach are; its has single ended inputs; since its input is dual translinear loop ...

Title of Document: LOW POWER SMARTDUST RECEIVER WITH NOVEL APPLICATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS OF AN RF POWER HARVESTING CIRCUIT. THOMAS STEVEN SALTER JR., DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY, 2009 Directed By: Professor Neil Goldsman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland Smartdust is the evolution of wireless sensor networks to cubic centimeter dimensions or less. Smartdust ...

This paper presents a new photonic integrated circuit, namely optical pulse-train generator, which is developed based on the transfer matrix analysis of microrings and utilizes a time-interleaved architecture. This circuit can generate multiple optical pulses sequentially from a single trigger pulse, with the timing and amplitude of each pulse determined by circuit design. Hence it can be appli...

Issue 6 2010 Power Electronics Europe www.power-mag.com Power electronics systems are commonly used in motor drive, power supply and power conversion applications. They cover a wide output power spectrum: from several hundred watts in small drives up to megawatts in wind power installations or large drive systems. Inside the system the gate driver circuit with its extensive control and monitori...

This paper presents an energy-efficient solar energy harvesting and sensing microsystem that harvests solar energy from a micro-power photovoltaic module for autonomous operation of a gas sensor. A fully integrated solar energy harvester stores the harvested energy in a rechargeable NiMH microbattery. Hydrogen concentration and temperature are measured and converted to a digital value with 12-b...