The CMOS image sensor is widely used in digital multimedia applications. Its performance ramps up every year with denser integration,…
Design of digital integrated circuits and systems. Energy efficient implementation of signal processing, communication and medical systems. Circuit design with emerging technologies.
Moore’s law scaling and the diminishing performance returns of complex uniprocessor chips have led to the advent of multicore processors…
The Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer (CMUT) is an alternative to traditional piezoelectric transducers. The CMUT technology provides an opportunity for…
Most current ultrasound imaging systems use piezoelectric materials for the ultrasound transducer. The recent development of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) allowed…
Wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) have a great potential to save energy and improve safety when applied to building energy monitoring,…
Circuits for wearable vital sign monitors have very stringent requirements on power dissipation due to limited energy storage capacity and…
The emergence of faster and lower-power non-volatile memory technologies has opened up the investigation of ways to integrate these technologies…
With computational imaging becoming an integral part of photography, enabling this functionality on portable multimedia device is important. Portable device…
High-efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is a new video compression standard currently being standardized by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video…
On-chip memories are responsible for a large portion (40% by many estimates [1] ) of the total energy consumption and…
Designing a low-power wireless communication system involves two major milestones: use of very efficient RF architectures, including circuits for power…
This work focuses on using gallium nitride (GaN) FETs for an LED lighting system. The idea is to utilize the…
Advancements in low-power electronics have opened up many opportunities to provide healthcare solutions through continuous, unobtrusive sensing of vital physiological…
Continuous tracking of neurological disorders is crucial for the proper diagnosis and medication of epilepsy, and it mandates the design…
The ever-increasing demand for richer internet video content and larger video resolution has motivated work on algorithms that achieve higher…
An ultrasound image is formed from a collection of ultrasonic beams transmitted and received by an array of transducer elements. …
Sensing, data processing, and communication are essential functions of a useful sensor node, whether used in industrial, health or sports…
Speech recognition is becoming a ubiquitous component of the digital infrastructure, serving as an I/O adapter between people and electronic…