In recent years, the development of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADASs) is driving the need for more reliable and precise on-vehicle sensing. Radar and lidar are crucial in this framework, since they allow sensing of vehicle’s surroundin...
High-dynamic-range (HDR) technology enhances the capture of luminance beyond the limits of traditional images, facilitating the capture of more nuanced and lifelike visual effects. This advancement has profound implications across various sectors, su...
Content-addressable memory (CAM) has been part of the memory market for more than five decades. CAM can carry out a single clock cycle lookup based on the content rather than an address. Thanks to this attractive feature, CAM is utilized in memory sy...
Silicon radiation detectors, a special type of microelectronic sensor which plays a crucial role in many applications, are reviewed in this paper, focusing on fabrication aspects. After addressing the basic concepts and the main requirements, the evo...
Silicon carbide is changing power electronics; it is enabling massive car electrification owing to its far more efficient operation with respect to mainstream silicon in a large variety of energy conversion systems like the main traction inverter of...
A general overview of Noise-Shaping Successive Approximation Register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters is provided, encompassing the fundamentals, operational principles, and key architectures of Noise-Shaping SAR (NS SAR). Key challenges, includin...
This article summarizes the current development status of nanoimprint lithography (NIL) technology and its application prospects in multiple industries. Nanoimprint lithography technology has significant advantages, such as low cost, high resolution,...
This paper reviews the state of the art on bandpass ΣΔ modulators (BP-ΣΔMs) intended to digitize radio frequency (RF) signals. A priori, this is the most direct way to implement software-defined radio (SDR) systems since the a...
This paper presents an ultra-low power CMOS voltage reference which operates in the subthreshold region. Modified from the conventional 2T circuit, the proposed circuit is capable of generating higher output voltage by using the resistor subdivision....
For Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Depthwise Separable CNN (DSCNN) is the preferred architecture for Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) implementation on edge devices. It benefits from a multi-mode approximate multiplier proposed i...
