This paper presents an analog interface application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a capacitive angle encoder, which is widely used in control machine systems. The encoder consists of two parts: a sensitive structure and analog readout circui...
With advances in space, nuclear, and defense industries, the susceptibility of semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) to radiation has increased. Radiation-induced degradation and malfunctioning of IC performance can lead to system failure, leading...
This paper presents an analog front-end transceiver for an ultrasound imaging system based on a high-voltage (HV) transmitter, a low-noise front-end amplifier (RX), and a complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor, aluminum nitride, piezoelectric microm...
To address the issues of high customization, long development cycles, and excessive power/volume in radio frequency (RF) transceiver modules for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and radar systems, this paper presents an ultra-compact universal RF trans...
With the rapid growth in healthcare demand, an emergent, novel technology called wireless body area networks (WBANs) have become promising and have been widely used in the field of human health monitoring. A WBAN can collect human physical parameters...
Recently, multiple new technologies have emerged for automating the development of neural network (NN) accelerators for both field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). This paper explores methodologie...
High frame rate three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging would offer excellent possibilities for the accurate assessment of carotid artery diseases. This calls for a matrix transducer with a large aperture and a vast number of elements. Such a matri...
This paper presents an ultrasound transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) directly integrated with an array of 12 × 80 piezoelectric transducer elements to enable next-generation ultrasound probes for 3D carotid artery imagin...
With the growing demand for secure image communication, effective encryption solutions are critical for safeguarding visual data from unauthorized access. The substitution box (S-box) in AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is critical for ensuring non...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of a time-of-flight (TOF) brain positron emission tomography (PET) providing high-quality images. It consisted of 30 detector blocks arranged in a ring with a diameter of 257 mm and an axia...
This paper proposes a modified predictive direct torque control (MPDTC) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with multistage hysteresis and fuzzy controller to address the ripple problem of hysteresis controllers and to have a low power con...
The proliferation of battery-operated end-user electronic devices due to technological advancements, especially in medical image processing applications, demands low power consumption, high-speed operation, and efficient coding. The design of these d...
This paper proposes a modified predictive direct torque control (PDTC) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) of a motor drive with a fuzzy controller for eliminating sampling and calculating delay times in hysteresis controllers. These delay...
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...
The non-linear characteristic of a non-contacting Inductive Proximity Sensor (IPS) with the temperature affects the computation accuracy when measuring the target distance in real time. The linear model based method for distance estimation shows a la...
Power optimization is a very important and challenging step in the physical design flow, and it is a critical success factor of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip. Many techniques are used by the place and route (P&R) electron...
In the era of highly integrated circuits, continuous miniaturization has significantly increased routing complexity, thereby directly impacting circuit performance. As process scaling advances and the number of on-chip metal layers increases, convent...
According to the continuous development of metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) fabrication technology, transistors have naturally become more radiation-tolerant through steadily decreasing gate-oxide thickness, increasing the tunneling probability betwee...
SIMON is a block cipher developed to provide flexible security options for lightweight hardware applications such as the Internet-of-things (IoT). Safeguarding such resource-constrained hardware from side-channel attacks poses a significant challenge...
In recent years, many chaos-based encryption algorithms have been proposed. Many of these are based on established designs and populate their S-boxes with values derived from chaotic maps, following conventional implementation strategies to enable co...
Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels are the best solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by fossil fuel combustion, with global capability now exceeding 714 GW due to rapid technological advances in solar panels (SPs). However, SPs’ efficiency a...
Self-sustained feedback oscillators referenced to MEMS/NEMS resonators have the potential for a wide range of applications in timing and sensing systems. In this paper, we describe a real-time temperature compensation approach to improving the long-t...
In digital audio systems, filters and equalizers are essential modules for audio improvement at the input and output stages. Due to their computational complexity, most audio tasks are processed with digital signal processors. Due to the fact that la...
A significant problem in the field of hardware security consists of hardware trojan (HT) viruses. The insertion of HTs into a circuit can be applied for each phase of the circuit chain of production. HTs degrade the infected circuit, destroy it or le...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has successfully made its way into contemporary industrial sectors such as automobiles, defense, industrial automation 4.0, healthcare technologies, agriculture, and many other domains because of its ability to act autono...
Artificial intelligence has revolutionised smart medicine, resulting in enhanced medical care. This study presents an automated detector chip for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using a support vector machine (SVM) and three-dimensional (3D) o...
In this paper, we propose a methodology for computing the square root of a complex number based on a piecewise linear (PWL) approximation method. The proposed method relies on a software-based segmentor that automatically divides the three real squar...
Cryptosystems based on supersingular isogeny are a novel tool in post-quantum cryptography. One compelling characteristic is their concise keys and ciphertexts. However, the performance of supersingular isogeny computation is currently worse than tha...
The ST segment of an ECG signal is a feature that changes in the event of cardiac ischemia, a condition that is an early warning sign of myocardial infarction. Being able to monitor this feature in real time would be highly beneficial for preventing...
The use of Acousto-Optical Tunable Filters (AOTFs) is well known in ground- and space-based applications. These devices are used in several optical instruments and payloads for monitoring and other purposes. To make use of the filter capability of th...
A 2D Discrete Cosine Transform and Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform using the B.G. Lee algorithm, incorporating a signed error-tolerant adder for additions, and a signed low-power fixed-point multiplier to perform multiplications are proposed and de...
This study presents a comprehensive systematic analysis, investigating hardware accelerators specifically designed for real-time cardiovascular signal processing, focusing mainly on Electrocardiogram (ECG), Photoplethysmogram (PPG), and blood pressur...
This paper presents a new hardware optimized and error reduced approximate adder (HOERAA), which is suitable for field programmable gate array (FPGA)- and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-based implementations. In this work, we consider...
A direct bidirectional current discharge path between the input/output (I/O) and ground (GND) is essential for the robust protection of charging device models (CDM) in the tightly constrained design parameters of advanced low-voltage (LV) processes....
With the development of satellite load technology and very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit technology, onboard real-time synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging systems have become a solution for allowing rapid response to disasters. A key goal...
Modern machines strive to run at limit performance and dependability while their operational area and size are getting restricted. To achieve those objectives, often swift integration of custom-made subsystems is required, either actuators, sensors,...
Random number generators are of paramount importance in numerous fields. Under certain well-defined adversarial settings, True Random Number Generators (TRNGs) are more secure than their computational (pseudo) random number generator counterparts. TR...
This paper presents an improved VLSI (Very Large Scale of Integration) architecture for real-time and high-accuracy computation of trigonometric functions with fixed-point arithmetic, particularly arctangent using CORDIC (Coordinate Rotation Digital...
With the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring robust end-to-end encryption is paramount. Current cryptographic accelerators often struggle with balancing security, area efficiency, and power consumption, which are critical for...
A physics-based model for the output current–voltage (I–V) characteristics of AlGaN/GaN HFETs is developed based on AlGaAs/GaAs HFETs. It is demonstrated that Polarization Coulomb Field (PCF) scattering greatly influences channel electron...
This study presents an inductance capacitance (LC) phase-locked loop (PLL) with a dual voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and a noise-reduced low-dropout (LDO) regulator, which was used in four-lane multiprotocol serial link applications. The dual V...
β-Ga2O3 films were grown on sapphire (0001) substrates with various O/Ga (VI/III) ratios by metal organic chemical vapor deposition. The effects of VI/III ratio on growth rate, structural, morphological, and Raman properties of the films were sy...
Frequency multipliers and mixers based on Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) are widely used in terahertz (THz) imaging applications. However, they still face obstacles, such as poor performance consistency caused by discrete flip-chip diodes, as well as...
In this paper, a high-performance 0.34 THz sub-harmonic mixer combining two-stage reduced matching technology with an improved active circuit model is established and analyzed. The mixer’s improved active circuit model is realized by decomposin...
High-power IGBTs are used in power electronic converters in a variety of applications: traction drives, renewable power converters, mining equipment, oil and water pumping, and so on. To control a transistor, a special gate driver board is required....
Terahertz (THz) radiation has received much attention during the past few decades for its potential applications in various fields, such as spectroscopy, imaging, and wireless communications. To use terahertz waves for data transmission in different...
A gating circuit for a photonic quantum simulator is introduced. The gating circuit uses a large excess bias voltage of up to 9.9 V and an integrated single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD). Nine channels are monolithically implemented in an application...
The small-signal S parameters of the fabricated double-finger gate AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) were measured at various direct current quiescent operating points (DCQOPs). Under active bias conditions, small-signal equivalent...
In this work, hydrogen-terminated diamond (H-diamond) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs) on a heteroepitaxial diamond substrate with an Al2O3 dielectric and a passivation layer were characterized. The full-width at half maxi...
This study aims to present an effective VLSI circuit for multi-channel spike sorting. The circuit supports the spike detection, feature extraction and classification operations. The detection circuit is implemented in accordance with the nonlinear en...
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