Journal articleScience (New York, N.Y.) · April 2020
Ratcheting effects play an important role in systems ranging from mechanical socket wrenches to biological motor proteins. The underlying principle is to convert a fluctuating, unbiased force into unidirectional motion. Here, we report the ratcheting of el ...
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Journal articleIEEE Sensors Journal · July 15, 2017
Demand for cheaper and more functional sensors continues to rise in an era when data can be used to improve health, safety, and efficiency in daily lives. In this paper, we present a fully printed sensor capable of noninvasive material thickness detection. ...
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Journal articleJ Biomed Opt · February 1, 2017
We have developed a portable, breast margin assessment probe leveraging diffuse optical spectroscopy to quantify the morphological landscape of breast tumor margins during breast conserving surgery. The approach presented here leverages a custom-made 16-ch ...
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Journal articleBiomed Opt Express · December 1, 2012
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) is a well-established method to quantitatively distinguish between benign and cancerous tissue for tumor margin assessment. Current multipixel DRS margin assessment tools are bulky fiber-based probes that have limited ...
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Journal articleProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · June 12, 2012
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy has been previously explored as a promising method for providing real-time visual maps of tissue composition to help surgeons determine breast lumpectomy margins and to ensure the complete removal of a tumor during surgery. ...
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Journal article2011 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference Biocas 2011 · December 1, 2011
A custom imaging array has been optimized for diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for breast cancer margin assessment. The imaging array has been designed, fabricated and tested with a 99% diffuse reflectance standard, a 2% diffuse reflectance standard, bovin ...
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Journal articleAdvances in Engineering Education · 2010
The field of electrical and computer engineering has evolved significantly in the past two decades. This evolution has broadened the field of ECE, and subfields have seen deep penetration into very specialized areas. Remarkable devices and systems arising ...
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Journal articleASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · September 1, 2009
A flexible low cost digital RF/IR communication link is described with an accompanying curriculum. The construction of the data link is intended to provide a jumping off point for students to explore electronics in a design-oriented, project-based first el ...
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Journal articleIEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems · August 2009
Chip-scale integrated planar photonic sensing systems for portable diagnostics and monitoring are emerging, as photonic components are integrated into systems with silicon (Si), Si complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, and fluidics. This paper reviews p ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · October 27, 2008
This paper presents the implementation of multivariate calibration, which is a Chemometrics technique, on a 16-bit precision, low transistor-count serial sensor signal processor. The primary advantage of the proposed processor is its small area consumption ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · October 27, 2008
Electrophoretic separation is a key technology for DNA sequencing, environmental pathogen detection and identification, disease diagnostics, and proteomics. However, current electrophoresis systems are limited to laboratory benchtop applications due to cos ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · April 23, 2008
The integration of planar optical components at the chip scale with electronic and microfluidic systems is enabling an increased penetration of optical functionality into systems, and in particular, into highly portable systems. Planar lightwave integrated ...
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Journal articleAnesthesia and analgesia · December 2007
The revolution in integrated circuits over the past 50 yr has produced inexpensive computing and communications systems that are powerful and portable. The technologies for these integrated chip-scale sensing systems, which will be miniature, lightweight, ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2007
Due to the single binary bitstream output nature of delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters, a compact serial processor that can perform general purpose computation as well as signal processing for the delta-sigma converter is proposed. The advantages of ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2007
Electrophoresis is a valuable technique for the separation and analysis of chemical and biological specimens. Typically, an electric field is established between two electrodes that induces charged particles to move and separate. Instead of using only one ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2007
A method of using parallel analog building blocks with adjustable parameters was demonstrated to be able to achieve a wide array of analog circuit functionally with high accuracy. The method is generally useful when the penalty for needing to adapt the cir ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2006
A new nonlinear iterative delta-sigma decoder based on the modulator integrator bounds is presented. The proposed decoder has faster convergence and more efficient decision levels than the previously known zoomer decoder. The proposed decoder shows the bes ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2006
A CMOS DPS (Digital Pixel Sensor) with wide dynamic range is presented. Highly efficient exponential multiple sampling with variable reset voltage is used to enhance the dynamic range. Each pixel in the image sensor is composed of a photo detector, a compa ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2006
A scalable and modular delta-sigma modulator readout architecture and an implementation for an array-based sensor system are presented. The proposed readout system has parallel finite impulse response (FIR) filters that are one-to-one mapped to a large-sca ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2006
This paper proposes a compact, one-bit serial processing CPU architecture for general purpose computing as well as for digital signal processing. The primary design goal is to achieve optimal silicon area, which is one of the critical demands in the area-c ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2006
A mixed-signal implementation of an iterative bound-based nonlinear data acquisition decoding algorithm for first-order delta-sigma (Δ-Sigma;) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) is discussed. The design is partitioned into analog and digital sections whic ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · November 1, 2006
High-frequency linear analog circuits are widely used in high-speed and wireless radio frequency communication circuits as front-end devices. The small-signal model of transistors is typically used to evaluate the bandwidth (BW) of such devices during desi ...
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Journal articleProceedings of IEEE Sensors · January 1, 2006
Parasitic capacitance analysis of an ultra thin-film Metal-Semiconductor- Metal(MSM) photodetector(PD) having the lowest capacitance per unit surface area is reported in this paper. Through cladding layers removing process using etching, 50-60% decrease in ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2005
A time-interleaved switched-capactior filter design for reconfigurable triple-band delta-sigma (δσ) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is discussed. The proposed filter design utilizes time multiplexing of sampled data to capacitors, and it is useful to imp ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2005
A mixed-signal optoelectronic system-on-a-chip sensor was integrated with embedded photodetector arrays and interferometric optical waveguides on a silicon (Si) complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit chip. Photodetector (PD) arrays were fab ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · September 19, 2005
In this paper, a predictive (scalable) measurement-based model for high frequency interconnects on low cost FR4 substrates is proposed and demonstrated. In our research, the interconnects are modeled with equivalent circuits of scalable building blocks usi ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · September 19, 2005
As data rates increase, optical interconnections at the boards and substrate levels become interesting alternatives for high performance interconnections [1, 2]. Optical interconnection using embedded thin film photodetectors (PDs) in polymer waveguides is ...
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Journal articleProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · July 21, 2005
The integration of active optoelectronic devices, passive optical devices, and electronics into planar lightwave integrated circuits (PLICs) at the chip level, and planar lightwave integrated systems (PLIS) at the substrate or package level, have applicati ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · July 21, 2005
High speed optical interconnections offer an attractive alternative to electrical interconnections, particularly when they can be integrated into electrical systems. In particular, waveguide signal distribution and optical to electrical (O/E) conversion ar ...
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Journal articleProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · July 21, 2005
Optical sensing, and the integration of sensors and electronics into Sensor on a Chip and Sensor on a Package systems are an approach to the creation of miniaturized, portable, customizable, low cost sensor systems for rapid health diagnostics, medical res ...
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Journal articleOptics InfoBase Conference Papers · January 1, 2005
Optical interconnections at the board and chip levels are being integrated into traditional electrical interconnection systems using heterogeneous integration of thin film active optoelectronic devices (photodetectors, lasers) and passive waveguiding struc ...
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Journal articleProc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA) · 2005
Optical sensing, and the integration of sensors and electronics into Sensor on a Chip and Sensor on a Package systems are an approach to the creation of miniaturized, portable, customizable, low cost sensor systems for rapid health diagnostics, medical res ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · December 27, 2004
As the demand of high data rate increases, electrical interconnects on the board becomes a bottleneck for the overall system performance because of crosstalk, transmission line effects, clock skew, and timing jitter. Thus, considerable effort has been made ...
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Journal articleProceedings of IEEE Sensors · December 1, 2004
A sensor-on-a-chip integrated microsystem was implemented through a standard silicon (Si) complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication and an optical waveguide integration processes. The fabricated Si CMOS chip has embedded lateral pnp bipola ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 2004
The enhancement of the impulse response and capacitance performance of thin film InGaAs metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) was carried out through etching. The capacitances of the MSM were measured using scattering parameter measurements using a lightwave com ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 2004
A wideband preamplifier was designed and fabricated using a 0.18 μm CMOS technology. The amplifier was heterogeneously integrated with a thin film InGaAs inverted photodetector. A successful demonstration at a bit rate of 10 Gbps was reported. All the stag ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 2004
A wideband multiple resonance small-signal laser equivalent circuit model is presented to improve optoelectronic circuit design accuracy. Two important laser diode characteristics, such as input reflections and electrical-to-optical transmissions are expre ...
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Journal articleJournal of Lightwave Technology · September 1, 2004
Optical interconnection and signal distribution at the backplane, board, and substrate level can be implemented using thin-film active optoelectronic devices embedded in polymer waveguide structures. These active embedded devices eliminate the need for opt ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · August 16, 2004
Photodetectors (PDs) are an important active device in optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEICs), and, for shorter haul interconnections where circuit (e.g. transimpedance amplifier (TIA)) noise may be the dominant noise in receivers, metal-semiconductor- ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · August 16, 2004
As an alternative approach to current electrical interconnection technology, optical interconnections at high speeds offer several potential advantages including small footprint, simple system design (in comparison to transmission lines), and immunity to e ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · August 16, 2004
Arrays of embedded bipolar junction transistor (BJT) photo detectors (PD) and a parallel mixed-signal processing system were fabricated as a silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor (Si-CMOS) circuit for the integration optical sensors on the surfac ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics · July 1, 2004
Inverted metal-semiconductor-metal (I-MSM) photodetectors, which are thin-film MSMs with the growth substrate removed and fingers on the bottom of the device (to eliminate finger shadowing to enhance responsivity), are reported herein for high-speed high-e ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging · May 1, 2004
As the data rate of integrated circuits dramatically increases, interconnection speed at the backplane and board levels are beginning to limit system performance, which drives investigations into alternative interconnection technologies. Critical factors t ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering · 2004
Linear statistical models have been generated to predict the performance of metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) PDs for multi-gigabit optical interconnections. The models estimate the bandwidth and responsivity of the MSM PDs based on the input factors: absorb ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs · 2004
A differential laser driver (LD) operating at 1 Gb/s been designed and tested using NSC 0.35-μm CMOS technology. The effect of simultaneous switching noise caused by packaging parasitic was addressed and the parasitic model was developed to predict the ...
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Journal articleOSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series · January 1, 2004
A scheme for integrating interferometric sensors with Si CMOS circuitry is presented. An integrated biological\chemical sensor provides a low cost, noninvasive alternative to traditional sensor technologies. ...
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Journal articleIEEE ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design Digest of Technical Papers Iccad · January 1, 2004
With increasing uncertainties in the modeling and processing of semiconductor devices, it is essential that the sources of failures be identified once the devices are manufactured. In this paper, we present a methodology to diagnose the problems in broad-b ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 9, 2003
Optical interconnections offer a simple way to design and implement alternatives to point to point electrical interconnections. In fact, the design complexity of these optical interconnections is similar to lower speed multi-drop electrical interconnection ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II Analog and Digital Signal Processing · December 1, 2003
In this experimental research paper, analog circuits are manufactured and their performance evaluated for suitability in performing FIR image filtering with the convolution kernel and data altered via error spectrum shaping and oversampling so as to preclu ...
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Journal articleJournal of Lightwave Technology · October 1, 2003
The performance of three optoelectronic structures incorporating substrate-embedded InP-based inverted metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors and/or volume holographic gratings are analyzed and compared at the primary optical communication wavelengths. T ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · July 17, 2003
An integration process for creating optical interconnections which can be integrated in a post-processing format onto standard boards and modules, and eventually, even integrated circuits is presented. The process is consistent with integration onto electr ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · July 17, 2003
Electrical and optical interconnects were compared to evaluate superiority of data rate, channel power dissipation and power consumption in driver as a function of line length. Transmission lines were simulated by HSPICE transient simulator and measured fo ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · July 17, 2003
On-wafer measurements of devices always include the parasitic effects of probe pads, interconnections, and substrate resistance. In order to extract actual Device Under Test (DUT) parameters from the measurements, several on-wafer test structures such as o ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · July 14, 2003
A new architecture of high-speed comb filter is proposed and simulated. The proposed architecture takes advantage of the concept of carry-save adder and binary signed-digit to minimizes the carry propagation. It has a highly modular architecture and can be ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics · March 1, 2003
Significant opportunities are emerging for optical interconnections at the board, module, and chip level if compact, low loss, high data rate optical interconnections can be integrated into these electrical interconnection systems. This paper describes an ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics · March 1, 2003
Emerging techniques for integrating optoelectronic (OE) devices, analog interface circuitry, RF circuitry, and digital logic into ultra-mixed signal systems offers approaches toward and demonstrations of integrated optical interconnections in electrical mi ...
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Journal articleOptics and Photonics News · January 1, 2003
The methods used in integration and processing of optical functions into an electronic system are discussed. Planar lightwave circuit interconnections at the board, module and chip level are being used for optical connections at very short distances. The i ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics · November 1, 2002
Significant opportunities exist for optical interconnections at the board, module, and chip level if compact, low-loss, high-data-rate optical interconnections can be integrated into these electrical interconnection systems. To create such an integrated op ...
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Journal articleIEEE Photonics Technology Letters · February 1, 2002
The heterogeneous integration of GaN thin-film metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodetectors onto a host substrate of SiO2-Si is reported herein. Thin-film GaN photodetectors were separated from the lithium gallate (LiGaO2) growth su ...
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Journal articleIEEE transactions on neural networks · January 2002
The paper presents a mixed signal CMOS feedforward neural-network chip with on-chip error-reduction hardware for real-time adaptation. The chip has compact on-chip weighs capable of high-speed parallel learning; the implemented learning algorithm is a gene ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · January 1, 2002
The fabrication and characterization of co-located, 3D stacked thin film PDs was carried out. Independent electrical access to each of the two spatially co-located photodetectors was demonstrated, with two different wavelengths successfully resolved. ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · January 1, 2002
An overview is given of the fabrication process technology and measurement results for two different embedded structures: thin film InGaAs photodetectors embedded in a polymer waveguide and below a polymer waveguide, with both exhibiting efficient coupling ...
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Journal articlePacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics CLEO Technical Digest · January 1, 2002
Optical interconnections, on foundry silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductors (CMOS) circuits using polymer optical waveguides, was demonstrated. The polymer optical waveguides were directly fabricated on two Si CMOS circuits. The channel in the fa ...
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Journal articlePacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics CLEO Technical Digest · January 1, 2002
The metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodetector dark current and responsivity results for the growth of gallium nitride on lithium gallate substrates were reported. The heterogeneous integration of thin film gallium nitride MSM detectors onto host substr ...
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Journal articleIscas 2001 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Conference Proceedings · December 1, 2001
This paper provides a new approach to mitigate the crosstalk interference in the symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) upstream transmission. A vector channel equalizer has been proposed for the SDSL upstream receiver to enhance spectral compatibility f ...
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Journal articleMaterials Research Society Symposium Proceedings · January 1, 2001
This paper provides a new approach to mitigate the crosstalk interference in the symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) upstream transmission. A vector channel equalizer has been proposed for the SDSL upstream receiver to enhance spectral compatibility f ...
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Journal articleETRI Journal · January 1, 2001
Examination of the statistical variation of integrated passive components is crucial for designing and characterizing the performance of multichip module (MCM) substrates. In this paper, the statistical analysis of parallel plate capacitors with gridded pl ...
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Journal articleTechnical Digest International Electron Devices Meeting · January 1, 2001
Heterogeneous integration of dissimilar materials and devices is necessary for the continued advancement of electronic and optoelectronic systems. A range of processes has been developed in recent years that will enable system integration and advanced pack ...
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Journal articleIEEE International Conference on Communications · January 1, 2001
This paper provides a new approach to mitigate the crosstalk interference in the symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) upstream transmission. A vector channel equalizer has been proposed for the SDSL upstream receiver to enhance spectral compatibility f ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · January 1, 2001
The increasing demand for high bandwidth, low latency I/O in gigascale systems is challenging current packaging technology. Optoelectronic I/O offers needed performance, but presents new challenges in mixed signal (digital, analog, optical, RF) design and ...
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Journal articleIEEE Pacific RIM Conference on Communications Computers and Signal Processing Proceedings · January 1, 2001
This paper describes a new approach to enhance Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) (emphasizing DMT-ADSL) throughput with multiuser channel model. We have studied the spectral distribution of DSL interference and the capacity of a twisted pair channel in a same ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · December 1, 2000
Smart photonics, the integration of optoelectronic devices with electronic circuits and systems, has growing applications in many fields, one of which is computing. An exploration of the opportunities, integration technologies, and some recent results usin ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 2000
An overview is given on the hybrid integration of a thin film large area, low capacitance InGaAsP/InP inverted metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector onto a Si CMOS differential receiver circuit. The integrated receiver has a measured bit-error-rate (BER) ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · December 1, 2000
High frequency signal distribution in HDI/HDW substrates can be achieved using optical interconnections. To realize effective milli- and micro-haul interconnections on these substrates, the hybrid integration of independently optimized interface circuits a ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 2000
Multispectral imagers have been heavily studied for their application to target recognition, industrial gas pollutant monitoring, and biomedical imaging. This article describes the design and simulation of a 0.25 micron CMOS modulator and small enough to a ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 2000
A high speed laser driver circuit was designed and fabricated with an on-chip decoupling capacitor to prevent output distortion from packaging parasitics. The suitability of a decoupling capacitor with a minimum capacitance of 7 nF was verified. ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · December 1, 2000
A method of accurately modeling new passive devices by deembedding the many building blocks is described. It is shown that the variation in the complete equivalent circuit models can be used to predict variations in actual fabricated devices. ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology · January 1, 2000
Current trends in vehicular technology reflect an increase in the number of electronic modules, leading to more complicated and expensive wiring. The use of optic fibers offers a low-cost alternative to traditional copper-wire harnesses. This paper present ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 2000
This paper presents the results of simultaneously working fully-differential optoelectronic (OE) receiver fabricated in Si CMOS with digital SIMD microprocessor on the same die next to analog, optical interface circuitry, the receiver have been hybrid inte ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics · January 1, 2000
The integration and packaging of optoelectronic devices with electronic circuits and systems has growing application in many fields, ranging from long to micro haul links. An exploration of the opportunities, integration technologies, and some recent resul ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 2000
Multidisciplinary team-oriented research is an effective method for investigating systems spanning multiple knowledge areas. Building on cross-functional team strategies developed for highly competitive industries, experts from a variety of technical domai ...
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Journal articleETRI Journal · January 1, 2000
The extraction of model parameters for embedded passive components is crucial for designing and characterizing the performance of multichip module (MCM) substrates. In this paper, a method for optimizing the extraction of these parameters using genetic alg ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · January 1, 2000
A 'smart' multispectral imaging system that can be fabricated with independently optimized detector arrays and Si CMOS circuits is described. This imager utilizes the heterogeneous integration of thin film GaN (UV), MCT (MWIR), and Si CMOS circuitry to cre ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · January 1, 2000
Recently we have demonstrated a compact current input oversampling modulator for a scalable high frame rate focal plane arrays that enable frame rates over than 100kfps operating in continuous imaging mode. All the circuits including data lines and detecto ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · January 1, 2000
A thin film large area, low capacitance, high responsivity InGaAs/InP inverted metal-semiconductor-metal (I-MSM) was hybrid integrated onto a Si CMOS differential receiver circuit. The integrated receiver demonstrated a bit-error-rate (BER) of 10-11
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · January 1, 2000
The necessity of passive components in analog circuit design such as Clock Recovery Circuits (CRC) or Phase Locked Loops (PLL) has been a main barrier to overcome especially when using a standard digital CMOS process. In addition to lack of support of high ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · January 1, 2000
This paper demonstrates a compact current input oversampling modulator for a scalable high frame rate focal plane arrays. This smart pixel architecture with the proposed compact current input oversampling modulator is intended for scientific imagers with f ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging · December 1, 1999
A novel technique is presented for the accurate, rapid, high frequency, predictive modeling of parallel plate capacitors with gridded plates manufactured in a multilayer low temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC) process. The method is empirical in nature and ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing · December 1, 1999
This paper demonstrates the advantages of modeling semiconductor process variability using a multivariate nested distribution. This distribution allows estimation not only of correlation among various model parameters, but also allows each of those variati ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 1999
Smart photonics, or the integration of optoelectronic (OE) devices and links with circuitry such as Si complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits, can yield both advanced optical links and possibly integrated ...
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Journal articleIEEE Electron Device Letters · March 1, 1999
The combination of resonant tunneling diodes (RTD's) and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) silicon circuitry can offer substantial improvement in speed, power dissipation, and circuit complexity over CMOS-only circuits. We demonstrate the firs ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics · March 1, 1999
We present for the first time a three-dimensional (3-D) Si CMOS interconnection system consisting of three layers of optically interconnected hybrid integrated Si CMOS transceivers. The transceivers were fabricated using 0.8-μm digital Si CMOS foundry circ ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics · March 1, 1999
This paper evaluates the potential for the real-time utilization of high frame rate image sequences using a fully parallel readout system. Multiple readout architectures for high frame rate imaging are compared. The application domain for a fully parallel ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · January 1, 1999
In this paper we describe a method of accurately modeling new passive devices by deembedding the many building blocks from which they are built from just a few test structures. We use a nonlinear optimizer to find the optimal models for the building blocks ...
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Journal articleProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks · January 1, 1999
Presented in this paper is a parallel learning neural network chip, which is used to perform real-time output feedback control on a nonlinear dynamic plant. The controlled plant is a simulated unstable combustion process. Neural networks provide an adaptiv ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · January 1, 1999
This paper presents test results for an adaptive bias control for an optical receiver and transmitter. The need for accurate adaptive bias sources has been an important issue for the design of compact, high-resolution, high-precision optoelectronic circuit ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · January 1, 1999
A parallel hardware neural network with on-chip learning ability is presented. The chip is used to perform real-time output feedback control on a nonlinear dynamic system. The non linear plant is a simulated unstable combustion process and is nonlinear eno ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · January 1, 1999
This work focuses on reducing substrate noise and substrate coupling using a fully differential circuit topology. Described is a current-mode optical receiver and comparator designed to reduce the digital substrate noise injection. ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics · December 1, 1998
This paper addresses the problem of deadbeat control in fully controlled high-power-factor rectifiers. Improved deadbeat control can be achieved through the use of neural-network-based predictors for the input-current reference to the rectifier. In this ap ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 1998
Wearable video processing systems integrate low cost silicon detectors and analog interface circuitry with massively parallel digital processing on a single chip. While this `imaging system on a chip' can enable many significant new systems, many architect ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 1998
High density interconnect (HDI) electrical interconnections and vertical optoelectronic (OE) through-Si links for 3D computational systems have been modeled, and compared and contrasted in the areas of latency, size, and power dissipation. Based upon the S ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Part B · May 1, 1998
A novel technique is presented for the high speed, accurate, predictive modeling of arbitrary geometry integrated resistor structures manufactured in a variety of technologies, including those of both multichip modules (MCM's) and integrated circuits (IC's ...
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Journal articleIEEE Photonics Technology Letters · April 1, 1998
Optical interconnection through stacked silicon foundry complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuitry has been demonstrated at a data rate of over 40 Mb/s with an open eye diagram. The system consists of a 0.8-μm transmitter and receiver realize ...
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Journal articleIEEE Photonics Technology Letters · March 1, 1998
Optical interconnection through stacked silicon foundry complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuitry has been demonstrated at a data rate of over 40 Mb/s with an open eye diagram. The system consists of a 0.8-μm transmitter and receiver realize ...
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Journal articleProceedings 4th International Symposium on Advanced Packaging Materials Processes Properties and Interfaces · January 1, 1998
Consistent with the Packaging Research Center's vision of low cost single level integrated modules (SLIM), the Wireless Thrust is focused on developing integrated solutions for wireless interfaces. The core focus is to develop: (1) Development and analysis ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · January 1, 1998
A high frame rate smart pixel imaging system using an analog to digital converter per pixel in an 8×8 integrated detector array is discussed. The smart pixel architecture enables frame rates of up to 100 kfps operating in a continuous imaging mode. This in ...
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Journal articleIEEE MTT S International Microwave Symposium Digest · January 1, 1998
A GaAs-based amplifier has been designed and integrated with a large area, high efficiency, thin film InP-based metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector. Thin film integration is a hybrid integration scheme that minimizes the parasitics between the InP dete ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · January 1, 1998
Three layers of standard foundry Si complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) very large scale integrated (VLSI) integrated circuits, each integrated with long wavelength thin film emitter and detectors, have been stacked to realize a 3D system with o ...
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Journal articleIEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium RFIC Digest of Technical Papers · January 1, 1998
A GaAs-based amplifier has been designed and integrated with a large area, high efficiency, thin film InP-based metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector. Thin film integration is a hybrid integration scheme that minimizes the parasitics between the InP dete ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing · December 1, 1997
This paper presents a novel procedure for predicting integrated circuit parametric performance and yield when provided with sample transistor test results and a circuit schematic. Two enhancements to the existing Monte Carlo simulation procedures are descr ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Industry Applications · December 1, 1997
Artificial neural networks (ANN's), which have no off-line pretraining, can be trained continually on-line to identify an inverter-fed induction motor and control its stator currents. Due to the small time constants of the motor circuits, the time to compl ...
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Journal articleIEEE Photonics Technology Letters · June 1, 1997
This letter presents testing results of an integrated optoelectronic (OE) channel employing hop-by-hop error control circuitry based on cyclic redundancy codes (CRC) to improve the effective bit-error rate (BER). The use of OE interconnect in place of wire ...
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Journal articleJournal of Parallel and Distributed Computing · February 25, 1997
Through-wafer optoelectronic interconnect offers some architectural alternatives that are not available with wire-based interconnects. In order to compete with wire-based technologies, optoelectronic interconnects must provide reasonable performance in ter ...
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Journal articleAnalog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing · January 1, 1997
We have designed a process-insensitive preamplifier for an optical receiver, fabricated it in several different minimum feature sizes of standard digital CMOS, and demonstrated design scaleability of this analog integrated circuit design. The same amplifie ...
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Journal articleInternational Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections MPPOI Proceedings · January 1, 1997
This paper demonstrates that the real-time utilization of image sequences, at flame rates far above what is currently possible, can now be achieved with an optically interconnected massively parallel processor. A focal plane processing chip with an on-chip ...
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Journal articleProceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference · January 1, 1997
In this paper, we present a novel Fourier technique to calculate the emitter-to-fiber coupling efficiency between an incoherent source of arbitrary directivity and a multimode fiber. The technique expresses the 4-D integral that describes the coupling as a ...
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Journal articleInternational Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections MPPOI Proceedings · January 1, 1997
Systolic arrays have traditionally provided efficient, high performance execution for computation intensive applications. Despite the extensive research in systolic arrays, system designers must continually incorporate new technological advances to improve ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · January 1, 1997
A neural network using the Random Weight Change algorithm is shown able to be trained to perform on-line control of the current of an induction motor stator, despite analog circuit nonidealities. The induction motor is a complex nonlinear electromechanical ...
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Journal articleIEEE Topical Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging · December 1, 1996
A new method for the predictive modeling of passive devices with interactions based upon measurement and primitive cell characterization is presented. Building block RLC equivalents can be utilized for arbitrary geometry device modeling in high speed circu ...
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Journal articleInternational Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections MPPOI Proceedings · December 1, 1996
Focal plane processing applications present a growing computing need for portable telecomputing and videoputing systems. This paper demonstrates the integration of digital processing, analog interface circuitry, and thin film OE devices into a compact comp ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 1996
A fully operational 8×8 array of GaAs resonant cavity-enhanced light emitting diodes (RCELED) was directly integrated on top of a silicon grayscale driver circuit. The integrated optoelectronic circuit allowed 32-level grayscale emission from each individu ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 1996
A digital transmitter was developed by bonding Indium phosphide based thin film surface emitters directly to digital silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits operating at 155 Mbps with digital I/O for application in a three dimension ...
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Journal articleIEEE Photonics Technology Letters · October 1, 1996
This letter reports the bonding of a small, thin-film GaAs-based emitter onto a larger silicon detector to realize spatial colocation of the emitter and detector. These colocated devices enable single fiber bidirectional communication between the two analo ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Part B · February 1, 1996
The multimaterial integration of thin-film optoelectronic devices with host substrates ranging from silicon circuits to glass waveguides to polymer micromachines offers to the system designer the freedom to choose the optimal materials for each component t ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · January 1, 1996
Digital CMOS can be used for analog receiver designs if the packaging parasitics can be sufficiently reduced. Using direct bonding of a thin-film detector to a CMOS circuit, high-performance receivers can be realized in low-cost, standard foundry CMOS. Thi ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · January 1, 1996
A single fiber bi-directional smart pixel link is proposed which uses the colocation of an emitter and detector at each end of the fiber. To realize a fully functional communications link, CMOS analog optoelectronic receiver and transmitter circuits which ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · January 1, 1996
A quasi-monolithic digital CMOS amplifier has been integrated with 1.3 μm wavelength, InGaAs I-MSM. The power dissipation is less than 20 mW. The sensitivity for 10-10 BER measured at 27-1, 155 Mbps PRBS is about 8 μA. This integratio ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · January 1, 1996
A low cost, low power digital silicon transmitter integrated with a GaAs-based RCELED has been fabricated and characterized. Operation at 155 Mbps has been demonstrated with a digital input, resulting in a transmitter which is integrable with digital Si ci ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · December 1, 1995
The fabrication and performance of thin film p-i-n and metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodetectors and the integration of these detectors onto silicon circuitry is presented. The thin film photodetectors are separated from the growth substrate using epi ...
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Journal articleIECON Proceedings Industrial Electronics Conference · December 1, 1995
This paper addresses the problem of deadbeat control in fully controlled high power factor rectifiers. Improved deadbeat control can be achieved through the use of neural network-based predictors for the input current reference to the rectifier. In this ap ...
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Journal articleConference Record IAS Annual Meeting IEEE Industry Applications Society · December 1, 1995
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) which have no off-line pre-training, can be trained continually on-line to identify an inverter fed induction motor and control its stator currents. Due to the small time constants of the motor circuits, the time to comple ...
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Journal articleConference Proceedings Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting LEOS · December 1, 1995
Low cost silicon digital CMOS foundry circuitry is a prime candidate for low cost, high performance optoelectronic receivers. However, silicon detectors are not as efficient as compound semiconductor detectors. Hybrid packaging of compound semiconductor de ...
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Journal articleInternational Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections MPPOI Proceedings · December 1, 1995
This paper presents several design issues associated with the implementation of a three dimensional optically interconnected parallel processing system. A technique for improving bit error rate in low power multistage networks is presented. Error detection ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · September 15, 1995
The integration of thin film optoelectronic devices with host substrates such as circuits, waveguides, and micromachines offers to the systems engineer the freedom to choose the optimal materials to achieve performance and cost objectives. In essence, the ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II Analog and Digital Signal Processing · January 1, 1995
In general, low resolution circuitry can be designed with higher speed performance than high resolution circuitry. Most high resolution A/D converter architectures require a high resolution component, such as a S/H or integrator, in their design and are of ...
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Journal articleJournal of Lightwave Technology · January 1, 1995
This paper presents a three-dimensional, highly parallel, optically interconnected system to process high-throughput stream data such as images. The vertical optical interconnections are realized using integrated optoelectronic devices operating at wavelen ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 1995
High frame rate infrared scene generation depends on high performance digital processors that are tightly coupled to infrared emitter arrays. Massively parallel image generation hardware can realize the type of high throughput, high frame rate processing t ...
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Journal articleIEEE Photonics Technology Letters · January 1, 1995
This paper reports the integration of an 8 x 8 array of thin-film GaAs-AlGaAs photodetectors onto a silicon-oscillator array circuit for massively parallel-image processing applications. Each detector was electrically connected to the oscillator below it u ...
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Journal articleIEEE Photonics Technology Letters · January 1, 1995
To demonstrate optical communication through stacked silicon circuitry, thin film InGaAsP-based emitters and photodetectors have been bonded directly onto silicon circuitry. These optoelectronic devices operate at a wavelength to which silicon is transpare ...
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Journal articleProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 1995
While many circuit designers have tackled the problem of CMOS digital communications receiver design, few have considered the problem of circuitry suitable for an all CMOS digital IC fabrication process. Faced with a high speed receiver design the circuit ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 1994
A front-end transimpedance amplifier for an optical receiver is designed, fabricated through MOSIS 1.2μm digital CMOS foundry, and tested. The amplifier meets the specification of FDDI physical layer. Test shows that the bandwidth of the circuit is more th ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 1994
A useful circuit topology for the realization of compact, precise digital to analog converters is presented. The converter architecture uses digital correction to obtain good precision in an inexpensive, non-precision, short channel, digital CMOS process. ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 1994
A four by four array of GaAs P-i-N photodetectors was integrated onto a metalized silicon substrate and directly on top of an array of silicon circuits. The resultant focal plane processor at each location in the array converts the incident light intensity ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · December 1, 1994
A smart pixel imaging array of GaAs-based thin film photodetectors has been integrated in three dimensions directly on top of silicon neuromorphic oscillator circuits. Photomicrographs of the integrated assembly and test results are presented. ...
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Journal articleLEOS Summer Topical Meeting · December 1, 1994
Low cost, high complexity silicon CMOS circuitry is an ideal candidate for low cost, high performance integrated optoelectronics. The paper presents a study on the integration of GaAs and InP based thin film P-i-N detectors with a five stage silicon CMOS t ...
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Journal articleAnalog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing · September 1, 1994
Parallel analog circuits are introduced for the solution of systems of nonlinear algebraic equations and the integration of systems of differential equations. Both simulations using HSPICE and a hardware implementation are presented which show how the circ ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications · January 1, 1994
Programming of EEPROM devices fabricated in standard processes often requires voltages that exceed the bulk-drain breakdown voltages of integrated circuits, making the full integration of the programming circuitry difficult. This paper presents a modified ...
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Journal articleAnalog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing · July 1, 1993
A high-speed signal conditioning circuit is presented that can be programmed for correction of nonlinearity in a sensor signal processing system. The function of the circuit is based on piecewise linear principles. Post-fabrication programming to adapt to ...
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Journal articleApplied optics · February 1993
A new application of symbolic substitution is presented for string matching with the goal of data compression. A temporal sequence of input symbols is mapped onto a two-dimensional array that contains a tree structure, which in turn is mapped into another ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits · January 1, 1993
A high-speed CMOS piecewise linear approximation circuit is presented that can be programmed for correction of nonlinearity after fabrication. The basic building block generates a linear segment, for which slope and position can be adjusted. Adjustments to ...
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Journal articleProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks · January 1, 1993
Although researchers have been engaged in fabrication of neural network hardware, only a few networks implemented with a learning algorithm have been reported. A learning algorithm is required to be implemented on a VLSI chip because off-chip learning with ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · January 1, 1993
An architecture is presented for a high resolution analog-to-digital (A/D) converter with tolerance to nonlinearities in the critical timing path as well as offsets and gain errors. An error budget analysis is also included which describes the relationship ...
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Journal articleIEEE Photonics Technology Letters · January 1, 1992
A three-dimensional integration technology that electrically connects an independently optimized thin-film device layer to a Si circuitry layer is reported in this paper. An epitaxial liftoff GaAs thin-film optical detector is integrated directly on top of ...
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Journal articleProceedings Ijcnn International Joint Conference on Neural Networks · January 1, 1992
Summary form only given. A neural network system is considered that seeks to find the optimal structure embedded in a temporal sequence. This structure is manifested by the existence of a finite number of subsequences that comprise the temporal sequence. T ...
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Journal articleElectron Device Letters · January 1, 1991
A floating-gate MOSFET which is programmable in both directions by Fowler-Nordheim tunneling and is fabricated using an inexpensive standard 2-μm double-polysilicon CMOS technology is discussed. Tunneling occurs at a crossover of polysilicon 1 with polysil ...
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Journal articleIEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · January 1, 1991
This paper discusses an algorithm for the extraction of circuit parasitics in integrated circuits using classical transmission line models. This gives a better account of the dc and ac characteristics of interconnects than models incorporating exclusively ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 1990
Several potential neural architectures for an A/D converter are examined, and the level of nonidealities that can be tolerated by the network components without inhibiting high-precision operation through training is discussed. Behavioral-level simulations ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 1990
A structure for an analog divider that allows the use of short-channel devices for high speed without loss in accuracy due to second-order effects is proposed. It consists of 13 parallel modules that each approximate a division in a small region. The weigh ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 1990
In order to gain new insight into the design of high-precision, high-speed analog circuits, several possible network implementations of an A/D converter are presented. These networks are marked by programmability and parallelism, which can be used to maint ...
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Journal articleMidwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 1990
An algorithm for the extraction of circuit parasitics in integrated circuits using classic transmission line models is discussed. This gives a better account of the DC and AC characteristics of interconnects than models incorporating exclusively either the ...
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Journal articleProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 1990
A fast, compact process and temperature insensitive perceptron neural network is introduced. The integrated circuit proposed forms one layer in a perceptron neural network that can be easily cascaded to form a multiple-layer network. The implementation rea ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits · January 1, 1986
A detailed technical description is given of BITPAR, a VAX-compatible Fortran program that computes SPICE Gummel-Poon parameters for a macromodel of an integrated bipolar-junction transistor (IBJT). The program permits formulation of implicit relationships ...
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Journal articleIEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 1986
A detailed technical description is given of BITPAR, a VAX-compatible Fortran program that computes SPICE Gummel-Poon parameters for a macromodel of an integrated bipolar-junction transistor (IBJT). The program permits formulation of implicit relationships ...
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