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3D Printed Antennas for MM-Wave sensing applications
(2016-09-03)In this paper, three low cost 3D printed antenna concepts for integration with a mm-wave miniature platform are presented. Proposed antenna solutions are optimized to operate in mm-wave ISM band (122GHz-123GHz). Different ... -
A 0.5 V 2.5 uW/MHz Microcontroller with Analog-Assisted Adaptive Body Bias PVT Compensation with 3.13nW/kB SRAM Retention in 55nm Deeply-Depleted Channel CMOS
(2019)Microcontroller systems operating at low supply voltage in near or sub-threshold regime suffer both from increased effects of PVT (Process, Voltage, Temperature) variation and from a larger share of leakage on overall power ... -
A 100 kb/s, 4 GHz, 267 mu W Fully Integrated Low Power FM-UWB Transceiver with Multiple Channels
(2018)A 4 GHz, 100 kb/s FM-UWB transceiver for short-range communications in a body area network is presented. Two receivers and a transmitter use the same RF port with a fully-integrated matching network. The first receiver ... -
A 1kb single-side read 6T sub-threshold SRAM in 180 nm with 530 Hz frequency 3.1 nA total current and 2.4 nA leakage at 0.27 V
(2015)A 1kb 180 nm single-side read 6T sub-threshold SRAM has been designed focusing on manufacturability, integrated and measured satisfactorily. Silicon measurements show 3.1 nA total current, 2.4 nA leakage, at 530 Hz for a ... -
A 20 Channel EMG SoC with an Integrated 32b RISC Core for Real-Time Wireless Prosthetic Control
(2019)This work introduces a highly integrated and a power-efficient SoC with 20 EMG sensing channels, a 32b RISC core with a host of peripherals and a companion RF transceiver chip in the 55 nm CMOS technology to enable real-time ... -
A 4-GHz Low-Power, Multi-User Approximate Zero-IF FM-UWB Transceiver for IoT
(2019)This paper presents a 4-GHz FM ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver designed for the Internet of Things and body area network applications. Robustness to interferers and low power spectral density allow FM-UWB to coexist with ... -
Adaptation of MobileNetV2 for Face Detection on Ultra-Low Power Platform
(2022-06)Designing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) running on edge hardware remains a challenge. Standard designs have been adopted by the community to facilitate the deployment of Neural Network models. However, not much emphasis is ... -
Aircraft Strain WSN Powered by Heat Storage Harvesting
(2017)The combination of ultra-low-power wireless communications and energy harvesting enables the realization of autonomous wireless sensor networks. Such networks can be usefully applied in commercial aircraft where wireless ... -
Artificial Skin for Human Prostheses, Enabled Through Wireless Sensor Networks
(2017)The WiseSkin project aims at creating artificial skin that allows human patients with prosthetic limbs to regain their sense of touch. The system in charge of transferring the tactile information is based on a wireless ... -
Autonomous Electrical Current Monitoring System for Aircraft
(2022)Aircraft monitoring systems offer enhanced safety, reliability, reduced maintenance cost and improved overall flight efficiency. Advancements in wireless sensor networks (WSN) are enabling unprecedented data acquisition ... -
Benchmarking Neuromorphic Computing for Inference
(2022-06)In the last decade, there has been significant progress in the IoT domain due to the advances in the accuracy of neural networks and the industrialization of efficient neural network accelerator ASICs. However, intelligent ... -
Chipless biodegradable tags, theoretical performance estimation
(2022-11-14)This paper presents a theoretical study of two chipless biodegradable tags which potentially can provide temperature, and humidity estimation, as well as identification. The influence of the substrate material, as well as ... -
A Construction Kit for Efficient Low Power Neural Network Accelerator Designs
(2022-09)Implementing embedded neural network processing at the edge requires efficient hardware acceleration that combines high computational throughput with low power consumption. Driven by the rapid evolution of network architectures ... -
A Cost-effective Production Method for High-precision MM-wave Waveguide Antennas and Components
(2022-11-14)This paper presents a cost-effective production method for high-precision, complex 3D mm-wave components and antenna prototyping. The selected manufacturing process, Laser Powder bed fusion, has been optimized for high ... -
Deep Semantic Segmentation using NIR as extra physical information
(2019)Deep neural networks for semantic segmentation are most often trained with RGB color images, which encode the radiation visible to the human eyes. In this paper, we study if additional physical scene information, specifically ...