Publications related to Oversampling

A 1-GS/s 6-8-b Cryo-CMOS SAR ADC for Quantum Computing

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano, Alessandro Catania

This article presents a two-times interleaved, loop-unrolled SAR analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operational from 300 down to 4.2 K. The 6-8-bit resolution and the sampling speed up to 1 GS/s are targeted at digitizing the multi-channel frequency-multipl ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Step Change Detection for Improved ROCOF Evaluation of Power System Waveforms

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Alexandra Cameron Karpilow, Guglielmo Frigo

In the analysis of power grid waveforms, the presence of amplitude or phase steps can disrupt the estimation of frequency and rate-of-change-of-frequency (ROCOF). Standard methods based on phasor-models fail in the extraction of signal parameters during th ...

IEEE2022

An 8-Bit 800 MS/s Loop-Unrolled SAR ADC With Common-Mode Adaptive Background Offset Calibration in 28 nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a low-power single-channel 8-bit loop-unrolled (LU) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) with a novel common-mode adaptive background comparator offset calibration scheme. LU-SAR ADCs use multiple co ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Towards a standardization of biomethane potential tests: a commentary

Christof Holliger

Inter-laboratory reproducibility of biomethane potential (BMP) is dismal, with differences in BMP values for the same sample exceeding a factor of two in some cases. A large group of BMP researchers directly addressed this problem during a workshop held in ...

IWA PUBLISHING2021

High-Speed ADC Design and Optimization for Wireline Links

Ayça Akkaya

The ever-growing global internet traffic has increased demand for higher speed data transmission. As the bandwidth requirements of wireline links increase, extensive digital equalization techniques are required to compensate for the high-frequency channel ...

EPFL2021

Deep Image Restoration: Between Data Fidelity and Learned Priors

Majed El Helou

Image restoration reconstructs, as faithfully as possible, an original image from a potentially degraded version of it. Image degradations can be of various types, for instance haze, unwanted reflections, optical or spectral aberrations, or other physicall ...

EPFL2021

An Event-Based System for Low-Power ECG QRS Complex Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Silvio Zanoli, Fabio Montagna

One of the greatest challenges in the design of modern wearable devices is energy efficiency. While data processing and communication have received a lot of attention from the industry and academia, leading to highly efficient microcontrollers and transmis ...

IEEE2020

Design and Optimization of Low Power and Low Light Sensor

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone, Raffaele Capoccia

The current trend towards embedding more and more light sensors in portable and wearable devices is calling for higher integration and reuse of the sensor interface electronics. In many applications, the light needs to be generated locally, which becomes t ...

IEEE2020

Hot Carrier Mobility Dynamics Unravel Competing Subpicosecond Processes in Lead Halide Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Andrés Burgos Caminal, Arun Aby Paraecattil, Ahmad Ajdar Zadeh Oskouei, Juan Manuel Moreno Naranjo, Aurélien René Willauer

The mechanisms behind the large photocarrier diffusion length and the outstanding photovoltaic performances of lead halide perovskites (LHP) are still debated. Hot carrier cooling and the formation of polarons are central to the charge separation process. ...

2021

On the 2D Post-Processing of Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Simon Adrien Zaslawski

The benefits and limitations inherent to the 2D post-processing of measurements from Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers are investigated from a fundamental point of view. In a preliminary step, the impact of curve fitting on the precision of the estim ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Event-Triggered Sensing for High-Quality and Low-Power Cardiovascular Monitoring Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

In the context of wearable medical systems, resources are scarce while performance requirements are high. Traditional sampling strategies create large amounts of data, which hinders the device's battery lifetime. However, energy savings are possible when r ...

2019

Analysis of the sensitivity of the hydromorphological index of diversity, HMID

Anton Schleiss, Walter Gostner, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Severin Stähly, Christopher Robinson

Hydromorphological conditions are a key factor for the habitat diversity in riverine ecosystems. The Hydromorphological Index of Diversity (HMID) is a tool to quantify the habitat diversity in a river reach based on local flow depths and flow velocities. T ...

2018

A 10b SAR ADC with Widely Scalable Sampling Rate and AGC Amplifier Front-End

Seyed Armin Tajalli, Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a low power successive approximation register (SAR) ADC and its front-end automatic gain control (AGC) amplifier designed in 65nm CMOS technology. Digitally controlled variable gain amplifier (VGA) in AGC loop is used to maximize the dy ...

IEEE2018

A Sub-μW/Channel, 16-Channel Seizure Detection and Signal Acquisition SoC Based on Multichannel Compressive Sensing

Alexandre Schmid, Reza Ranjandish

An accurate 16-channel seizure detection system-on-chip is presented, which is based on extracting features from the compressed recorded data using multichannel compressive sensing (MCS). MCS is used to reduce the transmission data rate of sparse biologica ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Pump-linewidth-tolerant wavelength multicasting using soliton Kerr frequency combs

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Lin Zhang, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei

We experimentally demonstrate pump-linewidth-tolerant wavelength multicasting using microresonator-based soliton Kerr frequency combs. When Kerr comb lines serve as coherent pumps in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide, the linewidth of the mult ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

Compressive Sampling Using Annihilating Filter-Based Low-Rank Interpolation

Kyong Hwan Jin

While the recent theory of compressed sensing provides an opportunity to overcome the Nyquist limit in recovering sparse signals, a solution approach usually takes the form of an inverse problem of an unknown signal, which is crucially dependent on specifi ...

IEEE2017

A reconfigurable cryogenic platform for the classical control of quantum processors

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle, Fabio Sebastiano

The implementation of a classical control infrastructure for large-scale quantum computers is challenging due to the need for integration and processing time, which is constrained by coherence time. We propose a cryogenic reconfigurable platform as the hea ...

2017

Analysis of CMS noise reduction for 65 nm CIS

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Raffaele Capoccia

This work explores the combination of a downscaled technology with in-pixel source-follower (SF) optimization, a high column-level gain and an analog implementation of Correlated-Multiple-Sampling (CMS) for noise reduction of CIS readout chains. Transient ...

2017

A Cryogenic 1 GSa/s, Soft-Core FPGA ADC for Quantum Computing Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

We propose an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architecture, implemented in an FPGA, that is fully reconfigurable and easy to calibrate. This approach allows to alter the design, according to the system requirements, with simple modifications in the firmw ...

2016

Deployment and Performance Analyses of High-Resolution Iowa XPOL Radar System during the NASA IFloodS Campaign

Jacopo Grazioli, Kumar Vijay Mishra

This article presents the data collected and analyzed using the University of Iowa's X-band polarimetric (XPOL) radars that were part of the spring 2013 hydrology-oriented Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) field campaign, sponsored by NASA's Global Precipitatio ...

American Meteorological Society2016