Publications related to Analog television

Front-End Circuits for Radiation-Hard Monolithic CMOS Sensors targeting High-Energy Physics Applications

Monolithic pixel sensors integrate the sensor matrix and readout in the same silicon die, and therefore present several advantages over the more largely used hybrid detectors in high-energy physics. They offer an easier detector assembly, lower cost, lower ...

EPFL2023

A 32 Gb/s PAM-16 TX and ADC-Based RX AFE with 2-tap embedded analog FFE in 28 nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a 32 Gb/s 16-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-16) source-series-terminated transmitter (TX) and a receiver (RX) analog front-end (AFE) in 28 nm FDSOI. The 8-way time-interleaved successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-dig ...

2021

Pulses in Upward Negative Lightning at the Säntis Tower in Northeastern Switzerland

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Davide Pavanello, Lixia He

Upward lightning happens predominantly from tall objects. The channel-base currents associated with upward negative lightning initiated from towers exhibit pulses that can be classified, based on their waveform features and on the concurrence with other pr ...

2019

An analog high-speed single-cycle lock-in amplifier for next generation AFM experiments

Georg Fantner, Jens Anders, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt

In this paper, we present a new architecture for analog amplitude demodulation in high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) applications. It features single-cycle capabilities and the possibility to work with elevated cantilever resonance frequencies up to ...

IEEE2018

Analysis, Optimization, and Modeling of Analog Multi-Tone Serial Data Transceivers

Yusuf Leblebici, Gain Kim, Kiarash Gharibdoust

This paper presents a versatile and fast time-domain architectural modeling framework for high-speed serial data transceivers (TRX) that can employ various analog modulation schemes. We highlight a modeling of TRXs employing an analog multi-tone signaling, ...

2017

A low-voltage CMOS-compatible time-domain photodetector, device & front end electronics

Denis Sallin

During the last decades, the usage of silicon photodetectors, both as stand-alone sensor or integrated in arrays, grew tremendously. They are now found in almost any application and any market range, from leisure products to high-end scientific apparatuses ...

EPFL2016

FOSS EKV 2.6 parameter extractor

Jean-Michel Sallese, Farzan Jazaeri, Wladyslaw Grabinski, Antonios Bazigos, Anurag Mangla, Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki

The design of advanced integrated circuits (IC) in particular for low power analog and radio-frequency (RF) application becomes more complex as the device level modeling confronting challenges in micro- and nano-meter CMOS processes. As present CMOS techno ...

Ieee2015

HDR image compression: a new challenge for objective quality metrics

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging is able to capture a wide range of luminance values, closer to what the human visual system can perceive. It is believed by many that HDR is a technology that will revolutionize TV and cinema industry similar to how color t ...

2014

Modeling nanoscale quasi-ballistic MOS transistors : a circuit design perspective

Anurag Mangla

The scaling of device technologies poses new challenges, not only in circuit design, but also in device modeling, especially because of the short-channel effects and the emergence of novel phenomena like ballistic transport. Nonetheless, it enables the des ...

EPFL2014

Three-dimensional measurements of non-diffusive fast ion transport in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet

In the basic plasma physics device TORPEX, progress in the fundamental understanding of supra-thermal ion transport is achieved by extensive sets of three-dimensional (3D) data, together with numerical simulations of supra-thermal ion tracers in fluid turb ...

2013

Polar Codes For Broadcast Channels

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Emmanuel Abbé, Naveen Goela

Building on polar code constructions proposed by the authors for deterministic broadcast channels, two theorems are introduced in the present paper for noisy two-user broadcast channels. The theorems establish polar code constructions for two important ...

2013

Design and Exploration of Low-Power Analog to Information Conversion Based on Compressed Sensing

David Atienza Alonso, Pierre Vandergheynst, Nadia Khaled, Hossein Mamaghanian

The long-standing analog-to-digital conversion paradigm based on Shannon/Nyquist sampling has been challenged lately, mostly in situations such as radar and communication signal processing where signal bandwidth is so large that sampling architectures cons ...

2012

Low-Power Circuits and Systems Design for Data Acquisition and Transmission in a Wireless Cortical Implant

Vahid Majidzadeh Bafar

Minimally invasive monitoring of the electrical activity of specific cortical areas using implantable microsystems offers the promise of diagnosing neurological diseases, as well as detecting and identifying neural activity patterns which are specific to a ...

EPFL2012

Ray tracing study for non-imaging daylight collectors

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Friedrich Linhart, Stephen Wittkopf, Raphaël Compagnon, Lars Oliver Grobe

This paper presents a novel method to study how well non-imaging daylight collectors pipe diffuse daylight into long horizontal funnels for illuminating deep buildings. Forward ray tracing is used to derive luminous intensity distributions curves (LIDC) of ...

2010

Nanowatt Range Folding-Interpolating ADC Using Subthreshold Source-Coupled Circuits

Seyed Armin Tajalli, Yusuf Leblebici

A very low power mixed-signal design methodology based on subthreshold source-coupled circuits is presented, and a nano-Watt range analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit based on folding-interpolating topology is proposed as a complete design example. T ...

2010

Electron beam characterization of a combined diode rf electron gun

Christoph Peter Hauri, Rasmus Ischebeck, Stefan Yves Gabriel Binder

Experimental and simulation results of an electron gun test facility, based on pulsed diode acceleration followed by a two-cell rf cavity at 1.5 GHz, are presented here. The main features of this diode-rf combination are: a high peak gradient in the diode ...

American Physical Society2010

METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING DATA ENCODED BY PPM MODULATION, AND RECEIVER FOR SAID METHOD

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron

The invention relates to a method for identifying a datum Sk that includes: a) constructing (84) a chronological series {T1;...; Ti;...; TN} of the arrival times Ti of consecutive pulses or pulse blocks; b) calculating (96) a resemblance value among said s ...

2009

Mixed-domain system representation using Volterra series

Martin Hasler

Mixed-signal systems combine analog and digital signal processing in one overall design that should be integrated as a single system on chip. At system level, the separation into isolated subsystem representations for analog and digital parts needs to be o ...

IEEE2008