Publications related to Standby power

In-Sensor Passive Speech Classification with Phononic Metamaterials

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Daniel Moreno Garcia

Mitigating the energy requirements of artificial intelligence requires novel physical substrates for computation. Phononic metamaterials have vanishingly low power dissipation and hence are a prime candidate for green, always-on computers. However, their u ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Intelligent RF System for Ultra Low Power Spectrum Sensing with Machine Learning

Naci Pekçokgüler

The crowdedness of the RF spectrum constitutes problems in communication, however it also accommodates large amount of useful information. This information can be used to determine existing signals and operating contexts. However, spectrum condition varies ...

EPFL2024

A 0.21-ps FOM Capacitor-Less Analog LDO with Dual-Range Load Current for Biomedical Applications

Mahsa Shoaran, Yasemin Engür

This paper presents an output capacitor-less low-dropout regulator (LDO) with a bias switching scheme for biomedical applications with dual-range load currents. Power optimization is crucial for systems with multiple activation modes such as neural interfa ...

ArXiv2023

Ultra-Low Power Short-Range 60-GHz FMCW Radar Front-End

Sammy Cerida Rengifo

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band is becoming very interesting over the past years because it provides the opportunity to operate using large bandwidths which are not available at lower frequencies. This enables new communication standards suppor ...

EPFL2023

Hardware Implementation of Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for Programmable Epilepsy Control Systems

Keyvan Farhang Razi

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that causes recurring seizures and affects more than 50 million people worldwide. Implantable medical devices (IMDs) are regarded as effective tools to cure patients who suffer from refractory epilepsy. Se ...

EPFL2023

Estimating Auxiliary Power Supply Consumption of the Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule for the Condition Health Monitoring

Drazen Dujic, Ignacio Alejandro Polanco Lobos

Condition health monitoring strategies applied to different power electronics applications are gaining popularity as early component degradation detection can trigger preventive maintenance actions before a significant fault occurs. In highly modular conve ...

2022

At the end of scaling: 2D materials for computing and sensing applications

Nicolò Oliva

In the past half-century, the digital revolution completely changed the world we live in and the ways we experience it. Over this period, the underlying force supporting the continuous technological development has been the geometrical scaling of transisto ...

EPFL2020

MEMS-Enabled Silicon Photonic Integrated Devices and Circuits

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Yu Zhang

Photonic integrated circuits have seen a dramatic increase in complexity over the past decades. This development has been spurred by recent applications in datacenter communications and enabled by the availability of standardized mature technology platform ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

On Power Scalability of Modular Multilevel Converters: Increasing Current Ratings Through Branch Paralleling

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) presented in Figure 1 found its place within highvoltage and medium-voltage (MV) applications owing to the possibility of effortlessly meeting the imposed voltage requirements by stacking the so-called submodules (SMs ...

2020

Biosensors for Bimolecular Computing: a Review and Future Perspectives

Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Simone Aiassa

Biomolecular computing is the field of engineering where computation, storage, communication, and coding are obtained by exploiting interactions between biomolecules, especially DNA, RNA, and enzymes. They are a promising solution in a long-term vision, br ...

SPRINGER2020

A Hybrid Cache HW/SW Stack for Optimizing Neural Network Runtime, Power and Endurance

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, William Andrew Simon

Hybrid caches consisting of both SRAM and emerging Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (eNVRAM) bitcells increase cache capacity and reduce power consumption by taking advantage of eNVRAM's small area footprint and low leakage energy. However, they also inhe ...

2020

Analogue computing with metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad

Despite their widespread use for performing advanced computational tasks, digital signal processors suffer from several restrictions, including low speed, high power consumption and complexity, caused by costly analogue-to-digital converters. For this reas ...

2021

Polarity-Controllable Devices and Circuits for Doping-Free 2D Electronics

Giovanni Vincenzo Resta

The growth of information technology has been sustained by the miniaturization of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Field-Effect Transistors (FETs), with the number of devices per unit area constantly increasing, as exemplified by Mooreâ s la ...

EPFL2019

COREDIV numerical simulation of high neutron rate JET-ILW DD pulses in view of extension to JET-ILW DT experiments

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yiming Li, Basil Duval, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Alessandro Pau, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Cristian Sommariva, Sun Hee Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Yann Camenen, Haomin Sun, Jan Horacek, Michele Marin, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Francesca Maria Poli, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Nicola Vianello, Soo-Jin Moon, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Federico Nespoli, Daniel Scott Alessi, Yao Zhou, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Davide Galassi, Ricardo Lima, Julio Rodriguez, Hamish William Patten, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Electron Spin Resonance detectors from 400 MHz to 360 GHz

Alessandro Valentino Matheoud

Methods based on the electron spin resonance (ESR) phenomenon are non-invasive tools adopted to investigate paramagnetic systems at temperatures ranging from above 1000 K to below 1 K. Since 2008, the group of Dr. Boero has been working on a detection tech ...

EPFL2019

Ultra-Low-Power Intelligent Acoustic Sensing using Cochlea-Inspired Feature Extraction and DNN Classification

Christian Enz, Minhao Yang

We present our recent progress in ultra-low-power intelligent acoustic sensing that harnesses the high power and energy efficiency of cochlea-like analog feature extraction and binarized neural network classification. Compared with conventional methods inc ...

IEEE2019

Silicon Photonic MEMS: Exploiting Mechanics at the Nanoscale to Enhance Photonic Integrated Circuits

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Banafsheh Abasahl, Yu Zhang, Shiv Ashish Kumar

With the maturing and the increasing complexity of Silicon Photonics technology, novel avenues are pursued to reduce power consumption and to provide enhanced functionality: exploiting mechanical movement in advanced Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits pr ...

IEEE2019

Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space

Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Today, the semiconductor industry is feeding our digital world with more and more data coming from compact embedded electronics that are monitoring our environment and feeding analytics for action. Interaction with our digital world is mostly achieved thro ...

EPFL2019

Adaptive Receiver Design for High Speed Optical Communication

Ilter Ozkaya

Conventional input/output (IO) links consume power, independent of changes in the bandwidth demand by the system they are deployed in. As the system is designed to satisfy the peak bandwidth demand, most of the time the IO links are idle but still consumin ...

EPFL2018

A 32kHz crystal oscillator leveraging voltage scaling in an ultra-low power 40nA real-time clock

Maher Kayal, Luca Rossi, François Krummenacher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

In this paper, an ultra-low power consumption crystal oscillator embedded in an RTC module (ASIC and its crystal resonator) is presented. The technique leverages oscillation amplitude and loads capacitance scaling; it incorporates transistor level merging ...

IEEE2018