Publications associées à Chaîne d'acquisition

ANTIGONE: A Programmable Energy-Efficient Current Digitizer for an ISFET Wearable Sweat Sensing System

Maher Kayal, Evgenia Voulgari, François Krummenacher

This article describes the design and the characterization of the ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) built in AMS 0.35 m technology for low dc-current sensing. This energy-efficient ASIC was specifically d ...

2021

Sparse and Parametric Modeling with Applications to Acoustics and Audio

Helena Peic Tukuljac

Recent advances in signal processing, machine learning and deep learning with sparse intrinsic structure of data have paved the path for solving inverse problems in acoustics and audio. The main task of this thesis was to bridge the gap between the powerfu ...

EPFL2020

Analysis of photosensor frontends for biomedical applications: a focus on noise

Paul Stanislas Gosselin

Photosensing has proven to be highly useful in biomedical research and medical care. Being able to detect and quantify the light emitted by fluorescent or bioluminescent reporters has significantly participated in the development of new cancer treatments a ...

EPFL2019

Learning-Based Hardware Design for Data Acquisition Systems

Cosimo Aprile

This multidisciplinary research work aims to investigate the optimized information extraction from signals or data volumes and to develop tailored hardware implementations that trade-off the complexity of data acquisition with that of data processing, conc ...

EPFL2018

Spatial multiplexing of soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Arslan Sajid Raja

Dual-comb interferometry utilizes two optical frequency combs to map the optical field's spectrum to a radio-frequency signal without using moving parts, allowing improved speed and accuracy. However, the method is compounded by the complexity and demandin ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Influence of physiological noise on accelerated 2D and 3D resting state functional MRI data at 7 T

Rolf Gruetter, Wietske Van der Zwaag, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Olivier Benoit Thomas Reynaud, João Pedro Forjaco Jorge

Physiological noise often dominates the blood-oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal fluctuations in high-field functional MRI (fMRI) data. Therefore, to optimize fMRI protocols, it becomes crucial to investigate how physiological signal fluctuations impact ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Simultaneous and interleaved acquisition of NMR signals from different nuclei with a clinical MRI scanner

Rolf Gruetter

PURPOSE: Modification of a clinical MRI scanner to enable simultaneous or rapid interleaved acquisition of signals from two different nuclei. METHODS: A device was developed to modify the local oscillator signal fed to the receive channel(s) of an MRI cons ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

184 mu W ultrasonic on-off keying/amplitude-shift keying demodulator for downlink communication in deep implanted medical devices

Catherine Dehollain, Francesco Mazzilli

An ultrasonic on-off keying/amplitude-shift keying demodulator using standard 0.18 mu m CMOS technology is proposed, intended for recovering the identification number of an implanted medical device transmitted from an external base station. The CMOS integr ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2016

The upgraded Collective Thomson Scattering diagnostics of FTU

Cristian Galperti, Gabriele Grosso

The 140 GHz Collective Thomson Scattering (CTS) diagnostics installed on the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade (FTU) has been upgraded. The new system now is ready both to detect the thermal CTS radiation (for the first time with the probe frequency below the 1st h ...

Elsevier2015

Extension of ultrasound Fourier slice Imaging theory to sectorial acquisition

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Adrien Georges Jean Besson, Olivier Bernard

Ultrasound image reconstruction from the echoes received by an ultrasound probe after the transmission of diverging waves is an active area of research because of its capacity to insonify at ultra-high frame rate with large regions of interest using small ...

2015

Compressed Sensing of Memoryless Sources : A Deterministic Hadamard Construction

Saeid Haghighatshoar

Compressed sensing is a new trend in signal processing for efficient sampling and signal acquisition. The idea is that most real-world signals have a sparse representation in an appropriate basis and this can be exploited to capture the sparse signal by ta ...

EPFL2014

An Efficient Time-frequency Algorithm for the Weak Signal Acquisition of Modernized GNSS Signals

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère, Vincenzo Capuano, Jia Tian, Yanguang Wang

The new GPS/Galileo/Compass signals use much longer code lengths and higher code frequencies than the GPS L1 C/A signal. As a result, they can provide improved ranging and anti-jamming performances. Unfortunately, their acquisition complexity is significan ...

2014

Affect Recognition Based on Physiological Changes During the Watching of Music Video

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jean-Marc Vesin, Jong Seok Lee, Ashkan Yazdani

Assessing emotional states of users evoked during their multimedia consumption has received a great deal of attention with recent advances in multimedia content distribution technologies and increasing interest in personalized content delivery. Physiologic ...

2012

Distributed Brillouin sensing with sub-meter spatial resolution: modeling and processing

Luc Thévenaz, Stella Foaleng Mafang

A general analytic solution for Brillouin distributed sensing in optical fibers with sub-meter spatial resolution is obtained by solving the acoustical-optical coupled wave equations by a perturbation method. The Brillouin interaction of a triad of square ...

Optical Society of America2011

Intracellular nanomanipulation by a photonic-force microscope with real-time acquisition of a 3D stiffness matrix

Michaël Unser, László Forró, Giovanni Dietler, Andrzej Kulik, Philippe Thévenaz, Elena Bertseva, Gérard Gremaud, Sylvia Jeney, Stefania Puttini, Amardeep Singh

A traditional photonic-force microscope (PFM) results in huge sets of data, which requires tedious numerical analysis. In this paper, we propose instead an analog signal processor to attain real-time capabilities while retaining the richness of the traditi ...

Institute of Physics2009

Source coding in sensor networks

Robert Konsbruck

Wireless sensor networks have emerged as versatile tools to monitor the evolution of physical fields over large areas by means of self-powered and low-cost sensing devices. Although their development was originally motivated by military applications, they ...

EPFL2009

A Generalized Sampling Method for Finite-Rate-of-Innovation-Signal Reconstruction

Michaël Unser, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

The problem of sampling signals that are not admisible within the classical Shannon framework has received much attention in the recent past. Typically, these signals have a parametric representation with a finite number of degrees of freedom per time unit ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2008

A Subthreshold SCL Based Pipelined Encoder for Ultra-Low Power 8-bit Folding/Interpolating ADC

Seyed Armin Tajalli, Yusuf Leblebici, Mohammad Beikahmadi

The subthreshold MOS source-coupled logic (STSCL) technique is of great interest for designing ultra low power circuits. In this paper we discuss the design of a pipelined encoder for an 8-bit folding and interpolating (F&I) analog-to-digital (ADC) data co ...

NORCHIP2008