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Power Aware Placement of On-Chip Voltage Regulators

In traditional power delivery networks, the on-chip supply voltage is provided by board-level converters. Due to the significant distance between the converter and the load, variations in the load current are not effectively managed, producing a significan ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Dynamics analysis for DC transformers integration in hybrid AC‐DC power distribution networks

Drazen Dujic, Andrea Cervone, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Max Dupont, Renan Pillon Barcelos

In AC/DC power distributions networks, power converters are interfacing buses to ensure DC voltage regulation and power distribution. Active front ends are used between AC and DC buses and two typical control schemes that can be implemented are voltage reg ...

2023

Low Power LDPC Decoding by Reliable Voltage Down-Scaling

Andreas Peter Burg

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoder is among the power hungry building blocks of wireless communication systems. Voltage scaling down to Near-Threshold (NT) voltages substantially improves energy efficiency, in theory up 10x. However, tuning the voltag ...

IEEE2023

Stretchable tubular device and use thereof as a counterpulsation device

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Morgan Almanza

The present invention is related to a stretchable tubular device (1) comprising at least one layer (Lx) of a stretchable polymer, a power supply (2) and a set of electrodes (3a, 3b) connected to said power supply (2). The power supply can supply at least a ...

2021

Control Strategy for the Discharge Phase of an Ultra-High Voltage (>7kV) Bi-Directional Flyback Converter Driving Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) require ultra high voltages in the order of several kilo volts to operate. To supply such voltages, a DC-DC flyback converter topology was selected. One of the main advantage of using such a structure is the possibilit ...

IEEE2020

Multi-level high-voltage power supply for dea application

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Morgan Almanza, Lucas Pniak, Lucas Depreux

In order to reap the benefits of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA) high energy density, the electronics powering the actuator should be as small as possible. Knowing that only a small fraction of the energy delivered to DEAs is effectively converted into ...

2019

A Dual-Edge Pulsewidth Modulator for Fast Dynamic Response DC-DC Converters

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Giacomo Ripamonti, Stefano Michelis, Federico Faccio

Voltage regulator modules are dc-dc converters that power modern microprocessors. They must exhibit a fast dynamic response, in order to achieve satisfactory regulation performance in spite of the rapid load current variations. The pulsewidth modulator is ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Taming the viscoelastic creep of dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin

We present a simple open-loop method to suppress the viscoelastic drift of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs). Viscoelastic creep is one of the drawbacks of DEAs, especially when made with acrylic elastomer membranes (VHB). This leads to a time-dependen ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Design techniques for a stable operation of cryogenic field-programmable gate arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

In this paper, we show how a deep-submicron field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can be operated more stably at extremely low temperatures through special firmware design techniques. Stability at low temperatures is limited through long power supply wires ...

2018

System Design and Advanced Circuit Techniques for Bi-Directional Brain-Machine Interfaces

Wen-Yang Hsu

Bi-directional brain-machine interfaces (BBMIs) that can capture electrophysiological signals and provide feedback through electrical stimulation are emerging tools with various applica-tions in fundamental neuroscience research as well as in clinical trea ...

EPFL2018

Physical Design Considerations of One-level RRAM-based Routing Multiplexers

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Edouard Giacomin

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) technology opens the opportunity for granting both high-performance and low- power features to routing multiplexers. In this paper, we study the physical design considerations related to RRAM- based routing mult ...

ACM2017

Enhancing the Provision of Ancillary Services from Storage Systems using Smart Transformer and Smart Meters

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Konstantina Christakou, Xiang Gao

The Smart Transformer, a solid-state transformer with control and communication functionalities, can be the ideal solution for integrating storage into the grid. By leveraging the knowledge of the grid state of distribution grids thanks to smart meters and ...

IEEE2017

Remotely powered PPM demodulator by inductive coupling for rodent applications

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Kerim Türe, Franco Maloberti

A low-power pulse position modulation (PPM) demodulator has been developed for remotely powered batteryless implantable devices. The required power for the implantable device is provided by the magnetic coupling with the external array of powering of coils ...

Springer Verlag2016

Passive UHF RFID Systems for Capacitive Sensing Applications

Kerem Kapucu

In this work, a complete passive UHF RFID system for capacitive sensing applications is developed to be used in food quality monitoring and supply chain management. All the components of the RFID system including the base station, the base station antenna, ...

EPFL2015

Upgrade of a 30 kV/10 mA anode power supply for triode type gyrotron

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Philippe Marmillod, Albert Perez, Blaise Marlétaz

The RF power of a gyrotron with a triode type magnetron-injection-gun (MIG) can be directly controlled via the voltage applied between its anode and its cathode. Hence, the performance of this type of gyrotron relies directly on the possibilities offered b ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

A 15 mu W 5.5 kS/s Resistive Sensor Readout Circuit with 7.6 ENOB

Catherine Dehollain

A low power SAR logic-based resistive sensor readout circuit is proposed. A high sensitivity thermistor is used for local temperature measurements. The need for a low-noise front-end voltage amplifier is avoided by employing time-domain operation. In each ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Multi-level wordline driver for robust SRAM design in nano-scale CMOS technology

Georgios Karakonstantis

In this paper, a multi-level wordline driver scheme is presented to improve 6T-SRAM read and write stability. The proposed wordline driver generates a shaped pulse during the read mode and a boosted wordline during the write mode. During read, the shaped p ...

Elsevier2014

Design of a Passive UHF RFID Tag for Capacitive Sensor Applications

Catherine Dehollain, Kerem Kapucu

In this work, the design of a passive UHF RFID tag for sensor applications is described. The system level design issues are discussed taking into account the possible operation scenarios. Among the blocks in the tag, the emphasis is on the design of the re ...

Ieee2013

FireBird: PowerPC e200 Based SoC for High Temperature Operation

Andreas Peter Burg, Yusuf Leblebici, Thomas Maeder, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Conor Joseph Slater, Ömer Cogal, Carl Christian Sten Dominic Senning, Radisav Cojbasic

PowerPC Architecture microcontrollers are commonly used in embedded applications. In this work we present FireBird, the first PowerPC based SoC for reliable operation beyond 200C. It is a significant challenge to design SoCs for reliable operation at high ...

2013

A Closed-Loop Remote Powering Link for Wireless Cortical Implants

Catherine Dehollain, Michel Declercq, Kanber Mithat Silay

This paper presents a closed-loop remote powering link for wireless cortical implants. The link operates from a single power supply at the external reader and delivers power to the implant adaptively under changing load conditions. A feedback information i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013