Within the past few decades, several micro and nano-electromechanical (MEMS and NEMS) accelerometers, magnetometers and vibration sensors utilizing various actuation and sensing mechanisms have been developed and demonstrated. ...

Various mixed-signal circuits form an integral part of modern electronic systems, whether portable or bench-top in size. Power converters, data converters and communication circuits are the three major categories of ...

Linear control techniques have been widely used to control non-isolated nonlinear DC-DC converters. Type-I, type-II and type-III controllers are some of the most widely used linear control techniques. However, when a linear ...

This dissertation proposes a new type of time-to-digital converter based on a resistor-capacitor (RC) delay line that offers low power consumption, high speed and high resolution with error-correction circuitry. The 14-bit, ...

Many applications demand precision oscillators, which are usually generated through employing resonators with high quality factor (Q). Quartz and MicroElectroMechanical systems (MEMS) are the most common precision resonators ...

A digital background calibration technique to treat capacitor mismatch, residue gain error and nonlinearity in a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) based on the split-ADC architecture (J. McNeill et al., “Split ...

The importance of high frequency noise performance is increasing in advanced bipolar and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) technologies because of the high demands of radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal ...

Enormous growth in silicon large scale integrated circuits (IC) has been accelerated by reducing the size of their fundamental elements such as complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors over the past fifty ...

Semiconductor devices have transformed the world through tremendous technological advances in all aspects of life imaginable. An important aspect of the research into improving these devices is computer-aided simulation ...

It is an exciting time for circuit designers working on beyond-CMOS logic and memory design. Many alternative technologies to conventional Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology have been proposed in ...