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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Low-power circuit"”.
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Carbon nanotube-based nanorelays for low-power circuit applications
… objective of this research is to reduce static power dissipation by developing a vertically-oriented carbon nanotube-based nanoelectromechanical switch that has no off-state leakage current. This switch, called a nanorelay, is a mechanical switch that uses a carbon nanotube as the active …
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An approach to improving the power management system in electronic devices
The current power management technology baseline does not address the increasing gap between system charge performance and functionality needs in a smartphone. This gap can eventually inhibit further increases in functionality and develop a balancing loop effect that reduces smartphone growth …
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An integrated design strategy for a range of industrial electronic pressure instrumentation
… digital pressure instruments, namely a battery - powered stand alone unit, a retransmitting version and an intrinsically safe version of the battery powered unit. Their implementation takes into account many design issues including ease of manufacturing, low power circuit design and …
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Input-Pattern-Independent Estimation of Peak Current, Peak Power Dissipation, and Maximum Voltage Variation in the Power Distribution Network of VLSI Circuits
Technology scaling improves the performance of circuits, but also increases the interactions between elements and increases the internal stresses in the circuit. For the design of reliable circuits, estimation of the worst-case attributes of the electrical/thermal interactions and the internal …
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Power-efficient design of 16-bit mixed-operand multipliers
Multiplication is an expensive and slow arithmetic operation, which plays an important role in many DSP algorithms. It usually lies in the critical-delay paths, having an effect on performance of the system as well as consuming large power. Consequently, significant improvements in both power and …
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Subthreshold leakage control techniques for low power digital circuits
Scaling and power reduction trends in future technologies will cause subthreshold leakage currents to become an increasingly large component of total power dissipation. As a result, new techniques are needed in order to provide high performance and low power circuit operation. This dissertation …
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Distributed Algorithms for Tasking Large Sensor Networks
… communications along with developments in low-power circuit design and micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) have heralded the advent of compact and inexpensive wireless micro-sensor devices. A large network of such sensor nodes capable of communicating with each other provides …
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Ultra-dynamic voltage scalable (U-DVS) SRAM design considerations
… of these challenges is the incessant increase of power consumption in integrated circuits. This problem has motivated the industry and academia to pay significant attention to low-power circuit design for the past two decades. Operating digital circuits at lower voltage levels was shown to …
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Parallel architectures for entropy coding in a dual-standard ultra-HD video encoder
… increase in resolution requirements and the slower increase in energy capacity demand more aggressive low-power circuit design techniques to maintain battery life of hand-held multimedia devices. As the operating voltage is lowered to reduce power consumption, the maximum operating frequency …
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Glucose-powered neuroelectronics
… harvesting from their surroundings all of the power they require. As implantable electronic devices become increasingly prevalent in scientific research and in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of human disease, there is correspondingly increasing demand for devices with unlimited …
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TFTs circuit simulation models and analogue building block designs
Building functional thin-film-transistor (TFT) circuits is crucial for applications such as wearable, implantable and transparent electronics. Therefore, developing a compact model of an emerging semiconductor material for accurate circuit simulation is the most fundamental requirement for circuit …
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Circuit designs for low-power and SEU-hardened systems
… the MOS devices used for present day integrated circuits are pushed to the limit in terms of performance, power consumption and robustness, which are the most critical criteria for almost all applications. Secondly, technology advancements have led to design of complex chips with increasing chip …
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Image compression and energy harvesting for energy constrained sensors
… of electronic system into a single integrated circuit. Ultra-low power circuit techniques have reduced the power consumption of circuits. Moreover, solar cells with improved efficiency can be integrated on chip to harvest energy from sunlight. As a result of all the above, a new class of …
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Energy processing circuits for low-power applications
… or implantable biomedical devices. New ultra-low power circuit techniques are constantly being proposed to further improve the energy efficiency of electronic circuits. A critical part of these energy conscious systems are the energy processing and power delivery circuits that interface with …
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Circuit and algorithm design to enable edge intelligence
… on resource-constrained devices with a slowly-evolving technology node. Moreover, as an emerging field, a systematic investigation is required to facilitate future EI research. This work tends to provide such a comprehensive study on circuit and algorithm solutions for edge intelligence. …