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Parallel Programmable Asynchronous Neighborhood Mechanism for Kohonen SOM Implemented in CMOS Technology

We present a new programmable neighborhood mechanism for hardware implemented Kohonen self-organizing maps (SOMs) with three different map topologies realized on a single chip. The proposed circuit comes as a fully parallel and asynchronous architecture. T ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Island-Based Adaptable Embedded System Design

David Atienza Alonso, Ivan Beretta

Nowadays, hardware devices are meant to host the execution of many complex, multi-core applications, whose functional and non-functional requirements vary according to the specific working domain. In this work, we propose a design methodology that combines ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Characterization and Implementation of Fault-Tolerant Vertical Links for 3-D Networks-on-Chip

Luca Benini, Federico Angiolini, Subhasish Mitra

Through silicon vias (TSVs) provide an efficient way to support vertical communication among different layers of a vertically stacked chip, enabling scalable 3-D networks-on-chip (NoC) architectures. Unfortunately, low TSV yields significantly impact the f ...

2011

Analysis and Modeling of On-Chip Power Combiners and Their Losses in LINC Transmitters

Adil Koukab

This paper presents a compact model for LINC (linear amplification with non linear components) transmitters an their power combiners. The study focuses on the detrimental effect of the transmission line nonidealities. A mathematical description of the syst ...

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Ceramic modules for micro solid-oxide fuel cells

Paul Muralt, Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Bo Jiang, Yan Yan

Micro solid-oxide fuel cells (μ-SOFCs) based on microfabrication processes are a promising alternative to batteries for supplying portable electronics, as very high energy densities may be achieved. However, a complete μ-SOFC module is a quite intricate st ...

IMAPS2011

Suspended SU-8 structures for monolithic microfluidic channels

Martinus Gijs, Thomas Lehnert, Sébastien Jiguet, Yves Moser, Riccardo Forti

SU-8 photoresist is commonly used in the field of microfabrication as structural material or for molding of microfluidic devices. One major limitation, however, is the difficulty to process partially freestanding SU-8 structures or monolithic closed caviti ...

Springer-Verlag2011

3D Thermal-Aware Floorplanner for Many-Core Single-Chip Systems

David Atienza Alonso, José Luis Ayala Rodrigo

Heat removal and power density distribution delivery have become two major reliability concerns in 3D stacked technology. In this paper, we propose a thermal-driven 3D floorplanner. Our contributions include: (1) a novel multi-objective formulation to cons ...

IEEE Press2011

Attaining Single-Chip, High-Performance Computing Through 3D Systems with Active Cooling

David Atienza Alonso, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly, Ayse Kivilcim Coskun, Jie Meng

Three-dimensional (3D) stacking is an attractive method for designing large manycore chips as it provides high transistor integration densities, improves manufacturing yield due to smaller chip area, reduces wirelength and capacitance, and enables heteroge ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

A 120mV startup circuit based on charge pump for energy harvesting circuits

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron

In this paper, a 120mV input startup circuit based on novel charge pump architecture is proposed. The startup circuit can boost input voltages ranging from 120mV to 300mV while supplying voltages 280mV to 1.6V at the output with approximately 23% efficienc ...

2011

Power/Performance Exploration of Single-core and Multi-core Processor Approaches for Biomedical Signal Processing

David Atienza Alonso, Andreas Peter Burg, Luca Benini, Ahmed Yasir Dogan

This study presents a single-core and a multi-core processor architecture for health monitoring systems where slow biosignal events and highly parallel computations exist. The single-core architecture is composed of a processing core (PC), an instruction m ...

Springer-Verlag Heidelberg2011

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