Publications associées à Microsemi

A High-performance, Low-cost PMU Prototype for Distribution Networks based on FPGA

The application of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) to the real-time monitoring, protection and control of Distribution Networks, requires the availability of high accuracy devices that are characterized at the same time by a reasonable cost. This paper pre ...

IEEE2017

Characterization and modeling of nanoscale MOSFET for ultra-low power RF IC design

Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki

The evolution and characteristics of the electronics is directly linked to the technological and societal progress. Today, there is a huge variety of electronic solutions offered, with the RF low-power systems, such as wireless sensor networks, wireless bo ...

EPFL2016

Electrothermal actuation of vanadium dioxide for tunable capacitors and microwave filters with integrated microheaters

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Antonio Paone, Luca Petit

We report the fabrication, modeling and characterization of novel microwave tunable capacitors based on the metal-insulator transition (MIT) of Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) as a future replacement solution for microelectromechanical capacitive switches. We prese ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

FFT Splitting for Improved FPGA-Based Acquisition of GNSS Signals

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

With modern global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals, the FFT-based parallel code search acquisition must handle the frequent sign transitions due to the data or the secondary code. There is a straightforward solution to this problem, which consis ...

2015

Low-power RF modeling of a 40nm CMOS technology using BSIM6

Christian Enz, Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki

The state-of-the-art scaled down CMOS processes have led to devices with extremely high Ft reaching several hundreds of GHz. This high F t can be traded with power consumption by moving the operating point towards weak inversion with Ft reaching tens of GH ...

2013

Wafer-fused heterostructures : application to vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers emitting in the 1310 nm band

Elyahou Kapon, Grigore Suruceanu, Alexandru Mereuta, Vladimir Iakovlev, Alexei Sirbu, Andrei Caliman

Currently, wafer-fusion technology represents an effective technique for enhancing the performance of long-wavelength vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on classical double heterostructures with multi-quantum well active regions. Using ...

Institute of Physics2011

Transient charge pumping as an efficient technique to measure low light intensity with PD SOI MOSFET

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Louis Harik

In this paper, we present a new method to measure light intensity in a floating body partially depleted SOI MOSFET. The photo-generated charge density in the MOSFET is converted into a charge pumping frequency needed to maintain the drain current at a cons ...

2008

SOI mixed-mode design techniques and case studies

Marija Blagojevic

Since the emergence of Silicon On Insulator (SOI) technology the research activities have been concentrated on a detailed analysis of SOI devices and their use in different application fields (low-voltage, low-power circuits, high temperature electronics, ...

EPFL2005