Maher Kayal

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This article describes the design and the characterization of the ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) built in AMS 0.35 m technology for low dc-current sensing. This energy-efficient ASIC was specifically d ...

2021

Cooperative energy management of a community of smart-buildings: A Blockchain approach

Maher Kayal, Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

Demand Response (DR) is progressively moving from a centralized, unidirectional structure to a set of advanced decentralized mechanisms that better balance distributed supply and demand. This paper presents a decentralized cooperative DR framework to manag ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

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

A high sensitivity low-power capacitive front-end for insulin injection pens

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Jean-Baptiste Robert Orhan, François Pierre Gaugaz

A low-power 14-bits first order incremental Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is presented. Based on the charge balancing principle, this switched-capacitor (SC) circuit integrates the input signal multiple times to reach the targeted resolution, linearity ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

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Harvesting energy from ambient energy sources, such as thermal gradients is one solution to address the dramatic increase in energy consumption of personal electronics. While in the field, energy abundantly available in form of heat. The use of primary cel ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

A programmable low-power ADC interface for an ISFET sweat sensor used in a wearable multi-sensing system

Maher Kayal, Evgenia Voulgari, François Krummenacher

An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) named ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) was designed in AMS 0.35 mu m technology to interface with four Ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) sensors and perform real-time monitoring of some bi ...

IEEE2019

Most medium and large commercial buildings in the U.S. are subject to complex electricity tariffs that combine both Time-of-Use (TOU) energy and demand charges. This study analyses the performances of different economic Model Predictive Control (MPC) formu ...

IEEE2019

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This paper presents the design of the ANTIGONE ASIC in AMS 0.35 mu m technology that interfaces with ion-sensitive field effect transistors (ISFETs) to detect biomarkers like pH, Na+ and K+ in human sweat. The ISFET sensors generate a low current dc signal ...

IEEE2019

Subthreshold Logic for Low-Area and Energy Efficient True Random Number Generator

Maher Kayal, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans, Thomas Eberhardt, Laurent Fesquet

This paper discusses the advantages of subthreshold logic for True Random Number Generators (TRNG). In this work, the entropy is modeled, and a lower bound of Shannon's entropy per output bit can quickly be estimated. Thanks to this model, sizing TRNGs in ...

IEEE2018

Characterization of a 9-Decade Femtoampere ASIC Front-End for Radiation Monitoring

Maher Kayal, Evgenia Voulgari, François Krummenacher, Daniel Perrin

An ultra-low current sensing digitizer circuit was designed for radiation monitoring for personnel and environmental safety at CERN. The Ultralow Picoammeter 2 (Utopia 2) ASIC includes some key functionalities like on-chip active leakage current compensati ...

2018