Showing papers in "Microelectronics Journal in 2019"

TL;DR: An analysis of the evolution of the classical and fractional modeling based on equivalent circuits, a survey of hybrid energy systems and its control, as well as, a study of the methods proposed in the literature to estimate the state of charge are presented.

TL;DR: A detailed survey of single and multi-component FOE implementations implies that a single component FOE is more suited for integration with the conventional circuitry but a market fit device is still a topic of research.

TL;DR: The general formula for the synchronization of different Izhikevich neurons is proposed and the fractional-order regular spiking neuron of Izhkevich model is implemented on Xilinx (XC5VLX30T) Virtex 5 FPGA kit using only combinational logic.

TL;DR: A low band gap material and hetero-dielectric based silicon germanium source nano Wire TFET is created and compared with conventional silicon nano wire TFET (Si-NW-TFET) to attract the attention of semiconductor industry to find opportunity beyond CMOS technology.

TL;DR: Five meta-heuristic optimization algorithms are tested in this problem based on a weighted sum objective function and the Cuckoo search and ant-lion optimizers are capable of identifying the required filter parameters with the least phase and magnitude relative error and with a higher convergence rate.

TL;DR: The design and FPGA implementation of sound encryption system based on a fractional-order chaotic system that is employed as a chaotic generator in a speech encryption algorithm and security analysis techniques are presented to show the robustness of the proposed algorithm.

TL;DR: Two (α + β)-order transfer functions realizing fractional-order band-pass filter responses are presented and analysed and two new approaches are proposed for approximating these responses using discrete-time averaging.

TL;DR: A novel single ended PPN based 10T static random access memory (SRAM) with high read stability and better FOM is presented and it is observed that the proposed cell has better the FOM as compared to all other considered cells.

TL;DR: An improved prototype of planar sensor based on a microwave ring resonator operating at 1 GHz for the fundamental mode is presented to obtain a better sensitivity for measuring high complex permittivity values of materials such as biological tissues, and to obtain higher precision in parameters determination.

TL;DR: Two grounded immittance function simulators (IFSs) employing only grounded passive elements and one differential difference current conveyor are developed in this study and two floating IFS are obtained from the grounded ones.

TL;DR: This research work presents a practical application of a real-time microwave sensing system for the evaluation of tissues moisture and addresses two major challenges; first, the use of a highly sensitive microwave sensor to determine tissue moisture and second, to share the measurement through an IoT-based system over the Bluetooth low-energy radio using open standards and protocols.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates that this technique stabilizes the switching point voltage of the CMOS inverter, reducing its statistical variation, besides allowing gain enhancement and its adjustment, which is desirable for the Gm-C design.

TL;DR: Reduced complexity CMOS fractional-order differentiator and integrator building blocks are introduced in this work, based on 2nd-order integer-order transfer function approximations, and improved bandwidth of approximation accuracy is achieved.

TL;DR: A device incorporating ferro electric tunnel junction is proposed which analyzes the concept of tunneling across a silicon doped hafnium oxide ferroelectric as well as various RF parameter performance such as gate capacitance, transconductance, intrinsic delay, intrinsic gain, cut off frequency, and transconductor frequency product are studied.

TL;DR: A versatile type of electronically controllable bilinear transfer segments are introduced as a part of novel two-path system of the fractional-order proportional-integral or derivative (FOPI/D) controller, based on modified current differencing unit (MCDU) active element.

TL;DR: The method developed in the present study is general and straightforward in comparison with those available in the literature as it includes only required sequential steps to calculate the mutual inductance between the independent segments of the coils.

TL;DR: This work proposes a novel approach combining a single led and a Buried Quad Junction photodetector, i.e. a multispectral sensor for pulse oximetry, to reduce the modifying effects introduced by the aforementioned sources of inaccuracy by using a singleLed.

TL;DR: This review article critically and systematically analyzes the fabrication challenges, reliability issues and their use in cryogenic fields and carefully examines the utility of MHEMTs in deep space, biomedical, scientific, military, communication areas and so forth.

TL;DR: The self-healing concept is explained and the parameters which can be used to evaluate a self-Healing method are presented, which are redundancy rate, the maximum ratio of repair, self- healing time consumption, reliability, and area overhead.

TL;DR: This paper explores the integration of MAGIC NOR gates within large-scale memory crossbar arrays by evaluating both analytically and numerically different non-ideality parameters that influence the logic gate performance.

TL;DR: A differential amplifier with Double-Gate (DG) MOSFET which can be used in electronic devices at Micro- and Nano-technology level is designed and tested for various parameters such as differential mode gain, commonmode gain, Common Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR), and frequency response.

TL;DR: The generalization of the three-port mutator increases the flexibility to design the floating FOMI and FOMC mutators and circuit simulations and experimental results are introduced to validate the theoretical findings.

TL;DR: A new grounded inductor simulator (GIS) with the property of improved low frequency performance is proposed in this paper and many SPICE simulations and an experiment for the very high-Q BPF are achieved.

TL;DR: A new versatile voltage mode first order filter using low-voltage low-power bulk-driven OTAs and three phases sinusoidal oscillator based on proposed first order high-pass filter is presented.

TL;DR: The high output voltage coefficient and the significant deliverable power of the combination Terfenol-D/Metglas/PZT-5H makes it as an ideal energy transducer candidate for wireless powering of embedded device in biomedical applications.

TL;DR: The proposed model is found to be time efficient than the HSPICE simulations, and the crosstalk induced performance analysis of ternary logic coupled on-chip interconnects using an efficient mathematical model, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.

TL;DR: A chaos-based true random number generator that can operate at an ultra-low voltage (ULV) and be integrated into energy-constrained IoT devices for secure communications is presented.

TL;DR: The proposed neuron which is simulated in a 0.18 μm CMOS technology, shows a good approximation with maximum error from the ideal hyperbolic tangent function and the ideal sigmoid function by 29.33% and 7.4%, respectively.

TL;DR: This paper has presented an ultra-low power, lightweight, configurable RO PUF based on the 4T XOR architecture, which has a large number of challenge-response-pair (CRP) compared to the other architectures, which makes it suitable for chip identification as well as cryptographic key generation.

TL;DR: The computational results confirm the threshold voltages values as well as the suitable figure of merits of using GNRFETs in multiple-valued logic circuit design and implement the arithmetic circuit based on armchair graphene nanoribbon field effect transistors.