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Optimizing sensor readout schemes and integrated circuit designs for both open-loop and closed-loop implementations requires precise modeling and simulation strategies. This study introduces a novel two-port impedance model to estimate the…
Up-to-date network telemetry is the key enabler for resource optimization by a variety of means including capacity scaling, fault recovery, network reconfiguration. Reliable optical performance monitoring in general and specifically the…
1 ps timing resolution is the entry point to signature based searches relying on secondary/tertiary vertices and particle identification. We describe a preliminary design for PSEC5, an 8-channel 40 GS/s waveform-sampling ASIC in the TSMC 65…
This work describes the hardware implementation of a connected component labelling (CCL) module in reprogammable logic. The main novelty of the design is the "full", i.e. without any simplifications, support of a 4 pixel per clock format (4…
In this work the extraction of pulse time and amplitude from short pulse transients is analysed as they are recorded by a transient recorder ASIC called ATR16. Algorithms of different complexity are tested with simulated preamplifier data…
Nano-electronic integrated circuit technology is exclusively based on MOSFET transistor due to its scalability down to the nanometer range. On the other hand, Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), which provides unmatched analog…
In most digital-to-time converter (DTC) based applications, apart from maintaining low integral non-linearity (INL), it is also required of the system to achieve a wide frequency translation range. To achieve this performance, we present a…
We developed a compact and easy-to-use phase meter based on a zero-crossing counting algorithm for digitized signals. Owing to the algorithm, the phase meter has low-noise and wide dynamic range. Low-noise differential phase measurements…
Adiabatic waveguide taper and on-chip wavelength demultiplexer are the key components of photonic integrated circuits. However, these two kinds of devices which designed by traditional semi-analytic methods or brute-force search methods…
Channel sounding is a vital step in understanding wireless channels for the design and deployment of wireless communication systems. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a coherent distributed massive MIMO channel…
In this article it is presented an FPGA based $M$ulti-$V$oltage $T$hreshold (MVT) system which allows of sampling fast signals ($1-2$ ns rising and falling edge) in both voltage and time domain. It is possible to achieve a precision of time…
To meet the evolving data rate requirements of emerging wireless communication technologies, many parallel architectures have been proposed to implement high throughput turbo decoders. However, concurrent memory reading/writing in parallel…
We demonstrate a hybrid analog+digital electronic lock to stabilize a dynamically tunable rf offset between two lasers. Our method features an 80 MHz capture range, +/- 7 GHz tuning range, frequency agility of 1 MHz/microsecond, and low…
We describe a modular multi-channel data acquisition system based on the 5-15 Gigasample-per-second waveform-recording PSEC4 chip. The system architecture incorporates two levels of hardware with FPGA-embedded system control and in-line…
The presented paper introduces a design for a phase-locked loop (PLL) that is utilized in frequency synthesis and modulation-demodulation within communication systems and in VLSI applications. The CMOS PLL is designed using 180 nm…
By configuring a radio-frequency single-electron transistor as a mixer, we demonstrate a unique implementation of this device, that achieves good charge sensitivity with large bandwidth about a tunable center frequency. In our…
Superconducting quantum computer is manufactured based on semiconductor process which makes qubits integration possible. At the same time, this kind of qubit exhibits high performance fidelity, de-coherence time, scalability and requires a…
We propose an idea of an electronic multi-channel arbitrary digital sequence generator with temporal granularity equal to a single clock cycle. We implement the generator with 32 channels using a low-cost ARM microcontroller and demonstrate…
We present the design and implementation of a measurement system that enables parallel drive and detection of small currents and voltages at numerous electrical contacts to a multi-terminal electrical device. This system, which we term a…
We present a complete top-down design of a low-power multi-channel clock recovery circuit based on gated current-controlled oscillators. The flow includes several tools and methods used to specify block constraints, to design and verify the…