Development of an ASIC with an integrated timing circuit architecture inspired by the well-established 555 timer. The ASIC will be designed to function both as a Clock Generator and a Pulse-Width Modulator (PWM), addressing the need for reliable timing solutions in integrated circuits. Utilizing an open-source Process Design Kit (PDK), the...
The IC is intended to be an ASIC designed to determine banana plants health and the presence of banana weevils within the banana corm in a non-invasive way. The evaluation of the plant’s health will be determined by a sap flow sensor, whereas the presence of weevils will be determined by an ultrasonic microphone discriminating the 1.4kHz to...
further implementation of a sub-1V current-mode bandgap reference (BGR), focus will be on reducing the circuit area and supply voltage, enhancing integration in compact and low-power applications. By employing advanced layout techniques and optimized transistor sizing, the design will minimize silicon footprint while maintaining performance....
The main function of LDO is to maintain constant output voltage which is equal to reference voltage VREF to sub-circuits in a system on Chip. There are analog LDOs that are suitable for noise sensitive load circuits. The disadvantage with Analog LDO is that is does provide sufficient loop gain at low supply voltages. The reason for...
The main function of LDO is to maintain constant output voltage which is equal to reference voltage VREF to sub-circuits in a system on Chip. There are analog LDOs that are suitable for noise sensitive load circuits. The disadvantage with Analog LDO is that is does provide sufficient loop gain at low supply voltages. The reason for...
The main function of LDO is to maintain constant output voltage which is equal to reference
voltage VREF to sub-circuits in a system on Chip. There are analog LDOs that are suitable for
noise sensitive load circuits. The disadvantage with Analog LDO is that is does provide
sufficient loop gain at low supply voltages. The reason for...
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The COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer (CORDIC) is a multiplier-less and hardware friendly circuit processor that uses shift-add operations to compute mathematical operations such as trigonometric functions, division, square root, and others. CORDIC is of high interest in many application domains such as...
We propose to design a Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) Transmitter consisting of a Class-B CMOS Digitally Controlled Oscillator (DCO) and a Class-D Power Amplifier (PA) with on-chip matching designed to deliver 0 dBm to a 50 Ω load at maximum drain efficiency. In order to simplify the design, the first iteration will not include a PLL, only an...
The proposed circuit is a Digitally Programmable Gain Amplifier (DPGA) designed to amplify voltage signals with programmable gain options ranging from 1 V/V to 256 V/V. The main core is an OTA (Operational Transconductance Amplifier) Miller with an output buffer configured as an inverter amplifier. The key feature of the circuit is its...
Power-optimized Exponential Golomb Decoder for H.264 Video DecodingAs a team committed to enhancing video playback performance through this project, our efforts stem from a deep understanding of the challenges faced by camera and object detection algorithms. By delivering an open-source, high-performance solution, we aspire to empower...
Accurate, high speed, real-time reading and acquisition of signals from an array of sensors, such as temperature ones, often require advanced signal amplification and noise filtering. Arrays of sensors are used widely in practice, especially in operations and handling that require receiving signals from many different points. In this...
CEFET/RJ's students have recently focused on the use of open-source tools, such as Ngspice, Magic, and Netgen, in order to complete the analog design flow. The main idea of this student project, supported by the UNIC-CASS program, is to design three analog IP blocks of a Power Management Unit (PMU) on SKY130 process: a low-voltage controlled...
4-point radix-4 butterfly operation for complex number processing, often used in digital signal processing (DSP) and fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms.
We propose to design a thermal diode based voltage that is Proportional to Absolute Temperature (PTAT) in order to achieve an output that can be amplified and interpreted to achieve the functionality of a temperature sensor. The PTAT is composed of an OTA in negative feedback configuration that will be comparing one PNP based grounded BJT with...
This repository includes the files related to the proposal entitled ‘Ring Oscillators Frequency degradation for Reliability characterization with Bias temperature instability (BTI) and hot carrier (HC) effects’ for UNICASS 2024.
This is a capstone course project led by Professor Jacques C. Rudell, along with the PhD candidate Ahmed R. Aboulsaad.
The tape-out chip will include 4 projects designed by undergraduate students and graduate students:
1- Quantum Controller Receiver Project.
2- Audio Amplifier Project.
3- Bi-directional Wireline Chip Interface...