The TopmetalSe is a pixelated charge sensor in the Skywater 130nm process, designed for the Selena Neutrino experiment as an imager for rare nuclear processes in amorphous Selenium.
The TopmetalSe-DPS is a prototype/upgrade of the TopmetalSe that was previously submitted for tapeout. We include a "digital pixel sensor," where we digitize the...
Nanopore-based DNA sequencing is a unique, scalable technology, utilized to identify nucleotides (i.e., A, C, G, T) according to the pico-ampere-sized current fluctuations induced by the passage of a DNA strand through a like-sized molecular sensor (i.e. a “nanopore”). This approach, a so-called “3rd Generation” sequencing technology, entered...
ReRAM 16x16 array characterisation, including forming, incremental set and reset, and parallel analog read for vector-matrix multiplication. All characterisation is fully digitally controlled over the logic analyser.
The TopmetalSe is a pixelated charge sensor in the Skywater 130nm process, designed for the Selena Neutrino experiment as an imager for rare nuclear processes in amorphous Selenium.
The TopmetalSe is a pixelated charge sensor in the Skywater 130nm process, designed for the Selena Neutrino experiment as an imager for rare nuclear processes in amorphous Selenium.
The goal of this project is to design and fabricate a low power low cost electrochemical sensing system to monitor the quality of water. A three-electrode electrochemical sensor will perform amperometry and cyclic voltammetry and send the captured voltage signal into the analog front end module. The analog signal is amplified, digitized, and...
Nanopore-based DNA sequencing is a unique, scalable technology, utilized to identify nucleotides (i.e., A, C, G, T) according to the pico-ampere-sized current fluctuations induced by the passage of a DNA strand through a nanopore. The main components of this technology fit in the palm of one’s hand and it has demonstrated the ability to process...
A CMOS 915 MHz power oscillator test chip consists of a driving cross coupled LC oscillator followed by a differential power amplifier is designed to compare the performance of three classes of power amplifiers (C, E and F). The key performance metrics are efficiency and output power level. The target application is far field wireless charging...
This project aims to design and implement a DC-DC buck converter based on the Three-level Flying Capacitor Converter (3L-FCC) architecture for space applications, namely CubeSat systems, using the Skywater 130nm CMOS technology. In our proposal, the power circuits are fully integrated on-chip, including the power MOSFETs (PM), the flying...
We design a 2-D systolic array architecture as shown in teh figure. Each node is a Processing ELement (PE) which takes in 3 inputs and produces an output. Each PE shifts the data of horizontally and vertically to the neighboring PEs every clock cycle. Systolic arrays access the memory only once, and all the PEs transfer the data to the nearby...
This project implements a low-noise high bandwidth (~1GHz) transimpedance amplifier (TIA). The TIA is complemented by a reference current generator and a 50 Ohm output driver
This project is implementation of approximate multiplier published in ACM TODAES journal 2021, titled "Energy Efficient Error Resilient Multiplier Using Low-power Compressors".
Upconverter/Downconverter with integrated with image rejection, RF gain stage, and LO chain that includes frequency multiplier, tunable BP filter, I/Q phase control, and VGA.
An auditory perception acoustic front end with multi-channel capability and standard digital interfaces (I2S, PDM and SPI). This project was conceived and developed by participants of the the 2021 NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop (June 28 - July 19, 2021).