The capabilities of Horizontal Current Bipolar Transistor (HCBT) technology for radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC) design is analyzed. The HBCT, with its novel technological approach and integration with existing CMOS technologies, is entering the testing phase on IC level. The demanding RF integrated circuit requirements and design issues in the frequency range 0.9 – 5 GHz are presen...

We present a topological framework that provides a simple yet powerful electronic circuit architecture for constructing and using multilayer crossbar arrays, allowing a significantly increased integration density of memristive crosspoint devices beyond the scaling limits of lateral feature sizes. The truly remarkable feature of such circuits, which is an extension of the CMOL (Cmos + MOLecular-...

An ideal CMOS analog switch would exhibit such characteristics as zero resistance when turned on, infinite resistance when turned off, zero power consumption, and zero switching time. Unfortunately, such a device is usually found as an example in a college textbook. The real world offers trade-offs and imperfections which prevent the realization of the ideal. The integrated circuit designer wor...

This paper presents a new circuit arrangement for a current-mode Wheatstone bridge that is suitable for low-voltage integrated circuits implementation. Compared to the other proposed circuits, this circuit features severe reduction of the elements number, low supply voltage (1V) and low power consumption (<350uW). In addition, the circuit has favorable nonlinearity error (<0.35%), operate with ...

The purpose of this work was to demonstrate the feasibility of building recurrent artificial neural networks with hybrid complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)/memristor circuits. To do so, we modeled a Hopfield network implementing an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with up to 8 bits of precision. Major shortcomings affecting the ADC's precision, such as the non-ideal behavior of CMO...

HIS paper presents measurement results of 8-channel integrated circuit dedicated to recording and detection of a broad range of biomedical signals. The aim of our work is to develop an implementable multichannel system comprising of hundreds of recording electrodes combined with integrated electronics. The main requirements of such systems are: low power consumption (<10 μW), area occupation (<...

Interconnect has become a primary bottleneck in the integrated circuit design process. As CMOS technology is scaled, the design requirements of delay, power, bandwidth, and noise due to the on-chip interconnects have become increasingly stringent. New design challenges are continuously emerging, such as delay uncertainty induced by process and environmental variations. It has become increasingl...

This thesis report presents system specification, such as frequency and output power level, and selection topology of an oscillator circuit suitable for a CMOS Integrated Doppler radar application, in order to facilitate short range target detection within 5-15 m range, using a 0.35 μm CMOS process. With this selected CMOS process, the frequency band at 2.45 GHz or 5 GHz, with a maximum output ...