We have investigated a chaotic circuit utilizing CMOS ring oscillators[1]. The circuit consists of two CMOS ring oscillators and two diodes. A CMOS ring oscillator is used for CMOS process performance test. This oscillator consists of a series of inverter circuits. It has a very simple structure. Therefore, we consider that the proposed circuit is realized very easily. In the past studies, we h...

This paper presents JPL progress in building evolutionoriented reconfigurable devices. It surveys the FPTA family, and presents details of the latest chip, FPTA2, an array of 64 reconfigurable cells that can implement mixed-signal functions, include programmable capacitors and resistors and integrate photodetectors as part of a built-in vision sensor. The chip was fabricated in 0.18 micron CMOS...

A new CMOS-based image sensor that is intrinsically compatible with onchip CMOS circuitry is reported. The new CMOS active pixel image sensor achieves low noise, high sensitivity, X-Y addressability, and has simple timing requirements. The image sensor was fabricated using a 2 pm p-well CMOS process, and consists of a 128 x 128 array of 40 pm x 40 pm pixels. The CMOS image sensor technology ena...

The integrated circuit revolution has impacted virtually all fields of engineering. The main driving force behind this revolution is Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) transistor technology. As CMOS integrated circuit “chips” have come to dominate analog and digital electronics, introductory electronics courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering programs have evolved to place gr...

Voltage boosting from CMOS photovoltaic device (PV) is achieved by implementing multiple PV units on single CMOS chip and are series connected by an external integrated passive device. Localized substrate removal process is developed to electrically isolate the PV units. Four-cell cascaded CMOS PV module provides an open-circuit voltage of 2.05 V while maintaining its superior PV performance.

A CMOS four-quadrant analog multiplier circuit for neural networks integrated circuit implementation is presented. By applying differential balanced current mode signals (both for the input, output and weight signals) the multiplication function is easily implemented through two translinear loops. The multiplier exhibits low power consumption (the dc current is 250 nA under a differential power...

This paper presents a fully-integrated NEMS resonator together with a compact built-in CMOS interfacing circuitry. The proposed low-power CCII circuit allows measuring the mechanical frequency response of the nanocantilever structure in the MHz range. Detailed experimental results at different DC biasing conditions and pressure levels are presented for a real mixed electro-mechanical system int...

We propose an analog CMOS circuit for developing a biologically-inspired locomotion controller for a quadruped walking robot. The proposed circuit is based on the biological neural network, called the central pattern generator (CPG), that can generate rhythmic movements for locomotion of animals, such as walking, running, swimming, and flying. We constructed a CPG model from the WilsonCowan neu...

In this paper, design and analysis of a programmable CMOS-based function generator circuit is presented. The proposed circuit implements trapezoidal and triangular functions with all parameters (slope, position, width and height) independently and continuously adjustable. The proposed circuit achieves higher speed compared to the available previous work by not using winner takes all or looser t...