Abstract: This work presents a design of a driver in 65 nm TSMC technology for a custom MZM designed to withstand non-ionizing energy losses (NIEL) of up few 1016 n/cm2 and up to 500 Mrad total ionisation doses (TID). The design of the driver is...
Abstract: This paper presents the integrated circuit design, targeting a CMOS 65 nm 1.2 V technology, of a high-speed driver that provides the differential input signals to a Mach Zender Modulator (MZM), and allows tuning of the MZM operating point...
Abstract: All the High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments in modern accelerators can be seen as real-time imaging devices whose main target is the reconstruction of the trajectories of the particles generated directly in the beam interactions - e.g....
Abstract: Radiations present in harsh environments can significantly affects the performance of the silicon devices. Therefore, these effects should be taken into account in the system design phase. In this paper is shown the design of two high-speed...
Abstract: This work proposes a universal and inductorless DC/DC converter that can be used for a wide input range, from few V to 60 V, to regulate output voltages from 5 V down to 1 V in Sensor and Actuator Network nodes. The proposed converter has been...
Abstract—The paper presents the transistor-level design, using Keysight ADS environment, of a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), the key block of wireless transceivers in automotive V2X (vehicle to everything) applications. A system-level exploration of the...
Abstract: This paper uses an analytical approach to provide a performance analysis of a millimeter-wave short-range link for System in Package (SiP) applications. Thanks to an analytical modeling of the real Si-integrated antenna, an easy-to-use...
A large amount of parallel silicon nanowires, placed perpendicularly to a silicon substrate (silicon nanowire forests), has been contacted and assembled in order to fabricate legs of a thermoelectric generator. This paper reports the measurement of the...
Silicon nanowires, whose thermal conductivity is strongly reduced with respect to that of the bulk silicon, are very promising for high-efficient thermoelectric conversion. This work focuses on the development of a technique for the fabrication of...
Nanostructured silicon is a promising material for thermoelectric conversion because the thermal conductivity in silicon nanostructures can be strongly reduced with respect to that of bulk materials. We present thermal conductivity measurements,...
Silicon is a material with very good thermoelectric properties, with regard to Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity. Low thermal conductivities, and hence high thermal to electrical conversion efficiencies, can be achieved in nanostructures,...
Conventional techniques for thermal conductivity measurements can lead to unreliable results when applied to nanostructures because heaters and temperature sensors needed for the measurement cannot have a negligible size and therefore perturb the...
We discuss processes for the fabrication of devices for thermoelectric generation, based on silicon nanostructures. The main issue that we address is the design and development of fabrication processes for devices exploiting a large number of...
This work presents a fully digital implementation of an audio front-end for portable applications developed in a low-power perspective. Such platform acquires audio samples through a four digital Pulse Digital Modulation (PDM) microphones array and...
Voice Activity Detectors (VADs) are used to enhance performances and to reduce the activation rate of speech recognition and key-word spotting applications. The last aspect is crucial for portable applications because it allows to save energy,...
Nowadays Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) have become popular thanks to their easiness of use that makes them accessible to the elderly and people with disability. Nevertheless, their use in embedded systems for the realization of portable devices is...
Recursive Systematic Convolutional (RSC) codes are the building blocks of the modern communication systems. In this paper we propose a new analytical model to manipulate the modulo-2 algebraic operations and a finite state machine model describing the...
Several humanoid robots will require to navigate in unsafe and unstructured environments, such as those after a disaster, for human assistance and support. To achieve this, humanoids require to construct in real-time, accurate maps of the environment...
The widespread of ransomware experienced in the last years has been caused also by the ability of attackers to introduce changes and mutations that make the malware hard to identify from antimalware software. In this paper we propose a two-phase method...
The distributiveness and heterogeneity of today’s systems of systems, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), on-line banking systems, and contemporary emergency information systems, require the integration of access and usage control mechanisms, for...