Solid-state based lighting offers a number of advantages such as long life, high efficiency
and compactness compared to a conventional halogen tube based lighting.
Due to these advantages they are being increasingly us ...
Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converters (SAR ADCs) have been widely used for medium-speed, medium-resolution applications due to their excellent power efficiency and digital compatibility. Recently ...
Delta-Sigma (ΔΣ) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are traditionally used in high quality audio systems, instrumentation and measurement (I&M) and biomedical devices. With the continued downscaling of CMOS technology, ...
Dual referencing has been garnering a lot of attention in the power integrity community, specifically in the voltage mode driver application because it shows a lower overall power delivery noise (PDN) compared to other s ...
As more features are being integrated into mobile platforms, the demand for
long battery life during standby mode has been increasing. Light load efficiency
becomes one of essential features in today's DC-DC converter. ...
Enabled by continued device scaling in CMOS technology, more and more functions that were previously realized in separate chips are getting integrated on a single chip nowadays. Integration on silicon has opened the door ...
Low power, high speed serial transceivers are employed in a wide range of applications ranging from chip-to-chip, backplane, and optical interconnects. Apart
from being capable of handling a wide range of data rates, th ...
Hand-held devices are among the most successful consumer electronics in modern society. Behind these successful devices, lies a key analog design technique that involves high-performance analog-to-digital conversion comb ...
As the number of autonomous data collection applications keep increasing, the demand for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has seen explosive growth. In this dissertation, an ultra-low-energy WSN transmitter is developed t ...
Delta-Sigma (ΔΣ) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are widely used in wireless transceivers. Recently, continuous-time (CT) ΔΣ ADCs gain growing interest in wireless applications for their lower power consumption and w ...