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This book investigates several non-resonant inductive harvester architectures in order to find the magnet coil arrangement that generates the largest power output. The book is useful as a step-by-step guide for readers unfamiliar with this form of energy harvesting, but who want to build their own system models to calculate the magnet motion and, from that, the power generation available for body-worn sensor systems. The detailed description of system model development will greatly facilitate experimental work with the aim of fabricating the design with the highest predicted power output. Based on the simulated optimal geometry, fabricated devices achieve an average power output of up to 43 mW during walking, an amount of power that can supply modern low-power, body-worn systems. Experiments were also carried out in industrial applications with power outputs up to 15 mW. In sum, researchers and engineers will find a step-by-step introduction to inductive harvesting and its modeling aspects for achieving optimal harvester designs in an efficient manner.  

System-on-a-chip (SoC) designs result in a wide range of high-complexity, high-value semiconductor products. As the technology scales towards smaller feature sizes and chips grow larger, a speed limitation arises due to an in­ creased RC delay associated with interconnection wires. Innovative circuit techniques are required to achieve the speed needed for high-performance signal processing. Current sensing is considered as a promising circuit class since it is inherently faster than conventional voltage sense amplifiers. How­ ever, especially in SRAM, current sensing has rarely been used so far. Practi­ cal implementations are challenging because they require sophisticated analog circuit techniques in a digital environment. The objective of this book is to provide a systematic and comprehen­ sive insight into current sensing techniques. Both theoretical and practical aspects are covered. Design guidelines are derived by systematic analysis of different circuit principles. Innovative concepts like compensation of the bit­ line multiplexer and auto-power-down will be explained based on theory and experimental results. The material will be interesting for design engineers in industry as well as researchers who want to learn about and apply current sensing techniques. The focus is on embedded SRAM but the material presented can be adapted to single-chip SRAM and to any other current-providing memory type as well. This includes emerging memory technologies like magnetic RAM (MRAM) and Ovonic Unified Memory (OUM). Moreover, it is also applicable to array­ like structures such as CMOS camera chips and to circuits for signal trans­ mission along highly capacitive busses.

This is the first book to comprehensively record the authors' authoritative knowledge and practical experience of IC manufacturing, including the tremendous developments of recent years. With its strong application orientation, this is a must-have book for professionals in semiconductor industries.

This book offers a comprehensive reference guide for graduate students and professionals in both academia and industry, covering the fundamentals, architecture, processing details, and applications of 3D microelectronic packaging.

This book offers a comprehensive reference guide for graduate students and professionals in both academia and industry, covering the fundamentals, architecture, processing details, and applications of 3D microelectronic packaging.

This book investigates several non-resonant inductive harvester architectures in order to find the magnet coil arrangement that generates the largest power output.

The book intends to bring under one roof research work of leading groups from across the globe working on advanced applications of emerging memory technology nanodevices.

This book describes the optimized implementations of several arithmetic datapath, controlpath and pseudorandom sequence generator circuits for realization of high performance arithmetic circuits targeted towards a specific family of the high-end Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

This book is dedicated to field emission electronics, a promising field at the interface between "classic" vacuum electronics and nanotechnology. It particularly focuses on research into and production of field cathodes and electron guns using recently developed nanomaterials and carbon nanotubes.

This book provides the analytical theory of complex systems composed of a large number of high-Q dielectric resonators. The scattering process of short pulses in dielectric filter structures, dielectric antennas and lattices of dielectric resonators is discussed.

This book presents an evaluation methodology to design future FPGA fabrics incorporating hard embedded blocks (HEBs) to accelerate applications. The book also explains how the respective HEBs are designed and how hardware implementation of the application is done using these HEBs.

This book describes the newest implementations ofintegrated photodiodes fabricated in nanometer standard CMOS technologies. This book showsthe newest results for the performance of integrated optical receivers, laserdrivers, modulator drivers and optical sensors in nanometer standard CMOStechnologies.

CMOS Circuits for Electromagnetic Vibration Transducers

This book covers the complete spectrum of the fundamentals of clocked, regenerative comparators, their state-of-the-art, advanced CMOS technologies, innovative comparators inclusive circuit aspects, their characterization and properties.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to integrated optical waveguides for information technology and data communications.

This book presents recent results in the development of analog filters in nanometer CMOS. It describes methods for successfully dealing with nanometer devices and includes numerous detailed circuit diagrams and plots of measured results.

This book offers a detailed description and lab analysis of three different A/D converter solutions used in high volume low-power and low-voltage CMOS products, with a focus on robustness for low-power and small chip area design.

This book surveys modeling and implementation of high performance current-steering D/A-converters for digital transceivers in nanometer CMOS technology. Covers performance limitations and offers four current-steering DAC designs in standard 130 nm CMOS.

This book explores the use of high mobility semiconductors such as germanium and III-V materials, the need to redesign transistors to work with such materials and the appropriateness of Quantum Well-based transistors for this new stage of transistor evolution.