This paper presents an analog integrated circuit synthesis system based on an evolutionary
approach. The system contains several novel features. One of these is the high-performance …

A handheld neutron-detection sensor application is described in this paper. The sensor
system utilizes a new class of boron carbide diode that interacts with incoming neutrons. To …

This paper presents a CMOS image sensor with focal-plane compression. The design has a
column-level architecture and it is based on predictive coding techniques for image …

A synthesis system based on a circuit simulator and a silicon assembler for analog neural
networks to be implemented in MOS technology is presented. The system approximates on-…

A stand-alone design automation tool tailored for radio frequency (RF) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
(CMOS) low-noise amplifier (LNA) designs is presented. Rather than …

This paper presents a novel vision chip architecture based on pixel-neighborhood-level
parallel processing. In the architecture, an 8-b RISC processing core is embedded in an 8×8 …

An alternative image decomposition method that exploits prediction via nearby pixels has
been integrated on the CMOS image sensor focal plane. The proposed focal plane …

The explosive growth and development of the integrated circuit market over the last few years
have been mostly limited to the digital VLSI domain. The difficulty of automating the design …

A low-power analog front-end amplifier for SiPM based radiation detectors is presented. In
particular, an event-driven low-noise charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) is developed in …

… Balkir, MW Hoffman, and M. Bauer are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of … Sina Balkir received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Bogaziçi University, …