Titre:
ANALOG AND MIXED SIGNAL DESIGN FOR ELECTROSTATIC MEMS CONDITIONING
Conférencier:
Jordi Madrenas ,
Technical University of Catalunya
Lieu:
Concordia University, SGW Campus, EV 009.221 ,
Date et heure:
lundi le 13 juillet 2009 de
17:30 à 19:00
Résumé: The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the electrostatic MEMS conditioning issues and VLSI circuits suitable, but not limited, to this purpose. After reviewing the requirements of electrostatic MEMS sensors and actuators, the control architecture and several analog VLSI circuits that have been implemented are described and analyzed. In particular, a translinear CMOS element and programmable array, a compact minimum-maximum current detector and an asynchronous-logic-based control scheme for dynamic power converter. Finally, development and preliminary experimental results on MEMS designed in standard CMOS technology are presented.
Note biographique: Jordi Madrenas received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, UPC. Between 2000 and 2003 he was Vice-Dean of Studies of the Telecommunication Engineering School of Barcelona, UPC. He has participated in several European and Spanish national research projects. Currently he coordinates a national research project on microsensor conditioning and bioinspired signal processing and he has co-authored more than 90 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings and 5 book chapters. His research interests include analog, mixed-signal and digital VLSI and FPGA design, e-beam testing, bioinspired neural and neuromorphic systems implementation, focal-plane image segmentation, field-programmable mixed-signal arrays and MEMS conditioning.