As more companies encourage users to participate in the design of personalized products through online configuration tools, a new kind of user-centered business model emerges. One of the outcomes of this transformation, ...

With the continuous scaling down of transistor feature sizes, the semiconductor industry faces new challenges. One of these challenges is the incessant increase of power consumption in integrated circuits. This problem has ...

Autonomous micro-sensor nodes rely on low-power circuits to enable energy harvesting as a means of sustaining long-term, maintenance free operation. This work pursues the design of an ultra low-power analog-to-digital ...

The design of a micropower energy-efficient neural recording amplifier is presented. The amplifier appears to be the lowest power and most energy-efficient neural recording amplifier reported to date. I describe low-noise ...

If we are to realize the everyday benefits promised by pervasive computing and context-aware applications, we must first develop the infrastructure to provide contextual location and orientation information through pervasive ...

Polymer Multi-Layer (PML) capacitors have demonstrated excellent performance for numerous power electronics applications, particularly where high temperature stability is required. These capacitors are sensitive to high ...

In this thesis, we explore full memory safety and the various intricacies involved. We analyze existing memory safety techniques in both hardware and software and their many different goals. This task involves determining ...