CISE Research Instrumentation

该奖项是为购买测试VLSI模拟和数字集成电路的设备和附件而颁发的。研究项目包括设计新颖的再生比较器、片上电压发生器、用于开关电容滤波器的低电压、低功耗运算放大器，以及用于生物医学应用的低功耗混合信号集成电路。本建议所要求的设备和附件将由主要研究人员及其学生用来测试VLSI模拟和数字集成电路，用于从信号和图像处理到生物医学、空间和移动无线电的各种应用。他们的具体研究课题分为数字信号处理集成电路、模拟和混合信号集成电路以及模拟集成电路综合。

This award is for the purchase of equipment and accessories for testing VLSI analog and digital integrated circuits. The research projects include design of novel, regenerative comparators, on-chip voltage generators, low- voltage, low-power OP amp for switch capacitor filters, and low power mixed-signal integrated circuits for biomedical applications. The equipment and accessories requested in this proposal will be used by the principal investigators and their students to test VLSI analog and digital integrated circuits for a variety of applications ranging from signal and image processing, to biomedical, space and mobile radio. Their specific research topics are divided into the areas of digital signal processing integrated circuits, analog and mixed signal integrated circuits, and analog integrated circuit synthesis.