Title :
A programmable diffuser circuit based on floating-gate devices
Author :
Smith, Paul D. ; Hasler, Paul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a programmable diffuser using floating-gate circuits. We present the dynamics of classical diffuser circuits and show the differences between the classical and the programmable case. Programmable diffusers offer man), advantages including removing individual element mismatch and also giving the user the ability to reconfigure the overall system behavior Programmable diffusers can be used for spreading, just as in a resistive network, and they can also be used to create applications based on wave propagation. Experimental data is presented from circuits fabricated on a 0.5 μm n-well CMOS process available through MOSIS.
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; analogue processing circuits; current-mode circuits; hidden Markov models; programmable circuits; 0.5 micron; HMM classifiers; MOSIS; element mismatch; floating-gate circuits; hidden Markov model decoders; n-well CMOS process; programmable diffuser; spreading; wave propagation; Brain modeling; Circuits; Computer networks; Engineering profession; Filtering; Instruments; MOSFETs; Resistors; Signal to noise ratio; Voltage control;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2002. MWSCAS-2002. The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7523-8
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.2002.1187214