Title :
A large-scale Reconfigurable Smart Sensory Chip
Author :
Peng, Sheng-Yu ; Gurun, Gokce ; Twigg, Christopher M. ; Qureshi, Muhammad S. ; Basu, Arindam ; Brink, Stephen ; Hasler, Paul E. ; Degertekin, F.L.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
The Reconfigurable Smart Sensory Chip (RSSC) is a powerful tool for fast prototyping sensory microsystems. Innovative design ideas can be quickly realized and tested in hardware without doing time-consuming and expensive silicon fabrication. The RSSC is a large-scale floating-gate based IC containing 8 universal sensor interface blocks, each of which can be configured for voltage sensing, capacitive sensing, or current sensing, and 28 configurable analog blocks. The outputs of the interface circuits can be multiplexed out in a time-division sequence or can be routed to the configurable analog blocks for further analog signal processing or data conversion. With more than 50,000 programmable elements and on-chip programming circuitry, RSSC is an extremely powerful tool to develop and test a great variety of smart sensory microsystems in minutes.
Keywords :
capacitive sensors; electric current measurement; intelligent sensors; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; programmable circuits; voltage measurement; analog signal processing; capacitive sensing; configurable analog blocks; current sensing; data conversion; interface circuits; large-scale floating-gate based IC; large-scale reconfigurable smart sensory chip; on-chip programming circuitry; smart sensory microsystems; time division sequence; voltage sensing; Analog integrated circuits; Capacitive sensors; Circuit testing; Fabrication; Hardware; Intelligent sensors; Large-scale systems; Prototypes; Silicon; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2009. ISCAS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3827-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3828-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118220
