Projects
Current Projects:
Battery Cells Balancer
Design of an integrated balancer (with analog front-ends) which continuously monitors the state of battery cells
Bidirectional Neuroprostheses
Design of a neuroprosthetic device that will re-enable locomotion in paraplegic individuals
Bio-Processing Microsystem
Design and implementation of a bio-processing microsystem
Gait Adaptation on Visually Guided Walking Robots
Application of neurobiology to robotic leg locomotion.
Integrate-and-Fire Array Transceiver
An array of integrate and fire silicon neurons with an Address-Event Representation (AER) interface.
Mobile Vision Enhancement System
Human factors in the design of vision enhancement systems
Motor Controller
Design of a reconfigurable and adaptive integrated microcontroller for minimally invasive surgery
Neural Cross Correlation Engine
Design of a low-power neuromorphic circuit that uses silicon neurons to produce a cross-correlation function for a pair of input signals
Neuromorphic Object Recognition
Design of an autonomous, continuous-time visual system that emulates object recognition
in the primate visual cortex.
Normal Optical Flow Imager
A CMOS imager that computes the optical flow of the image.
Optimization of Neural Networks
Configuring spiking neural networks using genetic algorithms
Single-Chip Stereo Imager
A stereo vision IC, including two APS imagers and video-rate depth-computation circuitry on one chip.
Ultrasonic Imaging Array
Design and optimization of a tissue specific ultrasonic transducer micro-array
Past Projects:
Low Noise Imager with Centroid Tracking
An imager that uses focal-plane processing to extract the centroid of a moving object in the
field of view, and outputs a low-noise high-quality image of the scene
MEMS microphone
2D array of ultrasonic MEMS sensors with on chip processing designed for
imaging hazardous enviorments.
Programmable Spatiotemporal Image Processor
A 16 x 16 pixel vision chip with on board spatiotemporal focal-plane processing.
Foveated Silicon Retina
VLSI design of a chip to compute direction of motion and centroid of a target and output
the image of the target.
High Resolution Imager
Active pixel-sensor using a single-capacitor-single contact pixel in a
BiCMOS process with CDS.
Ray Station
A rapid ray tracing 3D renderer built on custom multiprocessor hardware.