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
Color Glove for the Blind
Development of a color glove that allows the visually-impaired to sense color from their finger tips
Gait Adaptation on Visually Guided Walking Robots
Application of neurobiology to robotic leg locomotion.
High sensitivity imagers for functional imaging
Design and implementation of a CMOS imager for head-mounted functional imaging in awake and behaving animals.
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.