1. Electronics System Design
Mattias O’Nils, Bengt Oelmann, Munir Abdalla
Trond Ytterdal*, Tang Lei*
Benny Thörnberg, Håkan Norell, Shang Xue, Jan Lundgren, Cao Cao*, Jon Alfredsson*
ITM, Electronics design division

2. Activities Electronics design division (Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson)
Sensor
Electronics system design
Simulation
Fibre
RFID
Mixed-signal design
Low-power design
Real-time image processning
Bengt Oelmann
Johan Sidén
Peter Jonsson
Torbjörn Olsson
Mattias O’Nils
Bengt Oelmann
Munir Abdalla
Jan Lundgren
Trond Ytterdal*
Mattias O’Nils
Bengt Oelmann
Cao Cao*
Jon Alfredsson*
Mattias O’Nils
Bengt Oelmann
Shang Xue
Håkan Norell
Benny Thörnberg
Tang Lei*
ITM, Electronics design division

3. Analog and Mixed-signal
Readout electronics for X-ray imaging
Integrating pixel read-out
Photon-counting radiation detection (Colour X-ray imaging)
Behavioural model of photon-counting pixel
Behavioural noise coupling simulation
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4. Analog and Mixed-signal X-ray pixel detectors and readout
Integration read-out
Pixelated detector structures
Photon counting read-out
Together with the
Medipix project
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5. Analog and Mixed-signal Behavioural modelling
X-ray source
Charge
integrator
Clock
generator
Event
counter
Filter
Detector
Pulse shaping
Discriminator HP LP
Modelled in SystemC as
synchronous data flow
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6. Analog and Mixed-signal Noise coupling simulation
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7. Analog and Mixed-signal Noise coupling simulation
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8. ITM, Electronics design division
Low-power design
Low-power FSM implementation
Low-power floating-gate
ITM, Electronics design division

9. Low-power design Low-power finite-state machine design
In the 8051 mC, the controller consumes
50% of the total power S4 S0
CAD-tool for power optimization S2 S1
State-transition graph S3
Input switching probabilities
Statistics collection
(FSM simulator) S1 S4
S0T
Technology information
S2T
S3T
Partitioner S2
Local FSM transformation
User constraints
FSM #1
FSM #2
VHDL code for logic synthesis
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10. Low-power design Low-power low-voltage floating-gate CMOS
UV-programmable 2-input gate
Sub-threshold technique for
digital and analog functions
Basic digital gates + Flip/flops
Analog cells: current mirrors, multipliers etc.
Vdd
Vss a b z FG
Performance:
Process: 0.8mm CMOS
Vdd=0.2V
Energy: Full-adder 0.6fJ
2500 times lower power consumption than standard-cell FG
Programmability:
Post-processing UV-programming
Power-speed trade-offs made in the post- processing step
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11. Real-time image processing
Interface and memory architecture refinement
Behavioural modelling and design analysis
Low-power optimisations
Algorithm improvement
Rapid prototyping
Video coding
Image enhancement
Video enhancement
Angiography X-ray image enhancement
Dental panoramic X-ray image reconstruction
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12. Real-time image processing IMEM
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13. Real-time image processing RIPA
In stream
Out stream
FPGA
Buffer
Memory
Interfaces
Store all active frames
Communication
speed
(PAL:30 Mbyts/s)
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14. Real-time image processing Design of robust VLC Codecs
Video transmission over a noisy channel
VLC Coder
Channel
VLC Decoder
Data packet
Bit error
Lost data
symbol
symbol
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15. Real-time image processing Video filter
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16. Real-time image processing Angiography image enhancement
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17. Real-time image processing Panoramic image reconstruction
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18. ITM, Electronics design division
RFID-tag
7.5 mm
49 mm
No internal power supply
1 mm
Research topics at MH
Robust antenna design
RFID Application surroundings
Fractal antenna design
ITM, Electronics design division