Selected Publications*

    2009

  1. Shailesh Rai, Ying Su, W. Pang, R. Ruby, B. Otis, "A Digitally Compensated 1.5GHz CMOS/FBAR Frequency Reference," Accepted for publication, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
  2. Jagdish Pandey, Yu-Te Liao, Andrew Lingley, Babak Parviz and Brian Otis, "Toward an Active Contact Lens: Integration of a Wireless Power Harvesting IC," To be presented, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, November 2009
  3. D. Yeager, J. Holleman, R. Prasad, J. Smith, B. Otis, "NeuralWISP: A Wirelessly-Powered Neural Interface with 1-m Range," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
  4. Carlton Himes, Eric Carlson, Ryan J. Ricchiuti, Brian P. Otis, Babak A. Parviz, "Ultra-Low Voltage Nanoelectronics Powered Directly, and Solely, from a Tree," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
  5. B. Otis, C. Moritz, J. Holleman, A. Mishra, J. Pandey, S. Rai, D. Yeager, F. Zhang, "Circuit Techniques for Wireless Brain Interfaces," Invited Paper, IEEE EMBC, September 2009.
  6. E. Carlson, K. Strunz, B. Otis, "20mV Input Boost Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting," IEEE VLSI Symposium, June 2009.
  7. Yu-Te Liao, Will Beiderman, Brian Otis, "A CMOS Accelerometer Using Bondwire Inertial Sensing," IEEE VLSI Symposium, June 2009.
  8. Shailesh Rai, Ying Su, Aron Dobos, Richard Kim, W. Pang, R. Ruby, B. Otis, "A 1.5GHz Temperature Stable CMOS/FBAR Frequency Reference," IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (FCS), April 2009.
  9. J. Hu, W. Pang, R. Ruby, B. Otis, "A 750uW 1.575GHz Temperature-Stable FBAR-Based PLL," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Symposium, June 2009.
  10. Shailesh Rai, Jeremy Holleman, Jagdish Pandey, Fan Zhang, Brian Otis, "A 500uW Neural Tag with 2uVrms AFE and Frequency-Multiplying MICS/ISM FSKTransmitter," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), February 2009.

    11. 2008

  11. J. Holleman, D. Yeager, R. Prasad, J. Smith, and B. Otis, "Neural WISP: An energy harvesting wireless brain interface with 1m range," IEEE Biological Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference, November 2008.
  12. Jeremy Holleman, Apurva Mishra, Chris Diorio, and Brian Otis, "A Micro-Power Neural Spike Detector and Feature Extractor in .13um CMOS," IEEE CustomIntegrated Circuits Conference (CICC), September 2008.
  13. J. Hu and B. Otis, "A 3uW, 400 MHz Divide-by-5 Injection-Locked Frequency Divider with 56% Lock Range in 90nm CMOS," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Symposium, June 2008.
  14. J. Holleman, S. Bridges, B. Otis, C. Diorio, ``A 3uW CMOS True Random Number Generator with Adaptive Floating-Gate Offset Cancellation,'' IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, May 2008.
  15. Shailesh Rai, Brian Otis, "A 600 uW BAW-Tuned Quadrature VCO Using Source Degenerated Coupling", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol 43, No. 1, pp.300-305, January 2008.
  16. Ying Su, Jeremy Holleman, Brian Otis, "A Digital 1.6 pJ/bit Chip Identification Circuit Using Process Variations", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol 43, No. 1, pp. 69-77, January 2008.

    17. 2007

  17. B. Otis, S. Gambini, R. Shah, D. Steingart, E. Quevy, J. Rabaey, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, and P. Wright, "Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Highly Integrated, Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks", Journal of Computers & Digital Techniques, IET , vol.1, no.5, pp.528-536, Sept. 2007.
  18. Robert Egbert, Matt Harvey, Brian Otis, "Microscale SiliconThermoelectric Generator with Low Impedance for Energy Harvesting,"Proc. 5th European Conference on Thermoelectrics , Odessa, Ukraine,Sept 2007, pp. 219-221.
  19. Jeremy Holleman and Brian Otis, "A Sub-Microwatt Low-Noise Amplifier for Neural Recording", Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2007.
  20. Jeremy Holleman, Chris Diorio, and Brian Otis, "A Compact Pulse-Based Charge Pump in 0.13um CMOS", IEEE CustomIntegrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2007.
  21. Shailesh Rai and Brian Otis, "A 1V 600uW 2.1GHz Quadrature VCO Using BAW Resonators", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2007.
  22. Y. Su, J. Holleman, B. Otis "A 1.6pJ/bit 96% Stable Chip ID Generating Circuit using Process Variations", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2007.
  23. B. Otis and J. Rabaey, "Ultra-low Power Wireless Technologies for Sensor Networks", Springer-Verlag, 2007.

    24. 2006

  24. B. Otis, N. Pletcher, S. Rai, and J. Rabaey, "Low Power Techniques for Wireless Sensing" Chapter in: Advances in Analog Circuit Design. Springer Press, Nov 2006.
  25. J. Rabaey, J. Ammer, B. Otis, F. Burghardt, Y.H. Chee, N. Pletcher, M. Sheets, H. Qin, "Ultra-low-power design," IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, July-Aug. 2006.
  26. J. Holleman, B. Otis, S. Bridges, A. Mitros, and C. Diorio, "A 2.92 uW hardware random number generator," IEEE Proceedings of the 32nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2006.
  27. B. Liu, B. Otis, S. Challa, P. Axon, C. Chou, and S. Jha, "On the Fading and Shadowing Effects for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE International Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2006.
  28. B. Otis, M. Sheets, Y.H. Chee, H. Qin, N. Pletcher, and J. Rabaey, "Circuits and Technologies for Wireless Sensor Networks," Chapter in: Hardware Technology Drivers of Ambient Intelligence. Kluwer Press, Feb 2006.

    29. 2005

  29. Y. Li, F. De Bernardinis, B. Otis, J.M. Rabaey, and A. Sangiovanni Vincentelli, "A Low-Power Mixed- Signal Baseband System Design for Wireless Sensor Networks", Proceedings of the IEEE CICC, Sept 2005.
  30. S. Roundy, E. Leland, J. Baker, E. Carleton, E. Reilly, E. Lai, B. Otis, J. Rabaey, V. Sundararajan and P.K. Wright, "Improving Power Output for Vibration-Based Energy Scavengers", IEEE Pervasive Computing Journal on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Volume 4 , Number 1, January - March 2005, pp. 28-36.
  31. B. Otis, Y.H. Chee, J. Rabaey, "A 400uW Rx, 1.6mW Tx Super-regenerative transceiver for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, Feb 2005.

    32. 2004

  32. B. Otis, Y.H. Chee, R. Lu, N.Pletcher, J. Rabaey, "An Ultra-Low Power MEMS-Based Two-Channel Transceiver for Wireless Sensor Networks", Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Honolulu, HI, June 2004.
  33. B. Otis, J. Rabaey, Y.H. Chee, R. Lu, N. Pletcher, S. Gambini, "Highly Integrated Ultra-Low Power RF Transceivers for Wireless Sensor Networks", CRC Press, 2004.
  34. M. Sheets, B. Otis, F. Burghardt, J. Ammer, T. Karalar, P. Monat, and J. Rabaey, "A (6x3)cm2 Self-Contained Energy-Scavenging Wireless Sensor Network Node," Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC) 2004, Abano Terme, Italy.

    35. 2003

  35. S. Roundy, B. Otis, Y.H. Chee, J. Rabaey, P. Wright, "A 1.9GHz RF Transmit Beacon using Environmentally Scavenged Energy", Dig. IEEE Int. Symposium on Low Power Elec. and Devices (ISLPED), Seoul, Korea, 2003.
  36. B. Otis, J. Rabaey, "A 300uW 1.9GHz CMOS Oscillator Utilizing Micromachined Resonators", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol 38, pp. 1271-1274, July, 2003.

    37. 2002

  37. B. Otis, J. Rabaey, "A 300uW 1.9GHz CMOS Oscillator Utilizing Micromachined Resonators", Proceedings of the European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Florence, Italy, September 2002.
  38. J. Rabaey, J. Ammer, T. Karalar, S. Li, B. Otis, M. Sheets, T. Tuan, "PicoRadios for Wireless Sensor Networks: The Next Challenge in Ultra-Low-Power Design", Proceedings of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, February 3-7, 2002.
  39. Tremblay K., Kraus N., McGee T., Ponton C. and Otis B. "Central Auditory Plasticity: Changes in the N1-P2 complex following speech-sound training", Ear and Hearing. 22:2, 79-90, 2001

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