Signal Processing Techniques for Delta-Sigma Noise-Shaping / Floating-Gate Low Voltage CMOS Techniques - 1996-2003

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Publications (International journal papers and conference proceedings with referee)

• Høvin, Mats Erling; Kiaei, Sayfe; Lande, Tor Sverre. Delta - Sigma frequency-to-time conversion by triangularly weighted ZC counter [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design 1997 1997. Publisert i: Proceedings
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre; Marienborg, Jan Tore; Wisland, Dag T. Pattern noise in the frequency delta-sigma modulator [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE NORCHIP'99 no 17 1999. Publisert i: Proceedings NORCHIP 99
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre; Wisland, Dag T; Kiaei, Sayfe. Triangularly weighted zero-crossing detector providing Sigma Delta frequency-to-digital conversion. ELECTRONICS LETTERS 1997;33(13):1121-1122
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Olsen, Alf; Lande, Tor Sverre; Toumazou, Chris. Delta-Sigma Converters using Frequency-Modulated Intermediate Values [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 1995. Publisert i: Proceedings of the ISCAS'05
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Olsen, Alf; Lande, Tor Sverre; Toumazou, Chris. Delta-Sigma Modulators using Frequency-Modulated Intermediate Values. IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS 1997;32(1):13-22. (pdf)
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Olsen, Alf; Lande, Tor Sverre; Toumazou, Chris. Novel second-order delta-sigma modulator/frequency-to-digital converter. ELECTRONICS LETTERS 1995;31(2):81-82
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Sæther, Trond; Wisland, Dag T; Lande, Tor Sverre. A Narrow-Band Delta-Sigma Frequency-to-Digital Converter [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 1997. Publisert i: Proceedings of the ISCAS'97
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Wisland, Dag T; Berg, Yngvar; Lande, Tor Sverre. A Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter Operating at a Power-Supply Voltage of 0.6V [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. NorChip 2001 2001
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Wisland, Dag T; Berg, Yngvar; Lande, Tor Sverre. A frequency delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter operating at a power-supply voltage og 0.6 V. ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING 2003
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Wisland, Dag T; Berg, Yngvar; Lande, Tor Sverre. A LOW-VOLTAGE SINC2 DECIMATOR IMPLEMENTED BY A NEW CIRCUIT TECHNIQUE USING FLOATING-GATE MOS TRANSISTORS [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. 2002-IEEE-International-Symposium-on-Circuits-and-Systems 2002
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Wisland, Dag T; Marienborg, Jan Tore; Lande, Tor Sverre. Delta-sigma modulation in single neurons [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. 2002-IEEE-International-Symposium-on-Circuits-and-Systems 2002
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling; Wisland, Dag T; Marienborg, Jan Tore; Lande, Tor Sverre; Berg, Yngvar. Pattern Noise in the Frequency Delta-Sigma Modulator. ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING 2001;26(1):75-82
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Næss, Øivind; Høvin, Mats Erling. Exploiting SINH and TANH shaped Ultra Low-Voltage Floating-Gate Transconductance Amplifiers to reduce HArmonic Distortion [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2001. Publisert i: Proceedings ISCAS
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Næss, Øivind; Høvin, Mats Erling. Floating-gate CMOS Differential Analog Inverter for Ultra Low-Voltage Applications [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2001. Publisert i: Proceedings ISCAS
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Næss, Øivind; Lomsdalen, Johannes Golpen; Bush, Joseph; Høvin, Mats Erling. Binary Input Multiple-Valued Recharge Full-Adders [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. European Conference on Circuit Theori and Design; 01.09.2003 - 04.09.2003. Publisert i: Proceedings
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Næss, Øivind; Lomsdalen, Johannes Golpen; Høvin, Mats Erling. Exploiting Hyperbolic Functions to Increase Linearity in Low-Voltage Floating-Gate Transconductance Amplifiers [Poster]. International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS); 25.05.2003 - 28.05.2003. Publisert i: Proceedings
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Næss, Øivind; Mirmotahari, Omid; Høvin, Mats Erling. Binary to Multiple-Valued Recharge Converter for Multiple-Valued CMOS Logic [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. European Conference on Circuit and Systems (ECCTD); 01.09.2003 - 04.09.2003. Publisert i: Proceedings
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Næss, Øivind; Aunet, Snorre; Høvin, Mats Erling. A Novel Floating-Gate Multiple-Valued Signal to Binary Signal Converter [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS) 2002. Publisert i: Proceedings
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Næss, Øivind; Aunet, Snorre; Jensen, Rene; Høvin, Mats Erling. Novel Floating-Gate Multiple-Valued Signal to Binary Signal Converters for Multiple-Valued Logic [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2002. Publisert i: Proceedings
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Næss, Øivind; Aunet, Snorre; Lomsdalen, Johannes Golpen; Høvin, Mats Erling. A novel Floating-Gate Binary signal to Multiple-Valued signal Converter for Multiple-Valued CMOS Logic [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS) 2002. Publisert i: Proceedings
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Næss, Øivind; Høvin, Mats Erling. Ultra lowvoltage floating-gate transconductance amplifier [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2000. Publisert i: Proceedings fulltext
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Næss, Øivind; Høvin, Mats Erling. Ultra lowvoltage floating-gate transconductance amplifier with tunable ga in and linearity [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2000. Publisert i: Proceedings fulltext
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Næss, Øivind; Høvin, Mats Erling. Ultralow-voltage floating-gate analog multiplier with tunable linearity [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2000. Publisert i: Proceedings fulltext
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Næss, Øivind; Høvin, Mats Erling; Gundersen, Henning. Ultra low-voltage floating-gate (FGUVMOS) amplifiers. ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING 2001;26:63-73
  
  
• Finsrud, Monica; Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre. Adaptive correction in residue couped MASH delta-sigma modulators [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE Norchip 2002 2002
  
  
• Finsrud, Monica; Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre. Adaptive Correction of Errors in Residue Coupled MASH ?S Modulators. ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING 2003
  
  
• Finsrud, Monica; Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre. Adaptive correction of errors in second-order MASH Delta-Sigma FDM solution.. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II-ANALOG AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING 2001:1005-1013
  
  
• Finsrud, Monica; Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre. Second Order MASH delta-sigma FDM-solution with adaptive improvements. [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2001 2001. Publisert i: ICECS 2001
  
  
• Marienborg, Jan Tore; Lande, Tor Sverre; Abusland, Ånen; Høvin, Mats Erling. An analog approach to "neuromorphic" communication [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'96) 1996. Publisert i: Proceedings of the ISCAS'96
  
  
• Marienborg, Jan Tore; Lande, Tor Sverre; Høvin, Mats Erling. Neuromorphic noise shaping in coupled neuron populations [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. ISCAS 2002 2002. Publisert i: Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  
  
• Marienborg, Jan Tore; Lande, Tor Sverre; Høvin, Mats Erling; Abusland, Ånen. Neuromorphic analog communication [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. The 1996 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'96) 1996. Publisert i: Proceedings of the ICNN'96
  
  
• Wisland, Dag T; Høvin, Mats Erling; Fleischer, Lars A.; Lande, Tor Sverre. A new scalable non-feedback Delta-Sigma Digital-to-Analog Converter [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. 9th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 2002
  
  
• Wisland, Dag T; Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre. A non-feedback Delta-Sigma modulator for digital-to-analog conversion using digital frequency modulation. ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING 2004;41(2-3):209-222
  
  
• Wisland, Dag T; Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre. A Novel Multi-Bit Parallel Delta-Sigma FM-to-Digital Converter with 24-bit Resolution [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. 32nd European Solid-State Circuit Conference (ESSCIRC 2002); 25.09.2002 - 27.09.2002. Publisert i: Proc. European Solid-State Circuit Conference; 2002
  
  
• Wisland, Dag T; Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre. A second-order non-feedback Delta-Sigma modulator for D/A conversion [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. 9th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 2002
  
  
• Wisland, Dag T; Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre. A 32 kHz Floating-Gate Crystal Oscillator for Ultra Low Voltage Operation Using a Novel Programming Approach [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. 19th Norchip conference 2001. Publisert i: Proceedings 19th Norchip conference
  
  
• Wisland, Dag T; Høvin, Mats Erling; Lande, Tor Sverre. Quantization noise in the first-order non-feedback delta-sigma modulator with DC-input [Poster]. 9th international symposium on circuits and systems (ISCAS); 25.05.2003 - 28.05.2003. Publisert i: Proceedings
  
  
• Wisland, Dag T; Sæther, Trond; Lande, Tor Sverre; Høvin, Mats Erling. PLL center-frequency tuning using floating-gates [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. The Eleventh Annual IEEE International ASIC Conference 1998. Publisert i: Proceedings Eleventh Annual IEEE International ASIC Conference
  
  
• Abusland, Ånen; Lande, Tor Sverre; Høvin, Mats Erling. A VLSI communication architecture for stochastically pulse-encoded analog signals [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'96) 1996. Publisert i: Proceeding of the ISCAS'96
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Gundersen, Henning; Høvin, Mats Erling; Næss, Øivind. Extreme Low-Voltage Floating-Gate CMOS Transconductance Amplifier [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2001. Publisert i: Proceeding ISCAS
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Mirmotahari, Omid; Høvin, Mats Erling. Novel Recharge Semi-Floating-Gate Logic for Multiple-Valued Systems [Poster]. International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS); 25.05.2003 - 28.05.2003. Publisert i: Proceedings
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Næss, Øivind; Gundersen, Henning; Høvin, Mats Erling. A 0.3V Floating-Gate Differential Amplifier Input Stage with Tunable Gain [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) 2001. Publisert i: Proceedings ICECS
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Næss, Øivind; Hagen, Øyvind; Høvin, Mats Erling. A Novel Floating-Gate Multiple-Valued CMOS Full-Adder [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS); 28.05.2002 - 31.05.2002. Publisert i: Proceedings of ISCAS
  
  
• Berg, Yngvar; Aunet, Snorre; Næss, Øivind; Høvin, Mats Erling. A Novel Low-Voltage Floating-gate CMOS Transconductance Amplifier with sinh(tanh) Shaped Output Current [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) 2001. Publisert i: Proceedings ICECS

Invited talks

• Høvin, Mats Erling. Delta-sigma modulatorer med frekvens-modulert intern-verdi / frekvens-til-digital konvertere med delta-sigma støyforming [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. Dak Forum 1996
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling. Introduksjon til delta-sigma støyforming [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. Dak Forum 1996
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling. Delta-sigma modulatorer med frekvens-modulert intern-verdi / frekvens-til-digital konvertere med delta-sigma støyforming [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. NTH 1996
  
  
• Høvin, Mats Erling. Delta-sigma modulatorer med frekvens-modulert intern-verdi / frekvens-til-digital konvertere med delta-sigma støyforming [Vitenskapelig foredrag]. Nordic VLSI 1996

Awards

• Oslo Innovation Center: ”The National Reseach Idea Competition 1997”, 1.price. Award 97

Patents:

Høvin, M and Lande T.S. Analog-to-digital conversion using frequency modulated input or as intermediate value.

• European patent no: 98925808.2 (0988704)
  
  
• US Patent # 6,362,769 B1 of 26.03.2002

Phd students

• Dag Wisland - Graduated: 2003. Supervised by M.Høvin and T.S.Lande
  
  
• Monica Finsrud - Graduated: 2002. Supervised by M.Høvin and T.S.Lande

Master students

• Lars Albert Fleischer - Graduated 2003. Supervised by M.Høvin and D.T.Wisland.
  
  
• Ole Flaten - Graduated 2001. Supervised by M.Høvin and T.S.Lande.
  
  
• Helge Aarvik - Graduated 2005. Supervised by M.Høvin
  
  
• Ståle A. Skogstad - Currently active. Supervised by M.Høvin

Master / Phd Thesis

• Novel Delta-Sigma Modulators Using Frequency-Modulated Intermediate Values Master Thesis (Cand.Scient) - M.Høvin 1995.
  
  
• First-Order Frequency Delta-Sigma Modulation Phd Thesis (Dr.Scient) - M.Høvin 2000.

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From 2003 Mats Høvin has changed his reaseach interest to Algorithms for Machine Learning and Robotics. However, the Delta-Sigma reaseach activity is continued by Dag Wisland and Tor Sverre Lande