Rajeevan Amirtharajah's Publications
Refereed Journal Publications
- R. Amirtharajah and A. Chandrakasan,``A Micropower Programmable DSP
Using Approximate Signal Processing Based on Distributed Arithmetic,''
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, to appear.
- J. R. Benham, R. Amirtharajah, J. Critchlow, T. Simon, and
T. F. Knight, Jr., ``An Alignment Insensitive Separable
Electromagnetic Coupler for High Speed Digital Multidrop Bus
Applications,'' IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and
Techniques, to appear.
- S. Meninger, J.-O. Mur-Miranda, R. Amirtharajah,
A. Chandrakasan, and J. Lang, ``Vibration-to-Electric Energy
Conversion,'' IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 9,
No. 1, Feb. 2001, pp. 64-76.
- A. Dancy, R. Amirtharajah, and A. Chandrakasan,
``High-Efficiency Multiple-Output DC-DC Conversion for Low-Voltage
Systems,'' IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 8,
No. 3, June 2000, pp. 252-63.
- R. Amirtharajah and A. Chandrakasan, ``Self-Powered Signal
Processing Using Vibration-Based Power Generation,'' IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 33, No. 5, May 1998,
pp. 687-695.
Conference Proceedings
- J. R. Benham, R. Amirtharajah, J. Critchlow, T. Simon, and
T. F. Knight, Jr., ``An Alignment Insensitive Separable
Electromagnetic Coupler for High Speed Digital Multidrop Bus
Applications,'' 2003 International Microwave Symposium,
June 2003.
- T. Simon, R. Amirtharajah, J.R. Benham, J. Critchlow, and
T.F. Knight, Jr., ``A 1.6 Gb/s/pair Electromagnetically Coupled
Multidrop Bus Using Modulated Signaling,'' 2003 ISSCC Digest
of Technical Papers, Feb. 2003, pp. 184-5, 487.
- R. Amirtharajah, S. Meninger, J.-O. Mur-Miranda,
A. Chandrakasan, and J. Lang, ``A Micropower Programmable DSP
Powered Using a MEMS-Based Vibration-to-Electric Energy
Converter,'' 2000 ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers, 2000,
pp. 362-3, 469.
- R. Amirtharajah, T. Xanthopoulos, and A. Chandrakasan, ``Power
Scalable Processing Using Distributed Arithmetic,'' 1999
International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design,
1999, pp. 170-5.
- S. Meninger, J.-O. Mur-Miranda, R. Amirtharajah,
A. Chandrakasan, and J. Lang, ``Vibration-to-Electric Energy
Conversion,'' 1999 International Symposium on Low Power
Electronics and Design, 1999, pp. 48-53.
- A. Chandrakasan, R. Amirtharajah, S.-H. Cho, J. Goodman,
G. Konduri, J. Kulik, W. Rabiner, and A. Wang, ``Design
Considerations for Distributed Microsensor Systems,'' 1999
Proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits
Conference, 1999, pp. 279-86.
- A. Chandrakasan, R. Amirtharajah, J. Goodman, and W. Rabiner,
``Trends in Low Power Digital Signal Processing,'' 1998
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 4,
1998, pp. 604-7.
- R. Amirtharajah and A. Chandrakasan, ``Self-Powered Low Power
Signal Processing,'' 1997 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Digest of
Technical Papers, June 1997, pp. 25-26.
- M. Bolotski, T. Simon, C. Vieri, R. Amirtharajah, and
T.F. Knight, Jr., ``Abacus: A 1024 Processor 8 ns SIMD
Array,''Proc. Sixteenth Conference on Advanced Research in
VLSI, March 1995, pp. 28-40.
- M. Bolotski, et al., ``Abacus: A High-Performance
Architecture for Vision,'' Proc. of ICPR, 1994.
Book Chapters
- A. Chandrakasan, R. Amirtharajah, A. Dancy, J. Goodman,
W. Rabiner, and T. Xanthopoulos, ``Future Directions in Energy
Efficient Computing,'' in Low-Power, High-Speed ULSI Circuits
and Technology, Realize, Inc., Japan, 1998.
Patents
- T. Simon, R. Amirtharajah, T. F. Knight, Jr., N. Marketkar, and
J. R. Benham, ``Electromagnetically Coupled Bus System,''
U.S. Patent No. 6,625,682 (2003).
- N. Marketkar, J. R. Benham, T. F. Knight, Jr., and
R. Amirtharajah, ``An Electromagnetic Coupler Circuit Board Having
at Least One Angled Conductive Trace,'' U.S. Patent No. 6,611,181
(2003).
- J. R. Benham, N. Marketkar, and R. Amirtharajah, ``An
Electromagnetic Coupler,'' U.S. Patent No. 6,573,801 (2003).
- T. Simon and R. Amirtharajah, ``Clock Reshaping,'' U.S. Patent
No. 6,498,512 (2002).
Thirteen patent applications pending in the area of high speed
interconnect and i/o circuits.
Talks
- R. Amirtharajah, ``A 1.6 Gb/s/pair Electromagnetically Coupled
Multidrop Bus Using Pulse-Based Modulated Signaling,'' 6.976 Invited
Guest Lecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 9, 2003
(Cambridge, MA).
- R. Amirtharajah, ``Micropower Energy Scalable DSP Systems
Powered From Vibration-to-Electric Energy Conversion,'' Invited
Seminar, Brown University, Nov. 20, 2002 (Providence, RI).
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