Rajeevan Amirtharajah's Publications

  1. Refereed Journal Publications

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. 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.
    5. 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.

  2. Conference Proceedings

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. 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.
    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.
    6. 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.
    7. 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.
    8. 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.
    9. 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.
    10. M. Bolotski, et al., ``Abacus: A High-Performance Architecture for Vision,'' Proc. of ICPR, 1994.
  3. Book Chapters

    1. 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.
  4. Patents

    1. 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).
    2. 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).
    3. J. R. Benham, N. Marketkar, and R. Amirtharajah, ``An Electromagnetic Coupler,'' U.S. Patent No. 6,573,801 (2003).
    4. 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.

  5. Talks

    1. 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).
    2. 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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