Sector: Sensors, MEMS, Electronics
Modeling of High-speed Diamond Microswitch
CVD grown diamond is a new attractive MEMS material and has been used here to realize a microswitch with extreme properties. Still at present the technological development requires a fast turnaround of the design based [...]
Hardware Realization of Biological Mechanisms Using VHDL and FPGAs
In this paper we present a hardware realization of a simplified blood-pressure regulation mechanism. The mechanism has been proposed and then modeled by using Hardware Description Language (VHDL). After verifying the simulation results, Computer Aided [...]
Compact Models for Smart Pixels with Smart Illumination
Smart Pixels with Smart Illumination (SPSI) is a recently developed technology that enables the monolithic integration of two functionalities-optical illumination and detection- into arrays of optoelectronic ‘pixels’ in a compact and robust manner. To facilitate [...]
A Synthesizable Low Power VHDL Model of the Exact Solution of Three Dimensional Hyperbolic Positioning System
This paper presents a synthesizable low power VHDL model of a three-dimensional hyperbolic positioning system algorithm. The algorithm derives the equations needed to obtain an exact solution for the three dimensional location of a mobile [...]
A FEM Based Network Approach for the Simulation of Miniaturized Electromagnetic Devices
The paper proposes a new computational approach for analyzing miniaturized electromagnetic devices. This approach is based on a general structure of an equivalent network for the coupled electromagnetic problem. It enables automated derivation of the [...]
Electromechanical Analysis of Micromechanical SOI-Fabricated RF Resonators
Lamminmäki T., Ruokonen K., Tittonen I., Mattila T., Jaakkola O., Oja A., Seppä H., Seppälä P., Seppälä P., Kiihamäki J., Helsinki University of Technology, FI
In this paper, finite element method (FEM) simulations are used to model mechanical properties of MEMS resonators. Using a static displacement analysis the effective spring constant and mass are calculated. Non-linearity of the mechanical restoring [...]
Techniques for Coupled Circuit and Micromechanical Simulation
This paper details advanced simulation techniques for efficiently determining system behavior of integrated microsystems that contains both circuit elements and micromechanical ones. Techniques for building reduced-order dynamical models for coupled energy domain non-liner (both weakly [...]
A Method for Thermal Model Generation of MEMS Packages
MEMS applications are frequently thermally operated, so knowing the thermal characteristics of their packages is very important. This paper presents a method for the generation of reduced order dynamic thermal models, either from simulated or [...]
Low Order Squeeze Film Model for Simulation of MEMS Devices
A low-order behavioral squeeze film model of oscillating planar microstructures with critical dimensions in the range of a few microns is presented. Simulation results from this model are within 3% of those obtained from high-fidelity [...]