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A new fabrication technique for wearable humidity sensors developed from graphene oxide and paper cellulose fiber provides enhanced efficiency and a reduced environmental impact.聽   A team of researchers from Khalifa University's System on Chip Lab (SoCL) has developed a novel humidity sensor from environmentally friendly paper cellulose fiber and graphene oxide matrix. Their sensor, which is also biocompatible, is designed for use in various wearable electronic devices and has already been employed in several applications, including non-contact proximity sensing, environmental humidity detection, and human respiration detection. The applications showcase the sensors broad potential.聽   Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Muhammad Umair…

Electrical components made from paper and graphene oxide could mark the next breakthrough in flexible wearable electronics for a wide range of applications聽   Researchers from Khalifa University鈥檚 System-on-Chip Laboratory (SoCL) have developed a flexible memristor device using cellulose and graphene oxide that has the potential to revolutionize wearable electronics. It is low-cost, flexible, biocompatible and conveniently disposable. They published their original work in MRS Bulletin and a further study testing their material for ultraviolet and sunlight monitoring in Nanoscale Research Letters.   The team included Dr. Anas Alazzam, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Nahla Alamoodi, Assistant Professor of…

Dr. Mohamed Hassan is an Assistant Professor at McMaster University, Canada, where he leads the Fanos research lab focusing on intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems-on-Chip. He also worked as a System-on-Chip (SoC) R&D lead engineer at Intel and as a SoC Performance Architect at Qualcomm. He obtained his PhD from University of Waterloo in 2017. Dr. Hassan won multiple awards including the Discovery Launch Supplement Award from NSERC, the PhD Thesis Award and the Faculty of Engineering (FOE) Award from University of Waterloo, the ACM SIGBED Best Paper Award in ACM/IEEE Embedded Systems Week, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Real-Time…

With more devices connected to the internet, there鈥檚 a need for new computing platforms to speed up data processing closer to these 鈥榚dge鈥� devices. Khalifa University researchers are looking to analog computing to to support data processing at the source where the data is being generated   Devices at the 鈥榚dge鈥� of the network 鈥� which includes Internet of Things (IoT) devices placed in homes and offices and are physically distanced from computer processing centers 鈥� produce a massive amount of data that needs to be transferred to and computed at data centers. These edge devices are pushing network bandwidth…

MIT Technology Review and Majarra have jointly revealed the list of the 2021 Innovators under 35 MENA winners. Khalifa University's Dr. Ali AlHammadi, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Dr. Yasmin Halawani, Postdoctoral Fellow, System-on-Chip Lab (SoCL), were among the 15 innovators recognized.   The Innovators under 35 list 星空传媒 the contributions of the most brilliant researchers, experts, and scientists who are breaking new ground in creating solutions for challenges in their communities.   Dr. Ali AlHammadi is recognized for his geospatial insights for smart cities. He developed deep learning models with remote sensing-capable satellites for object detection and…

Speaker: Dr. Mohammed Alser,聽a Senior Researcher and Lecturer of Bioinformatics and Computer Architecture at ETH Zurich. Brief: Our understanding of human genomes today is affected by the ability of modern computing technology to quickly and accurately determine an individual鈥檚 entire genome. Analyzing our genomes is the foundation of many scientific and medical discoveries, and serves as a key enabler of personalized medicine. Our starting axiom for a modern genome analysis is that it should interpret our genomes accurately, quickly, and affordably enough. This talk describes our ongoing journey in enabling efficient genome analysis. We first provide a brief background on…

  The 鈥榤emimpedance鈥� device can control current flow in a circuit, and could make electronics like wearable sensors, flexible medical devices and biodegradable electronics more efficient   A team from Khalifa University has developed a novel electronic 鈥榤emimpedance鈥� device that can act as a switch and induce tunable resistor and capacitor behavior simultaneously in an electronic circuit.   A resistor is an electrical component that regulates the flow of electrons in a circuit, while a capacitor is an electrical component that collects and stores electrical charge.   Being able to control flow of electrons, or current, in a circuit is…

  Research partners seek to deliver reliability, security to flight computer system applications聽   Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have multiple potential uses. To optimize their operability and efficiency, they need to be protected from hackers and must also expend minimal energy to extend their flight time. A variety of internal components tell the drone where to go, how to orient itself and how to avoid danger. However, some of these factors may be exploited to wrest control of the drone from its rightful operator.   In collaboration with the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research…

A science paper written by researchers from Khalifa University鈥檚 System on Chip Center (SoCC) received 1,800 article downloads in 2020, placing it as one of the top 100 downloaded materials science papers for Scientific Reports in 2020. Their paper describes a new type of flexible memristor device, that could extend the application of memristors to flexible electronic technologies like wearable smart devices. Scientific Reports published more than 650 materials science papers in 2020, and so a position in the top 100 most downloaded articles is an extraordinary achievement, showing that KU鈥檚 science is of real value to the research community!…

The original computers were designed around a human brain model. Since then, developments in artificial intelligence and computer science continue to take inspiration from the brain.   Read Arabic story here.   The human brain has always been under study for inspiration of computing systems. Although there鈥檚 a very long way to go until we can achieve a computing system that matches the efficiency of the human brain for cognitive tasks, several brain-inspired computing paradigms are being researched. Convolutional neural networks are a widely used machine learning approach for AI-related applications due to their significant performance relative to rules-based or…

Researchers from Khalifa University鈥檚 Systems-on-Chip Lab have had three papers accepted into the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). ISCAS is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the world鈥檚 premier networking forum for researchers in the fields of theory, design, and implementation of circuits and systems.   The 2020 conference was held as a virtual event, with all papers available in Open Preview and video presentations hosted to inform participants of the papers鈥� contents. The conference is designed to emphasize the potential of circuits and systems to find multidisciplinary solutions for the societal…

This paper presents a novel analog resistive random-access memory (RRAM), named NeuroMem, which consists of Au/GO/Au. The device's resistance can be tuned to any value within its R聽OFF聽to R聽ON聽range with high precision. The analog characteristic of NeuroMem mimics the memorization behavior of the brain, which makes it great asset for artificial neural network applications. In this work, NeuroMem-based crossbars are fabricated to hold the synaptic weights needed to perform Iris classification. The weight values are mapped to conductance states within NeuroMem R聽OFF聽to R聽ON range, and then written accurately on the actual devices. Unlike other RRAM-based hardware with limited conductance states,…

A 28GHz, Modified Doherty Power Amplifier (MDPA) was implemented in 22nm FDSOI CMOS technology from GF. The MDPA adopts an asymmetrical topology utilizing two cascode CMOS amplifiers as the main (Class-A) and auxiliary (Class-C). This allows a supply voltage of 2.5V and consequently higher output power. The use of a main Class-A amplifier is conducive to a higher linearity (IIP3). The integrated design implements the main and auxiliary amplifier, along with the matching and transmission line networks on chip. The fabricated amplifier occupies an area of 1.2mm聽2聽, exhibits 12 dBm saturated output power, a peak power gain of 10dB, 16%…

The electrocardiogram signal (ECG), a record of electrical activity of the cardiac muscle, has been used in diagnosing many cardiopathies. Wearable devices equipped with readout sensors and circuits can be used to record and process weak ECG signals. In this paper, a pre-trained neural network was implemented for detecting the QRS feature of an ECG signal, which is crucial for auto-diagnostic of various cardiopathies. To take advantage of the fast evolution of artificial intelligence and its ability to find non-linear relationships, neural network based feature extraction of ECG signals for wearable devices was explored and tested using ASIC implementation flow.…

This paper presents a fast and an efficient digital LDO (DLDO) regulator utilizing a clock-less ratioed logic comparator (RLC). In addition to eliminating the clock, the proposed RLC-DLDO removes the shift registers used in the conventional DLDO. It achieves a transient speed improvement in the ns range and a quiescent current reduction by 9X over the conventional DLDO design that targets聽渭A load current. The RLC-DLDO has an input voltage range between 0.8V and 0.6V and generates an output voltage range between 0.7V to 0.5V for load current between 10渭A and 500渭A. The design is implemented in 22nm FDSOI and occupies…

A team of researchers from Khalifa University has designed and developed a memristor-based image compression architecture to speed up image transfer while also making the devices using this technology smaller and more energy efficient.   Read Arabic story here: http://www.researchku.com/news-8-extended.php?id=8 In the time of unlimited data phone plans, it鈥檚 easy to forget that we were once constrained by how much data we could consume or produce. According to Domo鈥檚 Data Never Sleeps 8.0 report, it is estimated that every minute around 350k stories and 150k photos are posted on Instagram and Facebook. Moreover, Zoom hosts around 208,333 meeting participants in…

  A team of researchers from Khalifa University has developed a portable Covid-19 testing kit, no larger than your average smartphone. The new kit is both portable and can deliver the results in 45 minutes only. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CF113qSpLb4/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet Dr. Anas Alazzam, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and member of the System-on-Chip Lab (SoCL) is the primary investigator for the project with Dr. Habiba AlSafar, Director of the Khalifa University Center for Biotechnology and Associate Professor of Genetics and Molecular Biology, as co-principal investigator. The research team includes the Postdoctoral Researchers Dr. Waqas Waheed, and Dr. Sueda Saylan, along with Research Associate…

A team from Khalifa University has developed a new type of flexible memristor device, called 鈥楴euroMem鈥�, that will extend the application of memristors to flexible electronic technologies like wearable smart devices.   Read Arabic story here.   Computer scientists have long been inspired by the human brain, aiming to design a computer that is able to store, retrieve and process information just as efficiently as the brain. The memristor, short for memory resistor, could be the key to designing such a computer as it processes information in a way that mimics the brain鈥檚 synapses and enables efficient neural network architecture.聽…

Vital signs such as blood pressure and heart rate could soon be monitored wirelessly via radar following pioneering work by UAE researchers. A team at Khalifa University believe the technology could be used in hospitals and from homes, reducing the need for doctors' house visits and avoiding the need for patients to be physically hooked up to machines. Read full story at The National here:聽 https://www.thenational.ae/uae/health/pioneering-uae-research-monitors-vital-signs-by-radar-1.1002005

A team of researchers from Khalifa University鈥檚 System-on-Chip Lab (SoCL) have contributed to the advancement of energy-efficient wearable electronic devices with extended battery life, and documented their contributions in a new book on power management integrated circuits for wearables. The co-authors include KU鈥檚 Dr. Dima Kilani, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Baker Mohammad, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and SoCL Director, and Dr. Hani Saleh, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The book, titled 鈥淧ower Management for Wearable Electronic Devices,鈥� is published by Springer, one of the leading international science and technology publishers. As Khalifa University celebrates…

Khalifa University's System on Chip Lab (SoCL) held its first Open House on Wednesday, 20 November at the Main Campus. The SoCL Open House provided a platform for SoCL faculty, researchers, and students to highlight how they are advancing microsystems research using SoCL鈥檚 advanced facilities. The SoCL is the only research lab in UAE with a comprehensive range of expertise in analog, digital, and RF that can deliver integrated system-on-chip and electronics circuits and system solutions for various applications targeting near-market research. The lab Director Dr. Baker Mohammad, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, opened the event with an…

PhD student Lilas Alrahis won Best Paper Award for her paper titled 鈥淪canSAT: Unlocking Obfuscated Scan Chains,鈥� at the Applied Research Competition - MENA Region, one of nine competitions held in association with the New York University鈥檚 Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) 2019, which took place from 6-8 November 2019. Her winning paper addresses a key security issue arising out of the shifting microelectronics supply chain聽landscape. 鈥淭he dramatic increase in fabrication costs of Integrated Circuits (ICs) has led to the globalization of the IC supply chain, raising concerns regarding IC piracy, reverse engineering, and hardware Trojan insertion. ICs are the…

Researchers at Khalifa University鈥檚 System-on-Chip Center file patent for a novel low-cost glucose sensor that can measure glucose at neutral pH conditions, resulting in a lower-cost and more compact device The World Health Organization estimates that over 382 million people worldwide have diabetes, a metabolic disorder affecting blood sugar levels. The underlying cause of diabetes varies by type but each type can lead to excess sugar in the blood, which could cause serious health problems. For all patients, blood sugar monitoring plays a role in treatment. A research group led by Dr. Heba Abunahla, Postdoctoral Fellow of Electrical Computer Engineering…

Special Sessions to Examine Areas of Future Research for Co-Funding with Government Khalifa University will be hosting the three-day Mubadala-SRC Forum on artificial Intelligence聽(AI) in Abu Dhabi in order to define future research and development programs of AI hardware systems. To be held from 15-16 April 2019 at the Khalifa University Main Campus, the forum will have representations from regional and international technology leaders such as Intel, GlobalFoundries, IBM, NXP, Arm, Synopsys, Siemens, Texas Instruments, IMEC, and LETI, as well as Mubadala Investment Company and SRC. Keynotes and panel discussions will focus on identifying major challenges, opportunities, and the most…

Focus on Research into Artificial Intelligence to Develop Futuristic Devices that Bring Long-Term Benefits to UAE Cutting-edge research advances in robotics and drones-related technologies are being showcased by Khalifa University at the 14th edition of the International Defense Exhibition (IDEX 2019) and the fifth edition of Naval Defense Exhibition (NAVDEX 2019) in Abu Dhabi. Organized by (ADNEC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense and UAE Armed Forces, the twin events themed 鈥楧efense for Security and Safety鈥� run from 17-21 February 2019 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC). One of the projects on display at Khalifa University stand…