The work deals with the design and optimization of amplifiers in CMOS technology with low supply voltage and low power consumption. The main aim is to design an amplifier to amplify the biological signal. The first part is a brief introduction to the theory of biological signals. The work also contains a brief description of the biological signal processing methods and their properties. The important part is the description of the methods to reduce the supply voltage of the amplifier. The practical part of this thesis focuses on the design amplifiers with low supply voltage and low power consumption. All active elements and application examples have been verified by PSpice simulator using the 0.18 µm TSMC CMOS parameters. Simulated plots are included in this thesis to illustrate behavior of structures.

This thesis describes designing of a wireless system which allows to transmit measured data of sensors made of smart concrete. Measured data are transmitted from measuring points to the collecting unit, which stores them, and pass them to the server which is connected in the Internet network. The design of the system is focused to achieve low power consumption of all used components to provide the longest possible operation time, when using primary lithium cell. The design should be also able to provide possibility of easy modification of the measuring points.

This thesis describes energy consumption and power supplying low-power IoT devices. There is general analysis of current consumption and selecting suitable primary battery cell depends of behavior battery type. The next point is analysis of low-power and high-effectivity DC/DC convertor’s feature. The second part contains available solutions for energy monitoring and current measurement. This thesis also contains design of device for measure these energy consumption, with user application, which interprets measured data.

<p>Implantable wireless devices are used to treat a variety of diseases that are not able to be treated with pharmaceuticals or traditional surgery, These implantable devices have use in the treatment of neurological disorders like epilepsy, optical disorders such as glaucoma, or injury related issues such as targeted muscle reinnervation. These devices can rely upon harvesting power from an inductive wireless power source and batteries. Improvements to how well the devices utilize this power directly increase the efficacy of the device operation as well as the device's lifetime, reducing the need for future surgeries or implantations. </p> <p> I have designed an improvement to cavity resonator based wireless power by designing a dynamic impedance matching implantable power supply, capable of tracking with device motion throughout a changing magnetic field and tracking with changing powering frequencies. This cavity resonator based system presents further challenges practically in the turn-on cycle of the improved device. </p> <p> I further design a coil-to-coil based wireless power system, capable of dynamically impedance matching a high quality factor coil to optimize power transfer during steady state, while also reducing turn-on transient power required in dynamic systems by utilizing a second low quality factor coil. This second coil has a broadband response and is capable of turning on at lower powers than that of the high quality factor coil. The low quality factor coil powers the circuitry that dynamically matches the impedance of the high quality factor coil, allowing for low power turn on while maintaining high power transfer at all operating frequencies to the implantable device. </p> <p> Finally, an integrated circuit is designed, fabricated, and tested that is capable of smoothly providing regulated DC power to the implantable device by stepping up from wireless power to a reasonable voltage level or stepping down from a battery to a reasonable voltage level for the device. The chip is fabricated in 0.18um CMOS process and is capable of providing power to the "Bionode" implantable device. </p>

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New innovations, technologies, ideas and businesses are driving the realisation of the Internet of Things (IoT) vision. As with many other fields in technology comes competing protocols and standards, ranging from modulation schema used for transmitting data to security standards used to ensure safe operation and the privacy needs for all involved entities. This thesis looks into one of the competing modulation schema and network protocols for IoT applications: the LoRaWAN protocol. The main contribution of this thesis is a datadriven empirical study that helps verify theoretically obtained results from other authors. Our results also suggest that as long as other signals on the same frequency band uses different modulation techniques (or just other parameters for the same modulation technique), then only the signal to noise ratio is affected without introducing collisions. This affects the scalability and overall practical distance covered by a LoRaWAN. Our general conclusion is that the LoRaWAN as a technology/protocol has its disadvantages, mainly how heavily different traffic profiles may affect the scalability of it and a general lack of hard quality of service guarantees.

Les réseaux de capteurs sans fil (aussi appelés LLNs en anglais) sont des réseaux contraints composés de nœuds ayant de faibles ressources (mémoire, CPU, batterie). Ils sont de nature très hétérogène et utilisés dans des contextes variés comme la domotique ou les villes intelligentes. Pour se connecter nativement à l’Internet, un LLN utilise une passerelle, qui a une vue précise du trafic transitant entre Internet et le LLN du fait de sa position. Le but de cette thèse est d’exposer comment des fonctionnalités peuvent être ajoutées à une passerelle d’un LLN dans le but d’optimiser l’utilisation des ressources limitées des nœuds contraints et d’améliorer la connaissance de leur état de fonctionnement. La première contribution est un estimateur non intrusif utilisant le trafic passant par la passerelle pour inférer l’utilisation de la radio des nœuds contraints. La seconde contribution adapte la durée de vie d’informations mises en cache (afin d’utiliser les ressources en cache au lieu de solliciter le réseau) en fonction du compromis entre le coût et l’efficacité. Enfin, la troisième contribution est Makesense, un framework permettant de documenter, d’exécuter et d’analyser une expérience pour réseaux de capteurs sans fil de façon reproductible à partir d’une description unique. / Low-Power and Lossy Network (LLN)s are constrained networks composed by nodes with little resources (memory, CPU, battery). Those networks are typically used to provide real-time measurement of their environment in various contexts such as home automation or smart cities. LLNs connect to other networks by using a gateway that can host various enhancing features due to its key location between constrained and unconstrained devices. This thesis shows three contributions aiming to improve the reliability and performance of a LLN by using its gateway. The first contribution introduce a non-intrusive estimator of a node radio usage by observing its network traffic passing through the gateway. The second contribution offers to determine the validity time of an information within a cache placed at the gateway to reduce the load on LLNs nodes by doing a trade-off between energy cost and efficiency. Finally, we present Makesense, an open source framework for reproducible experiments that can document, execute and analyze a complete LLN experiment on simulation or real nodes from a unique description.

La récupération d'énergie ambiante permet d’alimenter de manière autonome des systèmes de petite taille tels que des neouds de capteurs ou des objets connectés à internet (IoT) en remplacement des batteries. Les sources d’énergie ambiante sont par exemple, l’énergie solaire, le gradient thermique, les forces mécaniques, le rayonnement électromagnétique et la pile microbienne. Les matériaux piézoélectriques permettent de valoriser électriquement l’énergie mécanique de vibration en la convertissant directement en énergie électrique. Les niveaux de puissance assez faible (de quelques μW au mW) ont amené à développer des interfaces électriques de récupération afin d’extraire le maximum d'énergie en améliorant le couplage électromécanique. Dans ce travail, nous nous intéressons à l’amélioration de dispositif de récupération d’énergie. Deux aspects sont abordés : dans un premier temps l’étude d’un commutateur hybride synchrone électrique-mécanique est faite pour remplacer le transistor MOSFET couramment utilisé, afin de réduire sa consommation d’énergie ; dans un deuxième temps, un travail est mené sur une nouvelle structure mécanique à base de poutres reliées entre elle par des forces de répulsion magnétique. La structure obtenue par cet ensemble de poutres et de type non-linéaire à plusieurs degrés de liberté (MDOF) ce qui permet augmenter la bande passante. / The future trend of Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing energy harvesting in to the core technique due to its requirement of self-power supplying. For best customer interface and eco-friendly issues, additional sensing systems are to be designed small, wireless and self-powering. Energy harvesting provides a way to realize the wireless self-powered system, it enables the device itself to obtain its own energy from their environment. Solar energy, thermal gradient, mechanical forces, are some commonly seen methods to obtain energy from the environment. The piezoelectric energy harvester is chosen to harvest vibrational energy in this study. In this work, a simple model of the original electrical smart switch driven under ultra-low power is proposed. By using the miniature device to drive the smart switch, the efficiency when low power is provided was examined. To construct an energy harvesting system in a more complete aspect, two newly proposed methods are as below: First, the hybrid-electrical-mechanical switches were utilized to replace the commonly seen electrical smart switches, to reduce its energy consumption such as threshold loss. Secondly, we designed a new mechanical structure for the cantilever array by connecting the beams using magnetic repelling force. In this way, the beams within the array were connected physically, forming a nonlinear multi-degree of freedom (MDOF) -like result.

Ces travaux s'inscrivent dans le contexte de la gestion de l'énergie électrique dans les applications domestiques 230V - 50Hz. Le niveau de puissance visé se situe aux environs de la centaine de watts, et les structures de conversion utilisent des interrupteurs bidirectionnels bicommandables réalisés aujourd'hui à l'aide d'associations anti-série de composants de type MOS. Malgré les améliorations apportées par certains de ces dispositifs, leur coût de fabrication reste encore élevé et limite leur plus large diffusion sur ce marché partagé avec le triac à ce jour. Nous proposons une architecture de structure bipolaire bidirectionnelle en courant et symétrique en tension appelée BipAC. Le BipAC est une structure verticale bidirectionnelle, contrôlable à la fermeture et à l'ouverture, réalisable sur substrat N (BipAC PNP) ou P (BipAC NPN). Sa faible chute de tension à l'état passant et sa commande ON/OFF avec une seule électrode de référence la rendent intéressante pour des applications spécifiques à faible niveau de courant (<1A). L'étude de la structure BipAC s'appuie sur des simulations physiques 2D effectuées à l'aide du logiciel SentaurusTM. Afin d'améliorer le gain en courant de la structure BipAC initiale, une nouvelle version du BipAC a été proposée et validée par des simulations physiques 2D (de type process et électrique). Ensuite, des masques sont conçus sous le logiciel CadenceTM. La structure initiale est réalisée sur les deux types de substrat et pour deux épaisseurs différentes de chaque type. La fonctionnalité du BipAC est validée par des caractérisations électriques. / This thesis work deals with the design of an AC switch structure for specific ac mains applications 230V - 50 Hz. The targeted power level is about a hundred watts, and the currently used converter circuits make use of bidirectional switches that are realized using anti-series connected MOS transistors. Despite the improvements in performance provided by some of these structures, their fabrication cost is still high and limits their widespread diffusion in a market shared with the triac. We propose a current and voltage bidirectional bipolar device called a BipAC. It can be realized in an N-substrate (PNP BipAC) or a P-substrate (NPN BipAC). It can be controlled both to turn-on and turn-off with respect to a single reference electrode. It exhibits a very low on-state voltage that makes it attractive for specific mains applications with low load current (< 1A rms). The study of the BipAC structure is carried-out using 2D SentaurusTM physical simulations. In order to improve the current gain of the initial BipAC structure, a new version of the BipAC structure is proposed and its operating modes validated using 2D physical simulations (both process and electrical). Masks were then designed under CadenceTM software. The initial BipAC structure is realized on N and P substrates and for two different thicknesses. The operating modes of the monolithic bidirectional BipAC switch were validated through electrical characterizations.

La surveillance de santé structurelle, SHM en anglais, est un domaine en plein essor avec l'arrivée massive des composites dans les transports. Ce matériau plus léger que les alliages traditionnels investit les avions, les trains, les bateaux ou les voitures. Permettant des économies substantielles d'énergie, il présente néanmoins l'inconvénient de pouvoir développer des défauts internes invisibles par une inspection visuelle. Dès lors leur surveillance est primordiale. Les pales d'avions turbopropulseurs (A400M, ATR, etc…) répondent aux mêmes exigences. Etre capable de déterminer un endommagement de la structure par le biais de capteur est tout l'enjeu des recherches. Cet objectif implique deux points : étudier le comportement de la pale et y développer un système embarqué pour obtenir des données et/ou surveiller. Dans ce contexte, ce travail de recherche a pour objectif de mener les premières études en déterminant une premier modèle comportementale des pales; en développant un premier microsystème enregistreur de paramètres de pales; en élaborant un premier algorithme de surveillance de la pale et d'événements endommageant (impacts, survitesses, survibrations) / The structural health monitoring, or SHM, represents today a key challenge today, with a massive use of composites in the field of transport. This material, lighter than a conventional alloy, is very attractive for airplanes, trains, boats or cars manufacturing. This allows significant energy savings, but can hide internal defects invisible from the outside. At this point, dedicated supervision is essential. Blades of turboprop plane (A400M, ATR, etc.) are in face of the same problems. Determination of structural defects by the use of sensors is the key solution for the research in this field. Thus, this problem has two solutions: studying blade performances and designing an embedded system able to record data and/or monitoring the structural health. The research studies presented in this thesis represent the first results of damaged blade performances. It leads to the design of a first embedded data recorder of blade parameters and computes a first dedicated algorithm for monitoring the blade structural health and damaging events (shocks, over-speeds, over-vibrations)