Amirtharajah, Rajeevan

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Journal Publications

  • N. Shrake, R. Amirtharajah, C. Brenneman, R. Boulton, and A. Knoesen. “In-line Measurement of Color and Total Phenolics During Red Wine Fermentations Using a Light-Emitting Diode Sensor,” American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 65(4): 463-470.
  • F. Maker, R. Amirtharajah, and V. Akella, “Runtime Adaptation of Applications Using Design of Experiments: A Smartphone-Based Case Study,” IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, Vol. 6, Number 2, June 2014, pp. 25-8.
  • T. Zink, F. Maker, R. Geyer, R. Amirtharajah, and V. Akella, “Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Smartphone Reuse: Repurposing vs. Refurbishment,” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Vol. 19, Number 5, May 2014, pp. 1099-1109.
  • K. Shaik, T. Kleeburg, and R. Amirtharajah, “Ultralow-Power Optical CDR for Integrated Photovoltaic Energy-Harvesting Sensors,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – II: Express Briefs, Vol. 60, No. 12, Dec. 2013, pp. 832-6.
  • F. Maker, R. Amirtharajah, and V. Akella, “MELOADES: Methodology for Long-Term Online Adaptation Embedded Software for Heterogeneous Devices,” Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol. 59, Issue 8, September 2013, pp. 643-55.
  • E. Fong, N. Guilar, T. Kleeburg, H. Pham, D. Yankelevich, and R. Amirtharajah, “Integrated Energy-Harvesting Photodiodes With Diffractive Storage Capacitance,” IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 21, No. 3, March 2013, pp. 486-97.
  • J. Wenck, J. Collier, J. Siebert, and R. Amirtharajah, “Scaling Self-Timed Systems Powered by Mechanical Vibration Energy Harvesting,” ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Vol. 6, No. 2, Article 5, June 2010, pp. 5:1-24.
  • L. Zhou, S. Djordjevic, R. Proietti, D. Ding, S. Yoo, R. Amirtharajah, and V. Akella, “Design and Evaluation of an Arbitration-Free Passive Optical Crossbar for On-Chip Interconnection Networks,” Applied Physics A, Vol. 95, No. 4, June 2009, pp. 1111-8.
  • N. Guilar, A. Chen, T. Kleeburg, D. Yankelevich, and R. Amirtharajah, “Integrated Solar Energy
    Harvesting and Storage,” IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 17, No. 5, May 2009, pp. 627-37.
  • N. Guilar, R. Amirtharajah and P. Hurst, “A Full-Wave Rectifier With Integrated Peak Selection for Multiple Electrode Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 44, No. 1, Jan. 2009, pp. 240-6.
  • R. Amirtharajah, A. Chen, J. Loo and N. Guilar,“Nanomaterial Resistive Sensors: Noise, Power, and Circuit Interfaces,” International Journal of Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, Nos. 4/5, 2008, pp. 497-518.
  • J. Oliver, R. Amirtharajah, V. Akella, R. Geyer, and F. Chong,“Life Cycle Aware Computing: Reusing Silicon Technology,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 40, No. 12, Dec. 2007, pp. 56-61.
  • R. Rao, J. Wenck, D. Franklin, R. Amirtharajah, and V. Akella, “Exploiting Non-Uniform Memory Access Patterns Through Bitline Segmentation,” ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2006, [online], available: http://sigmicro-online.org/papers24_1/6.pdf.
  • R. Amirtharajah, J. Collier, J. Siebert, B. Zhou, and A. Chandrakasan, “DSPs for Energy Harvesting Sensors: Applications and Architectures,” IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 3, July-Sep. 2005, pp. 72-9.
  • D. D. Thaker, R. Amirtharajah, F. Impens, I. L. Chuang, and F. T. Chong, “Recursive TMR: Scaling Fault Tolerance in the Nanoscale Era,” IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. 22, Issue 4, July-Aug. 2005, pp. 298-305.
  • R. Amirtharajah and A. Chandrakasan, “A Micropower Programmable DSP Using Approximate Signal Processing Based on Distributed Arithmetic,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 39, No. 2, Feb. 2004, pp. 337-47.
  • 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, Vol. 51, No. 12, Dec. 2003, pp. 2597-2603.
  • 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 Publications

  • N. Ellis and R. Amirtharajah, “A Resonant Cockcroft-Walton Switched-Capacitor Converter Achieving Full ZCS and >10 kW/in.3 Power Density,” in 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE 2019), Sep. 2019, to appear.
  • N. Martin and R. Amirtharajah, “Improving SNDR and SFDR in Capacitive DACs Using Match Enhancement,” 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2019), Sapporo, Japan, 2019, pp. 1-5.
  • S. Nguyen, K. Yuk, R. Amirtharajah and G. R. Branner, “Radiation Patterns of an RF Energy Harvesting Necklace on Human Body Phantom,” 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boston, MA, 2018, pp. 2551-2552.
  • S. Nguyen and R. Amirtharajah, “A Hybrid RF and Vibration Energy Harvester for Wearable Devices,” 2018 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2018), San Antonio, TX, 2018, pp. 1060-1064.
  • S. Nguyen, K. Yuk and R. Amirtharajah, “Pulse Skipping Modulation Method for Multiple Input Buck Boost Converter,” 2018 IEEE 19th Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON 2018), Sand Key, FL, 2018, pp. 1-4.
  • J. Segovia-Fernandez, S. Sonmezoglu, S. Block, Y. Kusano, J. Tsai, R. Amirtharajah, and D. Horsley, “Monolithic Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride MEMS-CMOS Microphone,” 2017 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS 2017), Kaohsiung, 2017, pp. 414-417.
  • S. Sonmezoglu, J. Segovia-Fernandez, S. Block, Y. Kusano, J. Tsai, R. Amirtharajah, and D. Horsley, “Passive Signal Amplification via Series-Piezoelectric Read-Out,” 2017 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS 2017), Kaohsiung, 2017, pp. 155-158.
  • Y. Kusano, J. Segovia-Fernandez, S. Sonmezoglu, R. Amirtharajah, and D. Horsley, “Frequency Selective MEMS Microphone Based on a Bioinspired Spiral-Shaped Acoustic Resonator,” 2017 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS 2017), Kaohsiung, 2017, pp. 71-74.
  • S. Block, X. Jiang, B. Harris, C. Cui, J. Segovia-Fernandez, R. Amirtharajah, D. Horsley, H. Rashtian, and X. Liu, “A 170 nW CMOS Wake-Up Receiver with -60 dBm Sensitivity Using AlN High-Q Piezoelectric Resonators,” 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2017), Baltimore, MD, 2017, pp. 1-4.
  • S. Nguyen, N. Ellis, and R. Amirtharajah, “Powering Smart Jewelry Using an RF Energy Harvesting Necklace,” 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2016), San Francisco, CA, 2016, pp. 1-4.
  • O. Rozen, S. Block, X. Mo, W. Bland, P. Hurst, J. Tsai, M. Daneman, R. Amirtharajah, and D. Horsley, “Monolithic MEMS-CMOS Ultrasonic Rangefinder Based on Dual-Electrode PMUTs,” 2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2016), Shanghai, 2016, pp. 115-118.
  • A. Edgcomb, F. Vahid, R. Lysecky, A. Knoesen, R. Amirtharajah, and M.L. Dorf, “Student Performance Improvement Using Interactive Textbooks: A Three-University Cross-Semester Analysis,” Proceedings of 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2015, 16 pages.
  • H. Zhang, R. Amirtharajah, C. Nitta, M. Farrens, and V. Akella, “Burst Mode Processing: An Architectural Framework for Improving Performance in Future Chip Multiprocessors,” ACM Workshop on Managing Overprovisioned Systems (W-MOS 2014) at 19th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2014), 1 March 2014.
  • S. Hsu, E. Fong, V. Jain, T. Kleeburg, and R. Amirtharajah, “Switched-Capacitor Boost Converter Design and Modeling for Indoor Optical Energy Harvesting with Integrated Photodiodes,” ACM/IEEE 2013 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2013), September 2013, pp. 169-74.
  • F. Maker, R. Amirtharajah, and V. Akella, “Update Rate Tradeoffs for Improving Online Power Modeling in Smartphones,” ACM/IEEE 2013 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2013), September 2013, pp. 114-9.
  • C. Freed, R. Amirtharajah, R. Boulton, D. Block, C. Brenneman, and A. Knoesen, “Inline Dielectric Sensor for Real-Time Monitoring of Yeast Growth in White Wine Fermentation,” 64th American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV) National Conference, 24-28 June 2013.
  • N. Shrake, R. Amirtharajah, R. Boulton, C. Brenneman, and A. Knoesen, “Inline Multispectral Colorimeter for Real-Time Color and Total Phenolic Analysis During Red Wine Fermentations,” 64th American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV) National Conference, 24-28 June 2013.
  • S. Hsu, R. Amirtharajah, and A. Knoesen, “Lab and Team Project Development for Engineering Problem Solving using MATLAB, with Emphasis on Solar Power and Engineering for Sustainability,” 120th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE 2013), 23-26 June 2013, pp. 1-14.
  • P. Mejia, R. Amirtharajah, M. Farrens, and V. Akella, “Performance Evaluation of a Multicore System with Optically Connected Memory Modules,” ACM/IEEE 2010 International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS 2010), 3-6 May 2010, pp. 215-22.
  • T. Kleeburg, J. Loo, N. Guilar, E. Fong, and R. Amirtharajah, “Ultra-Low-Voltage Circuits for Sensor Applications Powered by
    Free-Space Optics,” 2010 IEEE Int’l. Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC 2010), 7-11 Feb. 2010, pp. 502-3, 503a.
  • M. Scott and R. Amirtharajah, “Pulse Width Modulation for Reduced Peak Power Full-Swing On-Chip Interconnect,” ACM/IEEE 2009 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2009), 19-21 August 2009, pp. 213-8.
  • R. Amirtharajah, J. Wenck, and N. Guilar “Energy Harvesting and Limits of Low Power Mixed-Signal Circuit Design,” IEEE 2009 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2009), 24-29 May 2009, pp. 1425-8.
  • N. Guilar, R. Amirtharajah, P. Hurst, and S. Lewis, “An Energy-Aware Multiple-Input Power Supply with Charge Recovery for Energy Harvesting Applications,” 2009 IEEE Int’l. Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC 2009), 8-12 Feb. 2009, pp. 298-9, 299a.
  • S. Yoo, V. Akella, R. Amirtharajah, B. Baas, K. Bergman, S. Fan, J. Harris, M. Lipson, D. Miller, and J. Shalf, “Balanced Computing with Nanophotonic Interconnects,” 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS 2008), 9-13 Nov. 2008, pp. 368-9.
  • A. Hadke, T. Benavides, R. Amirtharajah, M. Farrens, and V. Akella, “Design and Evaluation of an Optical CPU-DRAM Interconnect,” 2008 IEEE Int’l. Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 08), 12-5 Oct. 2008, pp. 492-7.
  • A. Hadke, T. Benavides, S. Yoo, R. Amirtharajah, and V. Akella, “OCDIMM: Scaling the DRAM Memory Wall Using WDM Based Optical Interconnects,” 16th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOTI 08), 26-8 Aug. 2008, pp. 57-63.
  • N. Guilar, E. Fong, T. Kleeburg, D. Yankelevich, and R. Amirtharajah, “Energy Harvesting Photodiodes with Integrated 2D Diffractive Storage Capacitance,” ACM/IEEE 2008 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2008), 11-3 Aug. 2008, pp. 63-8.
  • J. Oliver, R. Amirtharajah, V. Akella, and F. Chong, “Credit-Based Dynamic Reliability Management Using Online Wearout Detection,” Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF ’08), 5-7 May 2008, pp. 139-47.
  • N. Guilar, P. Hurst, R. Amirtharajah, D. Margolis, and D. Horsley, “Interface Circuits for Multiphase Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters,” 23rd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 08), 24-8 Feb. 2008, pp. 639-44.
  • N. Guilar, R. Amirtharajah, and P. Hurst, “A Full-Wave Rectifier for Interfacing with Multi-Phase Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters,” 2008 IEEE Int’l. Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC 2008), 3-7 Feb. 2008, pp. 302-3, 615.
  • R. Geyer, J. Oliver, R. Amirtharajah, V. Akella, and F. T. Chong, “Microchip Reuse: Environmental Rationale and Design Implications,” 3rd International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM 2007), 27-29 August 2007.
  • J. Wenck, J. Collier, J. Siebert, and R. Amirtharajah, “AC Power Supply Circuits for Energy Harvesting,” 2007 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI 2007), 14-16 June 2007, pp. 92-3.
  • N. Guilar, P. Hurst, and R. Amirtharajah, “Analysis of DC-DC Conversion for Energy Harvesting Systems Using a Mixed-Signal Sliding-Mode Controller,” 38th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC 07), 17-21 June 2007, pp. 2620-5.
  • L. Guo, M. Scott, and R. Amirtharajah, “An Energy Scalable Functional Unit for Sensor Signal Processing,” IEEE 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 15-20 April 2007, Vol. II, pp. 73-6.
  • R. Rao, J. Wenck, D. Franklin, R. Amirtharajah, and V. Akella, “Segmented Bitline Cache: Exploiting Non-Uniform Memory Access Patterns,” 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006), 18-21 December 2006, pp. 123-34.
  • J. Oliver, R. Amirtharajah, R. Geyer and F. T. Chong, “Life-Cycle Aware Computer Architecture: Reusing Silicon in the Technology Food Chain,” ACM 12th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2006) Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI-4), 24-26 October 2006.
  • N. Guilar, A. Chen, T. Kleeburg, and R. Amirtharajah, “Integrated Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage,” ACM/IEEE 2006 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2006), 4-6 October 2006, pp. 20-4.
  • L. Guo, M. Scott, and R. Amirtharajah, “An Energy Scalable Computational Array for Sensor Signal Processing,” IEEE 2006 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 10-13 September 2006, pp. 317-20.
  • R. Amirtharajah, J. Collier, J. Siebert, J. Wenck, and B. Zhou, “Circuits for Energy Harvesting Sensor Signal Processing” (invited) 2006 43rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 24-28 July 2006, pp. 639-44.
  • R. Amirtharajah, “An Energy Scalable Computational Array for Sensor Signal Processing” (invited) 2006 ISSCC Special Topic Session on Power-Aware Signal Processing, 5 February 2006.
  • R. Rao, J. Wenck, D. Franklin, R. Amirtharajah, and V. Akella, “Exploiting Non-Uniform Memory Access Patterns Through Bitline Segmentation,” 4th Workshop on Memory Performance Issues (WMPI-2006), 11 February, 2006.
  • R. Amirtharajah, A. Chen, D. Thaker, and F. T. Chong, “Circuit Interfaces and Optimization for Resistive Nanosensors,” (invited) Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 6008: Nanosensing: Materials and Devices II, 23-26 October 2005, pp. 60080J1-15.
  • J. Siebert, J. Collier, and R. Amirtharajah, “Self-Timed Circuits for Energy Harvesting AC Power Supplies,” ACM/IEEE 2005 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2005), August 2005, pp. 315-8.
  • R. Amirtharajah, “Micropower ICs for Energy Scavenging and Sensor Signal Processing,” (invited) IEEE 2005 Vail Computer Elements Workshop, 26-29 June 2005.
  • D. D. Thaker, A. Chen, R. Amirtharajah, and F. T. Chong, “On Designing Self-Calibrating Nanoscale Sensors that Adaptively Invest Power for Accuracy,” Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Design and Test of Defect-Tolerant Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH’05), May 2005, pp. 4.9-4.17.
  • D. D. Thaker, F. Impens, I. L. Chuang, R. Amirtharajah, and F. T. Chong, “On Using Recursive TMR as a Soft Error Mitigation Technique,” 2005 Workshop on the System Effects of Logic Soft Errors (SELSE-1), 5-6 April 2005.
  • 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, 8-13 June 2003, vol. 2, pp. 1163-6.
  • 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.