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C. Lu, B. E. Boser, and M. Lemkin, “A monolithic surface micromachined accelerometer with digital output”, in ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 160–161, Feb. 1995.
B. E. Boser and R. T. Howe, “Surface Micromachined Accelerometers”, in CICC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 337–344, May 1995. pdf
C. Lu, B. E. Boser, and M. Lemkin, “A monolithic surface micromachined accelerometer with digital output”, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-30, pp. 1367–1373, December 1995. pdf
B. E. Boser and R. T. Howe, “Surface Micromachined Accelerometers”, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-31, pp. 366–375, March 1996. pdf
M. A. Lemkin and B. E. Boser, “A Micromachined Fully Differential Lateral Accelerometer”, in CICC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 315–318, May 1996. pdf
B. E. Boser and K. W. Markus, “Design of Integrated MEMs,” in Emerging Technologies: Designing Low Power Digital Systems, R. Cavin and W. Liu, eds., pp. 207–232, IEEE Press, May 1996. pdf
M. A. Lemkin, B. E. Boser, and D. M. Auslander, “A Fully Differential Lateral SD Accelerometer with Drift Cancellation Circuitry”, in Proceedings IEEE Solid-State and Actuator Workshop, pp. 90–93, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 1996.
B. E. Boser, “Surface Micromachining–An IC-Compatible Sensor Technology”, in Proceedings HOTCHIPS-VIII, Stanford, August 1996. pdf
Boser, B.E.; Markus, K.W., "Design of integrated MEMs," Designing Low Power Digital Systems, Emerging Technologies (1996) , 1996, Pages: 207 - 232. pdfR. T. Howe, B. E. Boser, and A. P. Pisano, “Polysilicon integrated microsystems: technologies and applications,” Sensors and Actuators, vol. A-56, pp. 167–177, 1996.
M. A. Lemkin, M. A. Ortiz, N. Wongkomet, B. E. Boser, and J. H. Smith, “A 3-axis surface micromachined SD accelerometer,” in ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 202–203, Feb. 1997. pdf
B. E. Boser, “Electronics for micromachined inertial sensors,” in Transducers Dig. of Tech. Papers, pp. 1169-1172, June 1997. article, slides
M. A. Lemkin, B. E. Boser, D. Auslander, and J. H. Smith, “A 3-axis force balanced accelerometer using a single proof-mass,” in Transducers Dig. of Tech. Papers, pp. 1185-1188, June 1997. pdf
B. E. Boser, “Capacitive interfaces for monolithic integrated sensors,” in RF Analog-to-Digital Converters; Sensor and Actuator Interfaces; Low-Noise Oscillators, PLLs and Synthesizers, R. J. van de Plassche, J. H. Huijsing, W. M.C. Sansen (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, November 1997. chapter, slides
N. Wongkomet, D. A. Horsley, and B. E. Boser, “A Capacitive Position Sensing Circuit for Microactuators,” in Proceedings Eurosensors XII, N. M. White (editor), Southampton, UK, pp. 399-402. September 1998.
N. Wongkomet, D. A. Horsley, and B. E. Boser, “Correlated Double Sampling in Capacitive Positin Sensing Circuits for Micromachined Applications,” in Proceedings IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 723-726. November 1998. pdf
J. J. Allen, R. D. Kinney, J. Sarsfield, M. R. Daily, J. R. Ellis, J. H. Smith, S. Montague, R. T. Howe, B. E. Boser, R. Horowitz, A. P. Pisano, M .A. Lemkin, W. A. Clark, and T. Juneau, "Integrated Micro-Electro-Mechanical Sensor Development for Inertial Applications," IEEE Aearospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, vol 13, pp. 36-40, November 1998. pdf, pdf
M. Lemkin and B. E. Boser, “A Three-Axis Micromachined Accelerometer with a CMOS Position-Sense Interface and Digital Offset-Trim Electronics,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-34, pp. 456-468, April 1999. pdf
J. I. Seeger and B. E. Boser, “Dynamics and Control of Parallel-Plate Actuators Beyond the Electrostatic Instability,” in Transducers Dig. of Tech. Papers, pp. 474-477, June 1999. pdf
J. I. Seeger, X. Jiang, M. Kraft, and B. E. Boser, “Sense Finger Dynamics in a SD Force-Feedback Gyroscope,” in Proceedings Solid-State and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 2000. pdf
X. Jiang, J. I. Seeger, M. Kraft, and B. E. Boser, “A Monolithic Surface Micromachined Z-Axis Gyroscope with Digital Output,” in Symp. on VLSI Circuits Dig. of Tech. Papers, June 2000. pdf
L. Doherty, B. A. Warneke, B. E. Boser, and K. S. J. Pister, "Energy and Performance Considerations for Smart Dust," International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2001. pdf
J. I. Seeger, X. Jiang, M. Kraft, and B. E. Boser, “Parallel-Plate Driven Oscillations and Resonant Pull-In,” in Proceedings Solid-State and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 2002, pp. 313-316. pdf
X. Jiang, F. Wang, M. Kraft, and B. E. Boser, “An Integrated surface micromachined capacitive leteral accelerometer with 2mG/rt-Hz Resolution,” in Proceedings Solid-State and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 2002. pdf
X. Jiang, S. A. Bhave, J. I. Seeger, R. T. Howe, B. E. Boser, and J. Yasaitis, "SD Capacitive Interface for a Vertically Driven X&Y-Axis Rate Gyroscope," Proc. of the 28th European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Florence, Italy, Sept. 24-26, 2002, pp. 639-642. pdf
B. A. Warneke, M. D. Scott, B. S. Leibowitz, L. Zhou, C. L. Bellew, J. A. Chediak, J. M. Kahn, B. E. Boser, and K. S. J. Pister, "An autonomous 16mm3 solar-powered node for distributed wireless sensor networks," Proc. IEEE Sensors 2002, pp. 1510-15. pdf
Cagdaser B, Leibowitz BS, Last M, Ramanathan K, Boser BE, Pister KSJ. Pointing error correction for MEMS laser communication system. [Conference Paper] Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Automation, Control, and Information Technology. ACTA Press. 2002, pp.136-40. Anaheim, CA, USA.
S. A. Bhave, J. I. Seeger, X. Jiang, B. E. Boser, R. T. Howe, and J. Yasaitis, "An integrated, vertical-drive, in-plane-sense microgyroscope," TRANSDUCERS, 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, 2003, Volume: I, pp. 171-174. pdf
J. I. Seeger and B. E. Boser, "Negative capacitance control for gap-closing electrostatic actuators," TRANSDUCERS, 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, 2003, Volume: I, pp. 484-7. pdf
J. Yasaitis et al, "A modular process for integrating thick polysilicon MEMS devices with sub-micron CMOS", in Proceedings of SPIE Vol.4979, Micromachining and Microfabrication Process Technology VII, edited by John A. Yasaitis, Mary Ann Perez-Maher, Jean Michel Karam, (SPIE, Bellingjam, WA, 2003). pdf
B. E. Boser, "Capacitive Evaluation Circuits," in Sensors for Automotive Technology, J. Marek, H.-P. Trah, Y. Suzuki, I. Yokomori, eds., Wiley-VCH, 2003, pp. 237-255.
J. I. Seeger and B. E. Boser, "Charge Control of Parallel-Plate, Electrostatic Actuators and the Tip-In Instability," IEEE J. of Microelectromechanical Systems, Oct. 2003, pp. 656-671. pdf
K. E. Wojciechowski, B. E. Boser, A. P. Pisano, "A MEMS Resonant Strain Sensor Operated in Air," Proc. 17th International IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Conference (MEMS 2004), Maastricht, The Netherlands, January 2004, pp. 841-845. pdf
V. P. Petkov and B. E. Boser, "A fourth-order sigma-delta interface for micromachined inertial sensors," Digest ISSCC Feb. 2004.
B. E. Boser, "Autonomous Sensors" in Analog Circuit Design: Sensor and Actuator Interface Electronics, Integrated High-Voltage Electronics and Power Management, Low-Power and High-Resolution ADC's, J. H. Huijsing, M. Steyaert, A. van Roermund, Eds., Springer, Hamburg, 2004, ISBN: 1-4020-2786-9.
B. Cagdaser, A. Jog, M. Last, B. S. Leibowitz, L. Zhou, E. Shelton, K. S. J. Pister, and B. E. Boser, “Capacitive sense feedback control for MEMS beam steering mirrors,” in Proceedings Solid-State and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 2004. pdfV. P. Petkov and B. E. Boser, "Capacitive interfaces for MEMS," in Enabling technology for MEMS and Nanodevices, Baltes, Brand, Fedder, Hierold, Korvink, Tabata, eds., Wiley-VCH, 2004, pp. 49-92.
Leibowitz BS, Boser BE, Pister KSJ. A 256-element CMOS imaging receiver for free-space optical communication. Proceedings of the IEEE 2004 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37571). IEEE. 2004, pp.303-6. Piscataway, NJ, USA.
Cagdaser, B. and Boser, B.E. Resonant drive for stabilizing parallel-plate actuators beyond the pull-in point. In Digest of Technical Papers TRANSDUCERS 2005. June 2005 Page(s):688 - 692 Vol. 1. pdf
Cagdaser, B. and Boser, B.E. Resonant
drive: sense and high voltage electrostatic drive using single MEMS capacitor
and low voltage electronics.
In digest MEMS 2005. 30 Jan.-3 Feb. 2005 Page(s):142 - 146.
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J. A. Heanue, B. E. Boser, and B. H. Hasegawa, “CMOS readout electronics for an emission-transmission medical imaging system”, in Proc. IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. and Med. Imag. Conf., Norfolk, VA, pp. 1762–1766, October 1994.
J. A. Heanue, B. E. Boser, and B. H. Hasegawa, “CMOS detector readout electronics for an emission-transmission medical imaging system”, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 42, pp. 1133–1138, August 1995.
C. D. Boles, B. E. Boser, B. H. Hasegawa, and J. A. Heanue, “A multi-mode digital detector readout for solid-state medical imaging detectors,” in Symp. on VLSI Circuits Dig. of Tech. Papers, pp. 35-36, June 1997. pdf
C. D. Boles, B. E. Boser, B. H. Hasegawa, and J. A. Heanue, “A multimode digital detector readout for solid-state medical imaging detectors,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-33, pp. 733-742, May 1998. pdf
Iwata, K.; Hasegawa, B.H.; Heanue, J.A.; Bennett, P.R.; Shah, K.S.; Boles, C.D.; Boser, B.E., "Improvements in CdZnTe detection system for combined X-ray CT and SPECT," Nuclear Science Symposium. Conference Record. 1998 IEEE , Volume: 2 , 8-14 Nov. 1998, pp. 747 -753. pdf
C. Fuller, J. Hamilton, H. Ackler, P. Krulevitch, P. Gascoyne, F. Becker, A. Eldredge, J. Yang and B. Boser, "Microfabricated Multi-Frequency Particle Impedance Characterization System," in Proceedings microTAS, Twente, May 2000. pdf
J. Yang, J. Vykoukal, J. Noshari, F. Becker, P. Gascoyne, P. Krulevitch, C. Fuller, H. Ackler, J. Hamilton, B. Boser, A. Eldredge, D. Hitchens, and C. Andrews, "Dielectrophoresis-Based Microfluidic Separation and Detection Systems," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pp. 1-12, 2000.
T. Aytur, P. Beatty, B. Boser, M. Anwar, and T. Ishikawa, “An Immunoassay Platform based on CMOS Hall Sensors,” in Proceedings Solid-State and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 2002, pp. 126-129. pdf
---"Microfabricated ac impedance sensor," US Patent 6,437,551, Aug. 20, 2002.
David Pescovitz, "Diagnosis On A Chip," Berkeley College of Engineering Labnotes, October 2003. html
L. Brown, "Beyond the Ivory Tower: Disease detection on a chip," Berkeley Science Review, issue 6, spring 2004, p. 32. pdf
T. S. Aytur, T. Ishikawa, and B. E. Boser, “A 2.2-mm^2 CMOS Bioassay Chip and Wireless Interface,” in Symp. on VLSI Circuits Dig. of Tech. Papers, June 2004. pdf
David Pescovitz, "Berkeley's new peace corps for technology", Forefront, fall 2004, p. 17. reference in html
B. E. Boser and B. A. Wooley: “Design of a CMOS Second-Order Sigma-Delta Modulator”, in ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 258–259, Feb. 1988.
B. E. Boser and B. A. Wooley: “Quantization Error Spectrum of Sigma-Delta Modulators”, Proc. 1988 Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, June 1988. pdf
B. E. Boser, K.-P. Karmann, H. Martin, and B. A. Wooley: “Simulating and Testing Oversampled Analog-to-Digital Converters”, IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, vol. CAD-7, pp. 668–674, June 1988. pdf
B. E. Boser and B. A. Wooley: “The Design of Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters”, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-23, pp. 1298–1308, December 1988. pdf
B. E. Boser: “Design and Implementation of Oversampled Analog-to-Digital Converters”, Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, October 1988.
B. E. Boser: “Design Considerations and Nonideal Effects in S-D Modulators”, Workshop on Oversampled Analog-to-Digital Conversion, EPFL Lausanne, June 1989.
A. R. Feldmann, B. E. Boser, and P. R. Gray, “A 13-Bit, 1.4-MS/s Sigma-Delta Modulator for RF Baseband Channel Applications,” in Proceedings Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 229-232, 1998. pdf
A. R. Feldmann, B. E. Boser, and P. R. Gray, “A 13-Bit, 1.4-MS/s Sigma-Delta Modulator for RF Baseband Channel Applications,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-33, pp. 1462-1469, October 1998. pdf
M. D. Scott, B. E. Boser, and K. S. J. Pister, "An Ultra-Low Power ADC for Distributed Sensor Networks," Proc. of the 28th European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Florence, Italy, Sept. 24-26, 2002, pp. 255-258. pdf
B. Murmann and B. E. Boser: “A 12b 75MS/s Pipelined ADC using Open-Loop Residue Amplification”, in ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 328-329, Feb. 2003. pdf, slides
M. D. Scott, B. E. Boser, and K. S. J. Pister, "An ultralow-energy ADC for Smart Dust," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-33, pp. 1123 -1129, July 2003. pdf
B. Murmann and B. E. Boser, "A 12b 75MS/s Pipelined ADC using Open-Loop Residue Amplification," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-33, pp. 2040-2050, December 2003. pdf
V. Petkov and B. E. Boser: “A fourth-order ΣΔ interface for micromachined inertial sensors”, in ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2004. pdf, slides
B. Murmann and B. E. Boser, "Digitally Assisted Analog Integrated Circuits," ACM Queue, vol. 1, pp. 64-71, March 2004.
B. Murmann and B. E. Boser, "Digitally Assisted Pipeline ADCs--Theory and Implementation," Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2004.
D. Young and B. E. Boser, “A Micromachined Variable Capacitor for Monolithic High-Q VCOs”, in Proceedings IEEE Solid-State and Actuator Workshop, pp. 86–89, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 1996.
D. J. Young and B. E. Boser, “A micromachine-based RF low-noise voltage-controlled oscillator,” in CICC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 431-434, May 1997. pdf
D. J. Young, V. Malba, J.-J. Ou, A. F. Bernhardt, and B. E. Boser, “Monolithic high-performance three-dimensional coil inductors for wireless communication application,” IEDM Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 67-70, December 1997. pdf
V. Malba, D. Young, J. J. Ou, A. F. Bernhardt, and B. E. Boser, "High-Performance RF Coil Inductors on Silicon," in Proceedings Electronic Components and Technology Conference, Seattle, pp. 1476, 1998. pdf
D. J. Young, V. Malba, J.-J. Ou, A. F. Bernhardt, and B. E. Boser, “A Low-Noise RF Voltage-Controlled Osciallator Using On-Chip High-Q Three-Dimensional Coil Inductor and Micromachined Variable Capacitor”, in Proceedings IEEE Solid-State and Actuator Workshop, pp. 128-131, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 1998. pdf
D. J. Young, J. L. Tham, and B. E. Boser, “A Micromachine-Based Low Phase-Noise GHz Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Wireless Communications,” in Transducers Dig. of Tech. Papers, pp. 1386-1389, June 1999. pdf
D. J. Young, B. E. Boser, V. Malba, and A. F. Bernhardt, "A micromachined RF low phase noise voltage-controlled oscillator for wireless communications," International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, 11(5), Sept. 2001, pp. 285-300. pdf
B. S. Leibowitz, B. E. Boser, and K. S. J. Pister, "CMOS 'smart pixel' for free-space optical communication," SPIE Int. Soce Opt. Eng. Proceedings, vol. 4306, 2001, pp. 308-18.
M. Last, B. S. Leibowitz, B. Cagdaser, A. Jog, L. Zhou, B. Boser, K. S. J. Pister: "Toward a Wireless Optical Communication Link between Two Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," ISCAS 2003. pdf
Y. LeCun, B. E. Boser, J. S. Denker, D. Henderson, R. Howard, W. Hubbard, and L. D. Jackel: “Handwritten Digit Recognition with a Back-Propagation Neural Network”, in D. S. Touretzky, editor, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 2, pp. 396–404, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1990.
Larry D. Jackel and B. E. Boser: “VLSI Implementation of Electronic Neural Networks: An Example in Character Recognition”, in Proceedings 1990 IEEE Inter. Conf. on Syst., Man, and Cyb., Nov. 1990.
B. E. Boser and E. Säckinger: “An Analog Neural Network Processor with Programmable Network Topology”, in ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 184–185, Feb. 1991.
B. E. Boser, E. Säckinger, J. Bromley, Y. LeCun, and L. D. Jackel: “An Analog Neural Network Processor and its Application to High-Speed Character Recognition”, in IJCNN Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 415–420, July 1991.
B. E. Boser, E. Säckinger, J. Bromley, Y. LeCun, and L. D. Jackel: “An Analog Neural Network Processor with Programmable Topology”, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-26, pp. 2017–2025, December 1991.
B. E. Boser, E. Säckinger, J. Bromley, Y. LeCun, and L. D. Jackel: “Hardware Requirements for Neural Network Pattern Classifiers: A Case Study and Implementation”, IEEE Micro, pp. 32–40, February 1992.
E. Säckinger, B. E. Boser, J. Bromley, Y. LeCun, and L. D. Jackel, “Application of the ANNA Neural Network Chip to High Speed Character Recognition”, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 498–505, May 1992.
I. Guyon, B. E. Boser, V. Vapnik, L. Bottou, and S. Solla, “Structural Risk Minimization for Character Recognition”, in Advances in Neural Information Processing, vol. 4, Morgan Kaufman, pp. 471–479, 1992.
E. Säckinger, B. E. Boser, and L. Jackel, “A Neurocomputer Board Based on the ANNA Neural Network Chip”, in Advances in Neural Information Processing, vol. 4, Morgan Kaufman, pp. 773–780, 1992.
B. E. Boser, I. Guyon, and V. Vapnik, “A Training Algorithm for Optimal Margin Classifiers”, Proceedings Fifth ACM Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, pp. 144–152, July 1992. pdf
B. E. Boser, E. Säckinger, J. Bromley, Y. LeCun, R. E. Howard, and L. D. Jackel, “Hardware Requirements for Neural Network Pattern Classifiers: a case study and implementation”, in From Pixels to Features III: Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, S. Impedevo and J. C. Simon (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., pp. 467–478, 1992.
I. Guyon, B. E. Boser, and V. Vapnik, “Automatic Capacity Tuning of Very Large VC-dimension Classifiers”, in Advances in Neural Information Processing, vol. 5, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 147–155, 1993.
B. E. Boser, “Operational Speed Improvement for Neural Network”, U.S. Patent 5,271,090, December 1993.
B. E. Boser and E. Säckinger, “Electronic Synapse Circuit for Artificial Neural Network”, U.S. Patent 5,274,748, December 1993.
B. E. Boser, “Pattern recognition with optimal margin classifiers”, in Fundamentals in Handwriting Recognition, S. Impedovo, Editor, pp. 147–171, Springer Verlag, 1994.
B. E. Boser and E. Säckinger, “Electronic Synapse Circuit for Artificial Neural Network”, U.S. Patent 5,412,565, May 1995.
International Business Times, 1/2007. pdf