State University of New York at Stony Brook

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Site: Networks of Smart Sensors (NoSS)

Vision:
• Sensor Revolution: smaller, smarter, mobile, sensors.
• Sizable networks of smart sensors
• Data acquisition over 2D and 3D areas
• Aggregated digital data to embedded systems.

Presenters: Wendy Tang, wendy.tang@stonybrook.edu

(631) 632-8404

Alexa Doboli, alexa.doboli@stonybrook.edu

(631) 632-1611
 State University of New York at Stony Brook
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Site: Networks of Smart Sensors (NoSS)

Outline

• Goal and Vision

•Three Research Thrusts
• Sample Projects
• People
Stony Brook: Networks of Smart Sensors
Vision: Aggregated Digital Signals from various Sensors.

Smart sensor

Aggregated
Mixed Signal Mixed Signal
Interface Interface Digital
Signals
Sensor Sensor Embedded System

Mixed Signal
Smart sensor Interface
Sensor

A network of smart sensors

A network of smart sensors Embedded System

Aggregated
Digital
Signals

Stony Brook ASU + Partners

 State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research Site: Networks of Smart Sensors (NoSS)

Three Major Research Thrusts: Smart sensor

A network of smart sensors Mixed Signal Mixed Signal

Interface Interface
Sensor Sensor

• Sensor Smart sensor

Mixed Signal
Interface

•bioMEMS, acoustic, optical sensors Sensor

• low cost, low power, size miniaturization

• Mixed Signal Interface

•Frontends, reconfigurable mixed signal circuits
• low cost and design time

• Networking
• wired and wireless communications
• low power, scalability, mobility, and security
 Integrated Sensor for Neural Recording
Ridha Kamoua Milutin Stanaćević
Applications

™Functional Electrical
Stimulation (FES)

™Prosthesis

™Neural Research

¾ BioMEMS sensor for peripheral nerve

recording
¾ Record from large number of axons within a
nerve
¾ Sensor integrated with data acquisition
¾ Integrated power harvesting and telemetry for
implantable sensor
 Novel Photon Counting Techniques
Serge Luryi

Integrated single photon

fluorescent detector FPGA coreboard

Fiberized “three photon” temperature,

oxygen, and pressure meters

Contact: Serge Luryi, 631-632 8420, serge.luryi@stonybrook.edu

 Bi-directional
Single Fiber Communication System
Michael Gouzman

Optical Power

Data

Contact: Michael Gouzman, 631-632 8481, mig@ece.sunysb.edu

 Powered Over Fiber Sensors
Serge Luryi and Micahel Gouzman

Optical Single 0.6-1.1 Volt

Power Photoelectric
Cell
Sub-Volt Sub-Volt
Parameter LED (Laser)
Converter Driver

Parameter
(R, C, V,…) Data

Contact: Michael Gouzman, 631-632-8481, mig@ece.sunysb.edu

Fuel Gauge
 Integrated Microsystems Lab
Milutin Stanacevic

Vision
To embed sensor intelligence at micro and
nano scales at the interface between sensor
and micropower integrated electronics
through:
– novel technologies
– novel architectures
– novel algorithmic solutions

Current projects
– intelligent hearing aids and assistive
listening devices
– neuro-instrumentation : neural
recording headstage
– instrumentation for gas and bio-
metabolite detection
– adaptive transcutaneous power
telemetry with neuro-stimulator
– adaptive beamforming integrated
antenna array
 VLSI System Design Laboratory
(http://www.ece.sunysb.edu/~vsdlab)
Lab director: Dr. Alex Doboli Analog Circuit Modeling:
Email: adoboli@ece.sunysb.edu • current mirror
(sCgd3−gm3)vin1
v3

(gm3+gmb3+go3)v1 (sCgd4)v4 C3 R3
M1 M2 M8

Phone: 631-632-1611
v4

M10 (sCgd4−gm4) (sCgd2−gm2) (gm4+gmb4 (sCgd8) (1/Rf)

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n3 n4 v1
n2
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differential pair (sCgs3+gm3) (sCgs4+gm4) go3v3 go4v4
nout vin1 Vin2 C1 R1

Vin1 M3 M4 Vin2 v2
RL CL

Scientific Expertise: n1
(sCgd8−gm8)v4

v5
(sCf)v5
(sCgd10)
vout C2 R2
vout

• Embedded Mixed-Signal SoC M6 M5 M7 M9 (sCgs10+gm10)

current mirror (1/Rf)v4 (sCf)v2 C5 R5 v2 Cout Rout

• CAD for Analog & Mixed-signal design

• Analog Circuit Modeling Reconfigurable ΔΣ Modulators:
• Mixed-Signal Specification Languages • 2nd ,3rd , 4th order
• Multi-mode
• Behavioral modeling
Automated design
• System optimization
of analog and mixed-signal systems
VHDL-AMS Topology generation and
(low power, robustness, effort)
specifications:
entity aaa is
system architecture selection:
Performance
• Decimator design, API
…
integ
integ evaluation
end entity;

m DAC

Obtained
Optimization algorithms:
Circuit and
interconnect
models
Constraint transformation,
floorplanning and global routing
performance
• Heuristic (SA, GA, TS)
Performance
• Stochastic optimization
evaluation
(simulation) • Integer Linear Programming
 Wireless Sensor Balls for Homeland Security
Goldie Nejat, Wendy Tang, Michael Gouzman, Eric Noel
• Sensory system consists of: (i) an analog temperature sensor, (ii) a digital
temperature sensor, and (iii) a visual camera.

• The sensory information is sent back wirelessly utilizing a Crossbow MICA2 mote.
Both digital and analog signal conditioning must take place.

LM35

LM92

MDA100 board Base station Mote

Fig 1: Overall Sensory MDA100
Fig 2: The sensor ball Fig3: The LM92 digital
System including mote,
with mote and MDA100 temp sensor, and LM35
MDA100 board, base
board. analog temp sensor
station, camera, RS232
with corresponding
cables and temperature
connections.
sensors.
 Wireless Health Monitoring
Wendy Tang, Goldie Nejat, Eric Noel and Michael Gouzman

Approach:

•Integrated vital sign sensors

•Dedicated frequency for node
•Multi-hop network
•Pseudo-random frequency
Data from Data from
distribution for simultaneous collapsed
patient
critical
patient

communications of given
priority
given
priority

large number of users.

•Noisy and mobile environment
 Stony Brook People
The Sensor Group

Sensor Network Group

Mixed Signal Interface Group