Maziar Tavakoli-Dastjerdi worked on an ultra-sensitive MEMS capacitance sensor and on high-performance photoreceptors and motion-sensing circuits while he was at AVBS.

Publications

M. Tavakoli and R. Sarpeshkar, "A sinh resistor and its application to tanh linearization," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 536-543, Feb. 200.

M. Tavakoli and R. Sarpeshkar, "An offset-canceling low-noise lock-in architecture for capacitive sensing," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, pp. 244-253, Feb. 2003.

M. T. Dastjerdi and R. Sarpeshkar, "A low-noise nonlinear feedback technique for compensating offset in analog multipliers," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, vol. 1, May 2002, pp. 725-728.

Motion-Sensing Chip



A VLSI visual motion sensor that yields the speed and direction of a globally moving object along the "Y" direction.