• A low power oscillator based temperature sensor for RFID applications 

      Mohamad, Saqib; Tang, Fang; Amira, Abbes; Bermak, Amine; Benammar, Mohieddine ( IEEE Computer Society , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper we present a temperature sensor based on a ring oscillator. The ring oscillator uses the CMOS thyristor delay element and has an extremely low power consumption of about 47nW at room temperature with a supply ...
    • A Low Power Reconfigurable Multi-sensing Platform For Gas Application 

      Ali Akbar, Muhammad; Ait Si Ali, Amine; Amira, Abbes; Benammar, Mohieddine; Benssali, Faycal; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Presence of toxic gases and accidental explosions in gas industries have turned the researcher to innovate an electronic nose system which can indicate the nature and the parameters of the gas passing through different ...
    • A low power temperature sensor based on a voltage to time converter cell 

      Mohamad, Saqib; Fang Tang; Bermak, Amine; Amira, Abbes; Benammar, Mohieddine ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper we propose a temperature sensor, based on a voltage to time converter cell (VTC). A VTC is frequently employed in time to digital converters for generating a delay that is proportional to the input voltage. ...
    • A multi-sensing reconfigurable platform for gas applications 

      Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Ali, Amin Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Benammar, Mohieddine; Bensaali, Faycal; ... more authors ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      The production of hazardous gases due to different physicochemical reactions in gas industries have raised the need of autonomous sensor tag. However the adaptation of remotely controlled sensor tag is still suffering with ...
    • An Empirical Study for PCA- and LDA-Based Feature Reduction for Gas Identification 

      Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      Increasing the number of sensors in a gas identification system generally improves its performance as this will add extra features for analysis. However, this affects the computational complexity, especially if the ...
    • Computationally efficient environmental monitoring with electronic nose: A potential technology for ambient assisted living 

      Hassan, Muhammad; Umar, Muhammad; Bermak, Amine; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Recently, ambient assisted living technologies have emerged to improve the quality of life of ageing populations. Identification of health-endangering indoor gases with a hardware-friendly solution may provide an early ...
    • Continuous-Time ΣΔ ADC with Implicit Variable Gain Amplifier for CMOS Image Sensor 

      Tang, Fang; Bermak, Amine; Abbes, Amira; Benammar, Mohieddine Amor ( Hindawi Publishing Corporation , 2014 , Article)
      This paper presents a column-parallel continuous-time sigma delta (CTSD) ADC for mega-pixel resolution CMOS image sensor (CIS). The sigma delta modulator is implemented with a 2nd order resistor/capacitor-based loop filter. ...
    • Design and implementation of a gas identification system on Zynq SoC platform 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; Akbar, Muhammad Ali; ... more authors ( Asian Research Publishing Network , 2015 , Article)
      The Zynq-7000 based platforms are increasingly being used in different applications including image and signal processing. The Zynq system on chip (SoC) architecture combines a processing system based on a dual core ARM ...
    • Electronic nose system on the Zynq SoC platform 

      Ait Si Ali, Amine; Djelouat, Hamza; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; ... more authors ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      Electronic nose or machine olfaction are systems used for detection and identification of odorous com- pounds and gas mixtures. An electronic nose system is mainly made of two parts, the sensing part which takes the form ...
    • Fast Prototyping of KNN Based Gas Discrimination System on the Zynq SoC 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Electronic noses (EN) or machine olfaction are systems used for the detection and identification of odorous compounds and gas mixtures. The accuracy of such systems is as important as the processing time. Therefore, the ...
    • High Level Synthesis Based E-Nose System for Gas Applications 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; Hassan, Muhammad; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      This paper proposes a hardware/software co-design approach using the Zynq platform for the implementation of an electronic nose (EN) system based on principal component analysis (PCA) as a dimensionality reduction technique ...
    • HW/SW co-design based implementation of Gas discrimination 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; Bermak, Amine ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      A gas discrimination system is mainly made of two parts, the sensing part and the processing part. As an alternative solution to pure software or hardware implementation of the processing part of a gas identification system, ...
    • Impact of feature reduction and operating temperature on gas identification 

      Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine Amor; ... more authors ( Asian Research Publishing Network , 2015 , Article)
      Tin-oxide based gas sensor requires an operating temperature typically in the range of 200 °C to 400 °C and its performance dependents on this temperature. In this paper a deep examination has been made to analyze the best ...
    • Quantification of carcinogenic odor of formaldehyde with electronic nose technologyd 

      Hassan, Muhammad; Umar, Muhammad; Bermak, Amine; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Based on recent experimental discoveries about a link between the length of exposure to formaldehyde and cancers of the lymphatic and hematopoietic systems, we present a low-cost and compact solution for monitoring ...
    • Special issue: Empowering eHealth with smart internet of things (IoT) medical devices 

      Amira, Abbes; Agoulmine, Nazim; Bensaali, Faycal; Bermak, Amine; Dimitrakopoulos, George ( MDPI AG , 2019 , Other)
      [No abstract available]
    • Two-step single slope/SAR ADC with error correction for CMOS image sensor 

      Tang, Fang; Bermak, Amine; Amira, Abbes; Amor Benammar, Mohieddine; He, Debiao; ... more authors ( Hindawi Publishing Corp , 2014 , Article)
      Conventional two-step ADC for CMOS image sensor requires full resolution noise performance in the first stage single slope ADC, leading to high power consumption and large chip area. This paper presents an 11-bit two-step ...