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Professor A. Mason: Publications

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Journal Paper

2009-2011

L. Li, X. Liu, W. A. Qureshi, A. J. Mason, “CMOS Amperometric Instrumentation and Packaging for Biosensor Array Applications,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circ. Systems, vol. 5 (5), pp. 439-448, Oct. 2011. <PDF>

C. Yang, S. R. Jadhav, R. M. Worden, A. J. Mason, “Compact Low-Power Impedance-to-Digital Converter for Sensor Array Microsystems,” IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 44 (10), pp. 2844-2855, Oct. 2009. <PDF>

D. Rairigh, G. Warnell, C. Xu, E. T. Zellers, A. J. Mason, “CMOS Baseline Tracking and Cancellation Instrumentation for Nanopartical-Coated Chemiresistors,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circ. Systems, vol. 3 (5), pp. 267-276, Oct. 2009. <PDF>

C. Yang and A. Mason, “Fully Integrated 7-Order Frequency Range Quadrature Sinusoid Signal Generator,” IEEE Trans. Instrumentation Measurement, vol. 58 (10), pp. 3481-3489, Oct. 2009. <PDF>

L. Yu, Y. Huang, X. Jin, A. J. Mason, X. Zeng, “Ionic Liquid Thin Layer EQCM Explosives Sensor,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, vol. 140, no. 2, pp. 363-370, July 2009. <PDF>

C. Yang, Y. Huang, B. L. Hassler, R. M. Worden, A. J. Mason, “Amperometric Electrochemical Microsystem for a Miniaturized Protein Biosensor Array,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circ. Systems, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 160-168, June 2009. <PDF>

X. Jin, Y. Huang, A. Mason, and X. Zeng, “Multichannel Monolithic Quartz Crystal Microbalance Gas Sensor Array,” Analytical Chemistry, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 595-603, January 2009. <PDF>

Prior to 2009

A. M. Kamboh, K. G. Oweiss, A. Mason, “Analysis of Lifting and B-Spline DWT Implementations for Implantable Neuroprosthetics,” Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 249-261, Sep. 2008.. <PDF>

C. Yang and A. Mason, “Precise RSSI with High Process Variation Tolerance,” IEEE Tran. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 55 (3), pp. 722-729, April 2008. <PDF>

N. Trombly, A. Mason, “Post-CMOS Thermally Controlled Electrochemical Electrodes,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 29-30, Jan. 2008. <PDF>

A. Mason, A. V. Chavan, K. D. Wise, “A Mixed-Voltage Sensor Readout Circuit with On-Chip Calibration and Built-In Self-Test,” IEEE Sensors J, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 1225-1232, September 2007. <PDF>

A. Kamboh, M. Raetz, K. Oweiss, A. Mason “Area-Power Efficient VLSI Implementation of Multichannel DWT for Data Compression in Implantable Neuroprosthetics,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circ. Systems, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 128-135, June 2007. <PDF>

K. Oweiss, A. Mason, K. Thomson, Y. Suhail, A. Kamboh, “A Scalable Wavelet Transform VLSI Architecture for Real-Time Neural Signal Conditioning in Implantable Multichannel Neuroprosthetic Devices,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 1266-1278, June 2007. <PDF>

J. Zhang, J. Zhou and A. Mason, “Highly Adaptive Transducer Interface Circuit for Multi-Parameter Microsystems,” IEEE Trans. Circ. Sys. I, vol. 54, no. 1, Jan. 2007. <PDF>

D. Rairigh, C. Yang and A. Mason, “Analysis of On-Chip Impedance Spectroscopy Methodologies for Sensor Arrays,” Sensor Letters, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 398-402, 2006. <PDF>

J. Zhou, P. Balasundaram, and A. Mason, “Architecture for a Microsystem Controller in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Sensor Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 64-68, March 2004.

C. A. Grimes, K. G. Ong, O. K. Varghese, X. Yang, G. Mor, M. Paulose, E. C. Dickey, C. Ruan, M. V. Pishko, J. W. Kendig, and A. J. Mason, “A Sentinel Sensor Network for Hydrogen Sensing,” SENSORS, vol. 3(3), pp. 69-82, March 2003. <PDF 4.5MB>

J. Zhou and A. Mason, “Communication Buses and Protocols for Sensor Networks,” SENSORS, (ISSN:1424-8220), vol. 2 (7), pp. 244-257, August 2002. <PDF 1.5MB>

N. Yazdi, A. Mason, K. Najafi, and K. D. Wise, “A Generic Interface Circuit for Capacitive Sensors in Low-Power Multi-Parameter Microsystems,” Sensors and Actuators, vol. 84, pp. 351-361, 2000. <PDF 3.5MB>

A. Mason, N. Yazdi, A. V. Chavan, K. Najafi, and K. D. Wise, “A Generic Multielement Microsystem for Portable Wireless Applications,” (Invited) Proc. IEEE, vol. 86 (8), pp. 1733-1745, August 1998. <PDF 360KB>

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Conference Papers

2011

·   Yuning Yang, Andrew J. Mason, “On-Chip Spike Clustering & Classification Using Self Organizing Map for Neural Recording Implants,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits Systems Conf., pp. 145-148, Nov. 2011. <PDF>

·   Haitao Li, Andrew J. Mason, “Comprehensive Analysis and Optimization of CMOS Neural Amplifiers for Wireless Recording Implants,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits Systems Conf., pp. 73-76, Nov. 2011. <PDF>

·   Xiaowen Liu, Lin Li, Bhushan Awate, R. Mark Worden, Andrew J. Mason, “Biosensor Array Microsystem on a CMOS Amperometric Readout Chip,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits Systems Conf., pp. 305-308, Nov. 2011. <PDF>

·   Shuo Guan, Jingren Gu, Zhonghan Shen, Junyu Wang, Yue Huang, Andrew Mason, “A Wireless Powered Implantable Bio-Sensor Tag System-on-Chip for Continuous Glucose Monitoring,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits Systems Conf., pp. 193-196, Nov. 2011. <PDF>

·   X. Mu, X. Liu, D. Rairigh, A. J. Mason, “Rapid Impedance Measurement of Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membrane Biosensors,” IEEE Eng. Medicine Biology Conf., Boston MA USA, pp. 4796 - 4799, August 2011. <PDF>

·   Y. Yang and A. J. Mason, “Implantable Neural Spike Detection using Lifting-Based Stationary Wavelet Transform,” IEEE Eng. Medicine Biology Conf., Boston MA USA, pp. 7294 - 7297, August 2011. <PDF>

·   X. Mu, D. Rairigh, A. J. Mason, “125ppm Resolution and 120dB Dynamic Range Nanoparticle Chemiresistor Array Readout Circuit,” IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Rio Brazil, pp. 2213 - 2216, May 2011. <PDF>

·   A. M. Kamboh and A. J. Mason, “Channel Characterization for Implant to Body Surface Communication,” IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Rio Brazil, pp. 913 - 916, May 2011. <PDF>

·   Y. Huang, A. J. Mason, “Lab-on-CMOS: Integrating Microfluidics and Sensor Arrays on CMOS,” IEEE Int. Conf. Nano/Micro Engineered Molecular Systems, Feb. 2011. <PDF>

2010

·   A. Kamboh, A. J. Mason, “On-Chip Feature Extraction for Spike Sorting in High Density Implantable Neural Recording Systems,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits Systems Conf., Cyprus, Nov. 2010. Best Student Paper <PDF>

·   L. Li, W. Qureshi, X. Liu, A. J. Mason, “Amperometric Instrumentation System with On-chip Electrode Array for Biosensor Application,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits Systems Conf., Cyprus, Nov. 2010. <PDF>

·   Y. Yang, A. Kamboh, A. J. Mason, “Adaptive Threshold Spike Detection using Stationary Wavelet Transform for Neural Recording Implants,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits Systems Conf., Cyprus, Nov. 2010. <PDF>

·   L. Li and A. J. Mason, “Post-CMOS Parylene Packaging for On-chip Biosensor Arrays,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, October 2010. <PDF>

·   A. J. Mason and Y. Huang, “Membrane protein biosensor arrays on CMOS,” (Invited) Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, Malaysia, August 2010.

·   X. Liu, D. Rairigh, A. Mason, “A Fully Integrated Multi-channel Impedance Extraction Circuit for Biosensor Arrays,” IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Paris France, pp. 3140 – 3143, May 2010. <PDF>

·   A. Kamboh, Y. Yang, K. Oweiss, A. J. Mason, “Design of a Configurable Neural Data Compression System for Intra-Cortical Implants,” IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Paris France, pp. 3473 – 3476, May 2010. <PDF>

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2009

·   Y. Huang and A. J. Mason, “A Redox-Enzyme-Based Electrochemical Biosensor with a CMOS Integrated Bipotentiostat,” IEEE BioCAS Conf., Beijing China, Nov. 2009. <PDF>

·   X. Liu, L. Li, A. J. Mason, “Thermal Control Microsystem for Protein Characterization and Sensing,” IEEE BioCAS Conf., Beijing China, Nov. 2009. <PDF>

·   Awais M. Kamboh, Karim G. Oweiss and Andrew J. Mason, “Resource Constrained VLSI Architecture for Implantable Neural Data Compression Systems,” IEEE Int. Conf. Circuits Systems, pp. 1481-1484, May 2009. <PDF>

·   X. Liu, D. Rairigh, C. Yang, A. J. Mason, “Impedance-to-Digital Converter for Sensor Array Microsystems,” IEEE Int. Conf. Circuits Systems, pp. 353-356, May 2009. <PDF>

·   D. Rairigh, X. Liu, C. Yang and A. J. Mason, “Sinusoid Signal Generator for On-chip Impedance Spectroscopy,” IEEE Int. Conf. Circuits Systems, pp. 1961-1964, May 2009. <PDF>

·   F. T. Abu-Nimeh, A. Kamboh, M. Aghagolzadeh, U.-M. Jow, A. Mason, M. Ghovanloo, K. Oweiss, "A Highly Modular, Wireless, Implantable Interface to the Cortex," IEEE/EMBS Conf. Neural Engineering, Antalya Turkey, pp. 375-378, April 2009. <PDF>

2008

·   D. Rairigh, G. Warnell, A. J. Mason, C. Xu, M. P. Rowe, E. T. Zellers, E. Covington, C. Kurdak, “Nanoparticle Coated Chemiresistor with CMOS Baseline Tracking and Cancellation,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, pp. 196-199, October 2008. <PDF>

·   C. Yang and A. J. Mason, “Membrane Protein Biosensor with Multi-Channel CMOS Impedance Extractor and Digitizer,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, pp. 642-645, October 2008. <PDF>

·   D. Rairigh, A. Mason, M. P. Rowe, E. T. Zellers, “Baseline Resistance Cancellation Circuit for High Resolution Thiolate-Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanoparticle Vapor Sensor Arrays”, IEEE Int. Symposium on Circ. and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 2002-2005, May 2008. <PDF>

2007

·   Chao Yang, Daniel Rairigh and Andrew Mason, “Fully Integrated Impedance Spectroscopy for Biochemical Sensor Arrays,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, November 2007. <PDF>

·   D. Rairigh and A. Mason, “Compact Impedance Spectroscopy for High Density Sensor Arrays,” IEEJ Int. Analog VLSI Workshop, November 2007. <PDF>

·   M. A. Shetliffe, A. M. Kamboh, A. Mason, K. G. Oweiss, “Impact of Lossy Compression on Neural Response Characteristics Extracted from High-Density Intra-Cortical Implant Data,“ Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France, August 2007. <PDF>

·   C. Yang and A. Mason, “Precise RSSI with High Process Variation Tolerance,” IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp. 2870-2873, May 2007. <PDF>

·   A. Kamboh, M. Raetz, A. Mason and K. Oweiss “Area-Power Efficient Lifting-Based DWT Hardware for Implantable Neuroprosthetics,” IEEE Int. Symposium on Circ. and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 2371-2374, May 2007. <PDF>

·   A. Mason, Y. Huang, C. Yang, J. Zhang, “Amperometric Readout and Electrode Array Chip for Bioelectrochemical Sensors,” IEEE Int. Symposium on Circ. and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 3562-3565, May 2007. <PDF>

·   A. Kamboh, A. Mason and K. Oweiss “A High-Yield Area-Power Efficient DWT Hardware for Implantable Neural Interface Applications,” IEEE/EMBS Int. Conf. Neural Engineering, Hawaii, USA, pp. 212-216,  May 2007. <PDF>

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Prior to 2007

·   A. M. Kamboh and A. Mason, “Comparison of Area-Power Efficient Techniques for Neural Data Compression using Discrete Wavelet Transform,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 811-814, October 2006. <PDF>

·   Y. Huang and A. Mason, “Post-CMOS Compatible Microfabrication of a Multi-Analyte Bioelectrochemical Sensor Array Microsystem,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 612-615, October 2006.<PDF>

·   C. Yang, D. Rairigh, A. Mason, “On-Chip Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Biosensor Arrays,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 93-96,  October 2006.<PDF>

·   C. Yang, A. Mason, J. Xi, P. Zhong, “Configurable Hardware-Efficient Interface Circuit for Multi-Sensor Microsystems,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 41-44,  October 2006, (finalist for Best Student Paper). <PDF>

·    J. Xi, C. Yang, P. Zhong, A. Mason, “Adaptive Multi-Sensor Interface System-On-Chip”, IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 50-53, October 2006. <PDF>

·   K. Thomson, T. Shlien, Y. Suhail, K. Oweiss, A. Mason, “B-Spline vs. Lifting Architecture for Neuroprosthetic Devices,” IEEE Int. Conf. Electro/Information Technology, E. Lansing MI USA, May 2006.

·   C. Yang and A. Mason, “Zero-IF VGA with Novel Offset Cancellation,” IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Kos Greece, May 2006. <PDF>

·   J. Zhou and A. Mason, “A Two-level Hybrid Select Logic for Wide-Issue Superscalar Processors,” IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Kos Greece, May 2006. <PDF>

·   J. Zhang, Y. Huang, N. Trombly, C. Yang, A. Mason, “Electrochemical Array Microsystem with Integrated Potentiostat,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Irving CA, pp. 385-388, October 2005. <PDF>

·   C. Kun, A. Mason, S. Chakrabartty, “A Dynamic Reconfigurable A/D Converter for Sensor Applications,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Irving CA, pp. 1221-1224, October 2005. <PDF>

·   A. Mason, J. Li, K. Thomson, Y. Suhail and K. Oweiss, “Design Optimization of Integer Lifting DWT Circuitry for Implantable Neuroprosthetics,” IEEE-EMBS Int. Conf. on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, pp. 112-115, May 2005. <PDF>

·   K. Oweiss, A. Mason, K. Thomson, J. Li, Y. Suhail, “Augmenting Real-Time DSP in Implantable High-Density Neuroprosthetic Devices,” IEEE-EMBS Int. Conf. on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, pp.108-111, May 2005. <PDF>

·   J. Zhou and A. Mason, “Increasing Design Space of the Instruction Queue with Tag Coding,” Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI, pp. 404-407, April 2005. <PDF>

·   B. Hassler, R. M. Worden, A. Mason, P. Kim, N. Kohli, J. G. Zeikus, M. Laivenieks, and R. Ofoli, “Biomimetic Interfaces for a Multifunctional Biosensor Array Microsystem,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Vienna, Austria, pp. 991-994, October 2004.  <PDF>

·   J. Zhang, N. Trombly, and A. Mason, “A Low Noise Readout Circuit for Integrated Electrochemical Biosensor Arrays,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Vienna, Austria, pp. 36-39, October 2004.  <PDF>

·   J. Zhang and A. Mason, “Characterization of a Configurable Sensor Signal Conditioning Circuit for Multi-Sensor Microsystems,”IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Vienna, Austria, pp. 198-201, October 2004.  <PDF>

·   Cheong KUN, Shaolei Quan, and Andrew Mason, “A Power-Optimized 64-bit Priority Encoder Utilizing Parallel Priority Look-Ahead,” IEEE Int. Symposium on Circ. and Systems (ISCAS), Vancouver Canada, vol. II, pp. 753-756, May 2004.  <PDF, 370KB>

·   Prasanna Balasundaram, Kartik Vaidyanathan, and Andrew Mason, “Microsystem Controller for Sensor Network Control and Data Correction,” IEEE Int. Symposium on Circ. and Systems (ISCAS), Vancouver Canada, vol. II, pp. 809-812, May 2004.  <PDF, 230KB>

·   N. Dotson, P. Kim and A. Mason, “Low Cost MEMS Processing Techniques,” Proc. ASEE/NCS Spring Conference, Kalamazoo MI, April 2004. <PDF, 300KB>

·   N. Kohli, B. Hassler, S. Vaidya, L. Parthasarathy, R. Ofoli, R. M. Worden, P. Kim, and A. Mason, “Biomimetic Interface for Integrated Biosensor Arrays,”  Proc. American Inst. Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2003.

·   J. Zhang, J. Zhou, P. Balasundaram, and A. Mason, “A Highly Programmable Sensor Network Interface with Multiple Sensor Readout Circuits,”  IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Toronto, Canada, October 2003.  <PDF, 970KB>

·   P. Kim, N. Kohli, A. Mason, R. M. Worden, and R. Ofoli, “An Electrochemical Interface for Integrated Biosensors,”  IEEE Int. Conf. on Sensors, Toronto, Canada, October 2003.  <PDF, 230KB>

·   A. Mason, N. Yazdi , J. Zhang, and Z. Sainudeen, “A Modular Sensor Microsystem Utilizing a Universal Interface C,ircuit,” IEEE Int. Symposium on Circ. and Systems (ISCAS), Bangkok Thailand, May 2003. <PDF, 700KB>

·   J. Zhang, K. Zhang, Z. Wang, and A. Mason, “A Universal Micro-Sensor Interface Chip with Network Communication Bus and Highly-Programmable Sensor Readout,” Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, August 2002. <PDF, 200KB>

·   M. Jain, C. Grimes, K. Takahata, Y. Gianchandani, S. Singh, and A. Mason, “Magnetoelastic Microsensors for Environmental Monitoring,” Digest, IEEE Int. MEMS-01 Conf., Interlaken, Switzerland, January 2001. <PDF, 2MB>

·   J. C. Fox, A. Mason, and N. Yazdi, "Spacecraft Microaccelerometer Microsystem," Space Technology Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque NM , September 1999.

·   A. V. Chavan, A. Mason, U. Kang, and K. D. Wise, “A Programmable Mixed-Voltage Sensor Readout Circuit and Bus Interface with Built-In Self-test,” Digest, Int. Solid State Circ. Conf., San Francisco CA, pp. 136-137, February 1999.  <PDF, 190KB>

·   N. Yazdi, A. Mason, K. Najafi, and K. D. Wise, “A Low-Power Generic Interface Circuit for Capacitive Sensors” Digest, Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island SC, pp. 215-218, June 1996. <PDF, 160KB>

·   N. Yazdi, A. Mason, K. Najafi, and K. D. Wise, “A Smart Sensing Microsystem with a Capacitive Sensor Interface,” Digest, IEEE Int. Symposium on Circ. and Systems, Atlanta GA, vol. IV, pp. 336-339, May 1996. <PDF, 360KB>

·   A. Mason, W. Bear, and K. D. Wise, “A Microinstrumentation System for Remote Environmental Monitoring,” Digest, Int. Conf. on Integrated Micro-Nano Tech. for Space Applications, Houston TX , November 1995.

·   A. Mason, N. Yazdi , K. Najafi, and K. D. Wise, “A Low-Power Wireless Microinstrumentation System for Environmental Monitoring,” Digest, Int. Conf. on Sensors and Actuators (Transducers’ 95), Stockholm Sweden, pp. 107-110, June 1995. <PDF, 720KB>

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