Welcome to e-Lab at Yale University!
e-Lab is the leader research laboratory in silicon on sapphire (SOS) circuits and systems. We work on SOS device characterization, analog-to-digital converters, image sensors, ultra-wide-band radios, biomedical circuits and sensor interfaces.
e-Lab research focuses also on biomedical instrumentation and synthetic vision systems and algorithms.
E-Lab Philosophy
e-Lab (ELab) is a VLSI mixed-signal design laboratory specialized in the development of Advanced Sensory Communication Circuits and Systems.
e-Lab research focuses on extending human abilities to interact with the environment through technological advancements. By using emergent fabrication technologies, we design biomedical instrumentation and sensory processing circuits to improve everyday life and to help the scientific endeavor of understanding life.
Our goal is to seek ways to extend human senses, cognition, and health in the same ways that cellular phone and internet enlarged human communication capabilities, knowledge and information retrieval.
e-Lab research interests focus on circuits for sensing, conditioning and processing while mapping topologies and available technologies to the physical level of the source of information.
e-Lab research has global impact, please consider a donation to our research efforts!
News
August 2009: The book "Silicon-on-Sapphire Circuits and Systems, Sensor and Biosensor interfaces by Eugenio Culurciello has been published by McGraw Hill and is available here.
July 2009: Eugenio Culurciello won an NSF award for the project: "A lightweight event-based synthetic vision system for assisted-living and machine vision applications".
June 2009: Eugenio Culurciello and Vincent Pieribone won an NIH award for the project: "High-Speed, Wide Field Fluorescent Imaging of Cortex in Freely Moving Animals (R01 NS065110-01)".
May 2009: We have presented 4 papers and two demos at IEEE ISCAS 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan. For details please refer to publications.
April 2009: Eugenio Culurciello was promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering.
November 2008: Eugenio Culurciello was invited to the National Academies Keck Foundation Future Initiatives Conference, where he was part of group 6B on the study of the human brain.
October 2008: We presented an invited paper at the 2008 IEEE International SOI conference titled: "Mixed Signal Microsystems in Emerging SOI Technologies".
May 2008: We obtained ONR funding for our project on optical brain-machine interfaces, the title of the project is "A high-speed, in-vivo optical neural recording system".
May 2008: Our paper "Fall Detection Using an Address-Event Temporal Contrast Vision Sensor", has won the Best Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle USA, May 18-21, 2008.
January 2008: We obtained ONR funding for our project on hyperbaric instruments for electro-physiology, the title of the project is "Integrated Microscale Biosensor for Cell Membrane and Patch-Clamp".
January 2008: E. Culurciello is writing a book on SOS circuits and systems with the Peregrine Semiconductors Process.
January 2008: All six of our submitted papers were accepted for oral presentation at IEEE ISCAS 2008. For details please refer to publications.
September 2007: We partnered with Peregrine Semiconductors to evaluate ultra low-power sensory and communication interfaces.
August 2007: We obtained ARO seed funding for our project on voltage-sensitive-dyes-imaging titled: "Development of an Implantable Optical Neuroprosthetic: System Integration and Testing" with Vincent Pieribone (Yale-Pierce Fnd.).
July 2007: We obtained NSF funding for our project on high-density patch-clamp amplifiers titled: "IDBR: High-Performance Integrated Patch Clamp Amplifiers" with prof. Fred Sigworth (Yale).
January 2007: 5 papers were accepted at IEEE ISCAS 2007. For details please refer to publications.
October 2006: We participated to the 2nd 3D-run by MIT Lincoln Laboratories with the design of a Silicon Retina.
September 2006: We obtained NSF funding for our project titled: "A Lightweight Event-Driven Network of Biomemetic Image Sensors" with A. Savvides (Yale).
March 2006: We co-developed an AER image sensor simulator to test the sensors before fabrication using a webcam. For details please look here.
March 2005: Farah won the best student paper award for: "Integrated Patch clamp amplifier", Farah Laiwalla, Zhengming Fu, Kate Klemic, Fred Sigworth, Eugenio Culurciello, Yale University CMOC Symposium March 17th, 2005.