Prof. Arie Arbel's Home Page

File Updated: January 2003

Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Room no. 554,
phone: 04-8294693

email: arbel@ee.technion.ac.il

Resume:

Arie Arbel (formerly Fischmann) attended the Deutsche Technische Hochschule at Prague, Czechoslovakia, between 1936--1938. He received the B.E.E. summa cum laude and the M.E.E. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1955 and 1956, respectively, and the D.Sc. from the I.I.T. (Israel Institute of Technology), in 1966. In his D.Sc. thesis he introduced current instead of voltage as an alternative signal parameter. He patented numerous ideas, among them the principle of a folding A/D converter which is being manufactured by Philips under license, and a transistorized feedback network providing a digitally controlled variable linear gain (see publications). He consults several companies in Israel. He is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of E.E., I.I.T.
Dr. Arbel is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi.

Research Interests:

Wide Band, Precision Analog Signal Processing, Tunable Analog Filters, Noise Performance, Electronic Instrumentation. A/D and D/A Conversion, Very High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line Technology. Photon Detector Focal Plane Array Readout Systems.
Note:
Prof. Arbel is retired and does not accept new students any more.

Annotated Publications: (selected)

• A. Arbel, Transistorized Analogue-to-Digital Converter for Pulse-Height Analysis, presented at the Nuclear Electronics Conference, Belgrade, May 1961.
  Uses current as input parameter, which is utilized in a linear gate at the input consisting of two diodes only.

• A. Arbel, The Current Routing Amplifier, A Novel Circuit Element, Proceedings of the Symposium on Nuclear Instrumentation, Harwell, Sept. 1961.

• A. Arbel, Current Operated Nucleonic Modules, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Vol. 32, pp. 341-346, 1965.

• A. Arbel, Multistage Transistorized Current Modules, Trans. IEEE on Circuit Theory, Vol. CT-13, No. 2, pp. 302-310, Sept. 1966.

• A. Arbel, Mismatch Oriented Design of Feedback Circuits and its Application to Nuclear Electronics, Trans. IEEE on Nuclear Science, NS-16, No. 4, pp. 2-15, Aug. 1969. (Also presented at the 1st Ispra Nuclear Electronics Symposium, May 1969).

• A. Arbel, Identification of the Return Difference Matrix of a Multivariable Linear Control System, in Terms of its Inverse Closed Loop Transfer Matrix, The International J. of Circuit Theory and Appl., Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 187-190, June 1973.

• A. Arbel, Return Ratio and Sensitivity Computation for Multivariable Control Systems and Feedback-Stabilized Multiple Amplifier Active Circuits, The International J. of Circuit Theory and Appl., Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 191-199, June 1973. (A review paper has been submitted upon request to the Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik).

• Fast ADC, joint paper with R. Kurz, Trans. IEEE on Nuclear Science, Vol. NS-22, pp. 440-451, Feb. 1975. (Also presented at the Nuclear Science Symposium, Washington, 1974). Introduces the concept of the folding technique employed in high speed A/D converters. Patented by the authors and manufactured by Philips.

• A. Arbel, Analog Divider, Trans. IEEE on Nuclear Science, Vol. NS-28, pp. 621-624, Feb. 1981.

• Development of a Portable Microdosimetric Radiation Protection Monitor Covering a Dynamic Range of 120dB Above Noise, joint paper with J. Booz, K.D. Mueller and H. Neuhauss, Trans. IEEE on Nuclear Science, Vol. NS-31, pp. 691-696, Feb. 1984. Manufactured.

• Low-Noise High Speed Optical Receiver for Fiber Optic Systems, joint paper with J. Bowers and J. Lauch, IEEE Jour. S.S.C., Vol. SC-19, pp. 155-157, Feb. 1984.

• Output Stage for Current-Mode Feedback Amplifiers, Theory and Applications, joint paper with Lavy Goldminz, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 2, (3), pp. 243-255, 1992.

• A. Arbel, Pure Mode Versus Mixed Mode Interfacing Between Analog Circuits, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 4, pp. 167-172, 1993.

• Application of Complementary Techniques to a Bipolar Translinear Gain Cell and a Translinear CCII+, joint paper with Luis Magram, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 7, pp. 221-242, 1995.

• Current-Mode Feedback Amplifier Employing a Transistorized Feedback Network, joint paper with Luis Magram, Proc. ISCAS'94, London, pp. 607-610. Patented.

• A. Arbel, The Voltage Op-Amp Revisited, Proceedings ECCTD 95, Istanbul, pp. 13-16.

• A. Arbel, Comparison Between the Noise Performance of Current-Mode and Voltage Mode Postamplifiers, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 9, pp. 119-129, 1996. Also presented at the European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Davos, Sept. 93.

• A. Arbel, An Innovative Low Noise Preamplifier, presented at the Third International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Rodos, Oct. 1996, Proceedings, pp. 69-72.

• Arie Arbel, Negative Feedback Revisited, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 10, pp. 157-178, 1996.

• A. Arbel, Towards a Perfect CCII, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 12, pp. 119-132, 1997.

• Use of a CCII-- as Universal Building Block, joint paper with R. Cabeza and A. Carlosena, Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 28, pp. 543-550, 1997.

• A. Arbel, The Dynamic Range of Feedback Stabilized Post Amplifiers Employing C-MOS Transistors, Melecon 1998, Tel-Aviv. Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp. 494-498.

• A. Arbel, Pure Mode Gm - C Biquad Filters, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 25, pp. 17-33, 2000.

• C. Friedman, A. Arbel and R. Ginosar, The Current Skimming-Based CMOS Readont Architectures for Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors, 1999 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, Kanagawa, Japan, June 1999.

• A. Arbel, Review of Research on ASP by the Author (invited paper), with introduction by Prof. Moschytz and Prof. Toumazou.  IEEE TCASII, Vol. 49, No. 9, Sept. 2002, pp. 597-611. 

• Comment on `Current-Mode Biquad with a Minimum Number of Passive Elements', IEEE TCASII, Vol. 49, No. 12, Dec. 2002.

 

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