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This paper presents a fully integrated power management and sensing microsystem that harvests solar energy from a micro-power photovoltaic module for autonomous operation of a miniaturized hydrogen sensor. In order to measure H-2 concentration, conductance ...

This article describes the design and the characterization of the ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) built in AMS 0.35 m technology for low dc-current sensing. This energy-efficient ASIC was specifically d ...

This paper presents a fully integrated, ultra-low power microsystem that is used for hydrogen gas sensing in an autonomous wireless sensor node. The proposed circuit harvests solar energy from a micro-power photovoltaic module to measure temperature and hy ...

This paper explores the potential and limitations of analog integrated circuit techniques for the simulation of low-loss or lossless 1D or 2D transmission mediums. In this approach, a transmission line is mapped into a ladder consisting of N identical LC e ...

This paper presents a modeling strategy to simulate 2D propagation of electrical perturbations induced by direct biasing of substrate junctions. Identifying parasitic substrate devices such as bipolar transistors reaches rapidly its limit when multiple cur ...

This paper presents the design of the ANTIGONE ASIC in AMS 0.35 mu m technology that interfaces with ion-sensitive field effect transistors (ISFETs) to detect biomarkers like pH, Na+ and K+ in human sweat. The ISFET sensors generate a low current dc signal ...

This paper presents a novel physics-based analytical compact model for the drift region of a high-voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (HV-MOSFET). According to this model, the drift region is considered as a simple 1-D problem, just a ...

This paper presents a solar charger ASIC for Nickelbased (NiCd or NiMH) batteries. The system is fully integrated and no external component is needed. The ASIC includes a voltage reference, a low-impedance switch, an oscillator, a poweron reset, and a digi ...

We present the design of a wide dynamic-range CMOS A/D interface circuit for ionization chambers, able to digitize input charge of both polarities over six decades, to operate in a radioactive environment, and foreseen working without calibration. The circ ...

This research presents a discrete-time transmission line model based on the propagation of travelling waves. In this approach, the transmission line is emulated by means of many interconnected unit delay cells implemented with switched-capacitor (SC) circu ...

In this paper, an ultra-low power consumption crystal oscillator embedded in an RTC module (ASIC and its crystal resonator) is presented. The technique leverages oscillation amplitude and loads capacitance scaling; it incorporates transistor level merging ...

This paper presents constraints involved in the microelectronic implementation of a transmission line model based on transconductor-capacitor (gm-C) topologies. The presented line model, based on the discretization of a transmission line into a finite numb ...

The Gas Pixel Detector belongs to the very limited class of gas detectors optimized for the measurement of X-ray polarization in the emission of astrophysical sources. The choice of the mixture in which X-ray photons are absorbed and photoelectrons propaga ...

Harvesting energy from ambient energy sources, such as thermal gradients is one solution to address the dramatic increase in energy consumption of personal electronics. While in the field, energy abundantly available in form of heat. The use of primary cel ...

This paper presents a modeling strategy to simulate the propagation of electrical perturbations induced by direct biasing of substrate junctions. Usually, this is done by identifying parasitic substrate devices such as bipolar transistors. However, mapping ...

Presented is a transistor-level implementation of a floating and tunable CMOS active inductor. It is based on the classical gyrator-C topology and is enhanced by adding an internal offset reduction mechanism to guarantee functionality also for unbalanced D ...

This paper presents a new modeling methodology accounting for generation and propagation of minority carriers that can be used directly in circuit-level simulators in order to estimate coupled parasitic currents. The method is based on a new compact model ...

This research presents a transmission line model aimed for the fault location in power systems using a method based on the Electromagnetic Time-Reversal (EMTR). The discrete-time model simulates the waves travelling in the line by means of many unit delays ...

A low-power 14-bits first order incremental Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is presented. Based on the charge balancing principle, this switched-capacitor (SC) circuit integrates the input signal multiple times to reach the targeted resolution, linearity ...

This paper presents an ultra-low power generic compensation scheme that is used to implement a real time clock based on an AlN-driven 1 MHz uncompensated silicon resonator achieving 3.2 mu W power dissipation at 1 V and +/- 10 ppm frequency accuracy over a 0-50 degrees C temperature range. It relies on the combination of fractional division and frequency interpolation for coarse and fine tuning respectively. By proper calibration and application of temperature dependent corrections, any frequency below that

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An ultra-low power energy-efficient microsystem for hydrogen gas sensing applications

ANTIGONE: A Programmable Energy-Efficient Current Digitizer for an ISFET Wearable Sweat Sensing System

A Miniaturized Autonomous Microsystem for Hydrogen Gas Sensing Applications

OTA-C based high-speed analog processing for real-time fault location in electrical power networks

Global 2D modeling of minority and majority substrate coupled currents

Design of an Energy-Efficient Current-to-Frequency Converter for a Wearable Sensor Platform

A Physics-Based Analytical Compact Model for the Drift Region of the HV-MOSFET

A fully integrated solar battery charger

A 20-bit dynamic range CMOS A/D converter for ionization chambers

Switched-capacitor high-speed emulator for real-time fault location in electrical power systems

A 32kHz crystal oscillator leveraging voltage scaling in an ultra-low power 40nA real-time clock

Implementation Guidelines for a Real-Time Fault Location System in Electrical Power Networks

Spectral and polarimetric characterization of the Gas Pixel Detector filled with dimethyl ether

A Fully Integrated 60 mV Cold-Start Circuit for Single Coil DC-DC Boost Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting

Global modeling strategy of parasitic coupled currents induced by minority-carrier propagation in semiconductor substrates

Tunable floating active inductor with internal offset reduction

A circuit-level substrate current model for smart-power ICs

Ultra High-Speed Hardware Emulator for Real-Time Fault Location in Multi-Conductor Power Systems

A high sensitivity low-power capacitive front-end for insulin injection pens

Silicon Resonator Based 3.2 mu W Real Time Clock With +/- 10 ppm Frequency Accuracy