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Fully casted soft power generating triboelectric shoe insole

Pierre-André Farine, Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque

2016

Electrically conductive fabric based stretchable triboelectric energy harvester

Pierre-André Farine, Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque

2016

Design Methodology for Common-Mode Stability of OTA-based Gyrators

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Saeed Ghamari, Gabriele Tasselli

This paper presents a design methodology for common-mode (CM) stability of operational transconductance ampliﬁer (OTA)-based gyrators. The topology of gm−C active inductors is brieﬂy reviewed. Subsequently, a comprehensive mathematical analysis on the CM s ...

Wiley2016

Standalone GPS L1 C/A Receiver for Lunar Missions

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère, Vincenzo Capuano, Jia Tian, Yanguang Wang, Paul David Blunt

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) were originally introduced to provide positioning and timing services for terrestrial Earth users. However, space users increasingly rely on GNSS for spacecraft navigation and other science applications at severa ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Avalanche Microwave Noise Sources in Commercial 90-nm CMOS Technology

Christian Enz, Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Gabriele Tasselli

This paper presents a microwave noise source implemented in a commercial CMOS technology. The circuit is based on the avalanche noise generated by both the source-to-bulk and the drain-to-bulk junctions in reverse breakdown. Two sources of different juncti ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

GNSS-based Orbital Filter for Earth Moon Transfer Orbits

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano

Numerous applications, not only Earth-based, but also space-based, have strengthened the interest of the international scientific community in using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) as navigation systems for space missions that require good accu ...

Cambridge University Press2016

A low-cost UWB sensor node powered by a piezoelectric harvester or solar cells

Nico de Rooij, Anja Skrivervik, Pierre-André Farine, Robert Andrew Lockhart, Danick Briand, Cyril Botteron, Christian Robert, Franz-Josef Haug, Pattanaphong Janphuang, Gabriele Tasselli

We propose an autonomous battery-less wireless sensor node that combines on a single printed circuit board an ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter and its printed antenna, together with a piezoelectric cantilever and a solar cell array to harvest vibrations an ...

Elsevier2016

MEMS Inertial Motion Sensing Watch for Measuring Walking and Running Activities

Kamiar Aminian, Sara Grassi Pauletti, Pierre-André Farine, Benedikt Fasel, Martin Savary, Flavien Bardyn

This paper describes the development of a sport watch, as well as the software and hardware required to design an integrated solution for getting feedback during and after walking and running activities. The developed system is autonomous, so that neither ...

Ieee2016

Derivation of the Cramér-Rao Bound in the GNSS-Reflectometry Context for Static, Ground-Based Receivers in Scenarios with Coherent Reflection

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

The use of the reflected Global Navigation Satellite Systems’ (GNSS) signals in Earth observation applications, referred to as GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R), has been already studied for more than two decades. However, the estimation precision that can be ac ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Phase and frequency self-configurable efficient low voltage harvester for zero power wearable devices

Pierre-André Farine, Alexis Boegli, Milad Ataei Ashtiani

This paper describes a converter which configures itself to increase power transfer and decrease losses. The system controls its three timing variables by three loops in a stable manner. A time domain state-space averaging model is used to design the syste ...

Ieee2016

ns-level time transfer over a microwave link using the PTP-WR protocol

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jean-Pierre Aubry, Mathieu Paul Joseph Carlos Rico

Today it is possible to achieve sub-ns level time synchronization on a wireline network while only us-level synchronization can be achieved on a wireless (microwave) link. In this paper we will, first, study the performances of different time synchronizati ...

2015

An efficient initialization mechanism of neurons for Winner Takes All Neural Network implemented in the CMOS technology

Pierre-André Farine, Rafal Tomasz Dlugosz

The paper presents a new initialization mechanism based on a Convex Combination Method (CCM) for Kohonen self-organizing Neural Networks (NNs) realized in the CMOS technology. A proper selection of initial values of the neuron weights exhibits a strong imp ...

Elsevier Science Inc2015

Avalanche noise diodes: A compact circuit model compatible with advanced CAD tools

Christian Enz, Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Gabriele Tasselli

This paper proposes, for the first time, a compact model for avalanche noise diodes that can easily be inserted in advanced CAD tools. The model is based on the theory of the Read type microwave avalanche diodes. It fully accounts for the electronic tuning ...

IEEE2015

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF GNSS AS NAVIGATION SYSTEM TO REACH THE MOON

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano

Reaching the Moon poses very strict requirements in terms of performance, flexibility and cost for all the spacecraft subsystems. These requirements become more stringent if the mission is designed to be accomplished using a small spacecraft. The navigatio ...

Elsevier2015

Design Methodology for Controlled-Q Resonators in OTA-based Filters

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Saeed Ghamari, Gabriele Tasselli

This paper presents a design methodology for high quality factor resonators based on operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) employed in active filters. The quality factor of a resonator, as its main specification, is translated to the requirements of ...

IEEE2015

GPS-based orbital filter to reach the moon

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano

Nowadays, global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) are used for many new applications that go further than the original goal of providing position, velocity and timing for land, maritime and air applications. In particular, GNSS receivers have been adop ...

2015

A New Estimation Algorithm for the GNSS-R Interference Pattern Technique: The Segmented Maximum-Likelihood

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

During the last years, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) reflectometry (GNSS-R) receivers have proven in several field experiments that GNSS signals reflected and scattered from the Earth’s surface can be used in passive remote sensing application ...

2015

Method of real-time regulation compliance for wireless transmitters

Pierre-André Farine, Mitko Tanevski, Alexis Boegli

All wireless devices must comply with the local radio regulations which are set by international and national regulatory bodies such as the European Telecommunication Standardization Institute (ETSI) for Europe and the Federal Commission for Communication ...

2015

CPT Cesium-Cell Atomic Clock Operation With a 12-mW Frequency Synthesizer ASIC

Steve Tanner, Pierre-André Farine, Yazhou Zhao

In this paper, we present the design, fabrication, and electrical characterization of a low-power microwave source for interrogation of cesium atomic hyperfine transition frequency using the coherent population trapping (CPT) technique. The 4.6-GHz frequen ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

A Wide Tuning Range 4th-Order Gm-C Elliptic Filter for Wideband Multi-Standards GNSS Receivers

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Saeed Ghamari, Gabriele Tasselli

A 4 th order Gm-C elliptic low-pass filter with a wide continuous tuning range is presented. The continuous tuning is achieved by means of a new tuning circuit which adjusts the bias current of the Gm cell's input stage to control the cut-off frequency. Wi ...

IEEE2015

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