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±0.3v bulk-driven fully differential buffer with high figures of merit
A high performance bulk-driven rail-to-rail fully differential buffer operating from ±0.3V supplies in 180 nm CMOS technology is reported. It has a differential–difference input stage and common mode feedback circuits ... -
A 1.2-V current-mode RMS-to-DC converter based on a novel two-quadrant electronically simulated MOS translinear loop
A novel current-mode CMOS RMS-to-DC converter using translinear techniques is introduced. It is based on a squarer/divider cell that is implemented using an electronically simulated loop with a novel biasing scheme that ... -
360 nW gate-driven ultra-low voltage CMOS linear transconductor with 1 MHz bandwidth and wide input range
A low voltage linear transconductor is introduced. The circuit is a pseudo differential architecture that operates with ±0.2V supplies and uses 900nA total biasing current. It employs a floating battery technique to achieve ... -
AC amplifiers with ultra-low corner frequency by using bootstrapping
A novel architecture for an AC (i.e. high-pass) amplifier is proposed allowing a drastic reduction of the cutoff frequency to the sub-Hertz range. It builds upon the classic AC configuration with a high gain amplifier and ... -
AC coupled amplifier with a resistance multiplier technique for ultra-low frequency operation
This paper proposes a novel, tunable AC coupled capacitive feedback amplifier, exhibiting an ultra-low high pass corner frequency. This is accomplished by actively boosting the output resistive value of a MOS transistor ... -
Analog lock-in amplifier design using subsampling for accuracy enhancement in GMI sensor applications
A frequency downscaling technique for enhancing the accuracy of analog lock-in amplifier (LIA) architectures in giant magneto-impedance (GMI) sensor applications is presented in this paper. As a proof of concept, the ... -
Energy-efficient amplifiers based on quasi-floating gate techniques
Energy efficiency is a key requirement in the design of amplifiers for modern wireless applications. The use of quasi-floating gate (QFG) transistors is a very convenient approach to achieve such energy efficiency. We ... -
An enhanced gain-bandwidth class-AB miller op-amp with 23,800 MHz pF/mW FOM, 11-16 current efficiency and wide range of resistive and capacitive loads driving capability
A compact power-efficient class-AB Miller op-amp is introduced. It uses a simple auxiliary circuit that enhances the op-amp's gain-bandwidth product and helps to drive a wide range of capacitive and resistive loads with ... -
Enhanced single-stage folded cascode OTA suitable for large capacitive loads
An enhanced single-stage folded cascode operational transconductance amplifier able to drive large capacitive loads is presented. Circuits that adaptively bias the input differential pair and the current folding stage ... -
A family of alternating current amplifiers for ultra-low frequency operation
A family of capacitively coupled alternating current (AC) amplifiers featuring ultra-low (below 1 Hz) corner frequency is presented. This is achieved by using high-gain devices which actively boost feedback resistance and ... -
Fault detection of planetary gears based on signal space constellations
A new method to process the vibration signal acquired by an accelerometer placed in a planetary gearbox housing is proposed, which is useful to detect potential faults. The method is based on the phenomenological model and ... -
Gain-boosted super class AB OTAs based on nested local feedback
A new approach to design super class AB operational transcon-ductance amplifiers (OTAs) with enhanced large-signal and small-signal performance is presented. It is based on employing two nested positive and negative feedback ... -
Low-power ultrasonic front-end for cargo container monitoring
A low-power ultrasonic communication system conceived for cargo container monitoring is presented. Two piezoelectric transducers operating at 40 kHz are used for generating and acquiring an ultrasonic signal through the ... -
Low-voltage 0.81mW, 1-32 CMOS VGA with 5% bandwidth variations and -38dB DC rejection
A CMOS low-voltage amplifier with approximately constant bandwidth and DC rejection is introduced. The design is based on the cascade of a wide linear input range OTA, an op-amp and a servo-loop with extremely large time ... -
Micropower class AB low-pass analog filter based on the super-source follower
An improved class AB version of the super source follower is used to implement a compact and power-efficient second order analog low-pass filter. The proposed circuit achieves a 41% power reduction as well as an improvement ... -
Power-efficient single-stage class-AB OTA based on non-linear nested current mirrors
A novel approach to design low-power area-efficient rail-to-rail output single-stage class-AB operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) with enhanced large- and small-signal performance to drive large capacitive ... -
Pseudo-three-stage Miller op-amp with enhanced small-signal and large-signal performance
A simple technique to implement highly power efficient class AB-AB Miller op-amps is presented in this paper. It uses a composite input stage with resistive local common mode feedback that provides class AB operation to ... -
A review of techniques to enhance an amplifier's performance using resistive local common mode feedback
A review of some of the most common applications of the resistive local common mode feedback technique to enhance amplifier’s performance is presented. It is shown that this simple technique offers essential improvement ... -
Subsampling OFDM-based ultrasonic data communication through metallic channels for monitoring of cargo containers
An enhanced ultrasonic communication system based on piezoelectric transducers for monitoring of goods in cargo containers is presented. The proposed system consists of several sensors placed inside the container, whose ... -
Super class AB RFC OTA using non-linear current mirrors
An alternative approach to the design of super class AB recycling folded cascode operational transconductance amplifiers is proposed. Instead of using local common-mode feedback for boosting dynamic currents, simple current ...