• 0.6-V 1.65-uW second-order Gm-C bandpass filter for multi-frequency bioimpedance analysis based on a bootstrapped bulk-driven voltage buffer 

      Carrillo, Juan M.; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2022)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      A bootstrapping technique used to increase the intrinsic voltage gain of a bulk-driven MOS transistor is described in this paper. The proposed circuit incorporates a capacitor and a cutoff transistor to be connected to ...
    • A 1.2-V current-mode RMS-to-DC converter based on a novel two-quadrant electronically simulated MOS translinear loop 

      Martincorena Arraiza, Maite Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; Algueta-Miguel, Jose M. Upna Orcid; López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2020)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 ...
    • AC amplifiers with ultra-low corner frequency by using bootstrapping 

      Martincorena Arraiza, Maite Upna Orcid; Carlosena García, Alfonso Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2021)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 

      Martincorena Arraiza, Maite Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; Carlosena García, Alfonso Upna Orcid; López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid (Elsevier, 2022)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 ...
    • Bulk-driven CMOS linear transconductance-cell for AC amplifiers with very low cut-off frequency 

      Ocampo-Hidalgo, Juan J.; Domínguez, Miguel Á.; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; Carrillo, Juan M. (Elsevier, 2023)   Artículo / Artikulua
      This manuscript proposes a novel linearized transconductor for AC amplifiers with a very low cut-off frequency. The cell uses an alternative solution that is based on a modified source-degeneration OTA, using two bulkdriven ...
    • Enhanced single-stage folded cascode OTA suitable for large capacitive loads 

      López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid; Garde Luque, María Pilar Upna Orcid; Algueta-Miguel, Jose M. Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; Carvajal, Ramón G.; Ramírez-Angulo, Jaime (IEEE, 2018)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 

      Martincorena Arraiza, Maite Upna Orcid; Carlosena García, Alfonso Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; Beloso Legarra, Javier Upna Orcid; López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid (Wiley, 2021)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 

      Martincorena Arraiza, Maite Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid; Molina Vicuña, Cristian; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2022)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 

      Beloso Legarra, Javier Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid; Ramírez-Angulo, Jaime (IEEE, 2021)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 

      Algueta-Miguel, Jose M. Upna Orcid; García Oya, José Ramón; López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; Muñoz Chavero, Fernando; Hidalgo Fort, Eduardo (IEEE, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 ...
    • Micropower class AB low-pass analog filter based on the super-source follower 

      Martincorena Arraiza, Maite Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid; Carlosena García, Alfonso Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2022)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 

      Beloso Legarra, Javier Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; López Martín, Antonio Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2023)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      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 ...
    • Very-low frequency capacitively coupled AC amplifier with a current feedback operational amplifier 

      Beloso Legarra, Javier Upna Orcid; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la Upna Orcid; Carlosena García, Alfonso Upna Orcid; Martincorena Arraiza, Maite Upna Orcid (Wiley, 2023)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this paper, we propose the idea of using transimpedance amplifiers, in lieu of operational amplifiers (OAs) or transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) to design capacitively coupled AC amplifiers. The idea is demonstrated ...

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