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Carlos Aristóteles de la

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Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación

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ISC. Institute of Smart Cities

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  • PublicationOpen Access
    Low-power wide-bandwidth CMOS indirect current feedback instrumentation amplifier
    (Elsevier, 2020) Carrillo, Juan M.; Domínguez, Miguel Á.; Pérez Aloe, Raquel; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la; Duque Carrillo, J. Francisco; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren
    The analysis and design trade-offs of a simple and economical technique to implement wideband low-voltage CMOS instrumentation amplifiers (IAs) based on indirect current feedback (ICF), are described. The input and an output transconductors consist of two super-source-followers and a resistor. As a result, the overall performance of the IA is enhanced. A thorough analysis of the proposed technique provided valuable insight on its operation. Two different realizations in 0.35-μm CMOS technology of an IA operating with a supply voltage of 3 V, are presented. In particular, a wide bandwidth single-stage IA with fixed voltage gain equal to 50 V/V and a low-power two-stage IA with externally programmable voltage gain, have been designed and characterized by extensive simulations. The simulated results of both circuits showed an improved response in terms of bandwidth, noise and power consumption, while their overall performance is comparable to other proposed approaches in terms of common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) and linearity (THD).
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    0.6-V CMOS bulk-driven instrumentation amplifier for IoMT bioimpedance analysis
    (Wiley, 2024) Carrillo, Juan M.; Ocampo-Hidalgo, Juan J.; Corbacho, Israel; Cruz Blas, Carlos Aristóteles de la; Domínguez, Miguel Á.; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoa eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritza; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC
    An instrumentation amplifier (IA), aimed at wideband bioimpedance analysisin the low-voltage low-power scenario of internet of medical things (IoMT), ispresented. The operation principle is based on the indirect current feedbacktechnique, where an input and a feedback transconductor determine thevoltage gain of the preamplifier. The required transconductors consist of twobulk-driven flipped-voltage-follower cells and an active pseudo-resistor, thusleading to a linear and compact implementation. The circuit has been designedand fabricated in 180 nm CMOS technology to operate with a 0.6-V supply.Experimental results obtained from measurements on eight samples of thesilicon prototype show that when the IA is programmed to have a nominalvoltage gain of 11 V/V, the bandwidth is 316.2 kHz, the CMRR exceeds63 dB, and the maximum output voltage that can be processed with a THDbelow –40 dB is 555 mVpp.