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An original and modern integrated current sensor is designed and presented in this paper. It can provide a sense current proportional to an output current available to the microcontroller via an external resistor. The ratio between output and sense current is modeled and simulated. The errors between the two currents increase in low currents domain. A solution consisting in a gate back regulation...
A U-band oscillator is presented as a divide-by-two direct injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD), with NMOS injection transistors coupled to the LC oscillator. Compared with the both NMOS and PMOS injection transistors, the NMOS only injection transistors contribute to a much wider locking range. The strategy to choose the structure and sizes of the injection transistors for symmetry and the locking...
The main purpose of this paper is to introduce an ultracompact device for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection based on a bipolar metal oxide silicon (BIMOS) transistor merged with a dual back-to-back silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) for bulk and for ultrathin body box fully depleted (FD)-silicon on insulator (SOI) advanced CMOS technologies in the hybrid bulk thanks to process co-integration...
Multilevel inverters allow to generate AC voltages with low total harmonic distortion (THD) but requires an increased number of power switches. One of the disadvantages of that is the increased probability of a fault in one of the power switches. Thus in order to improve the reliability of the converter a fast and robust fault detection scheme must be used. In this context this paper presents a new...
Multiport CMOS cell with the soft-error immunity based on DICE which is divided into two spaced groups of transistors each of them consisting of four transistors. The larger the distance between these two CMOS transistor groups, a multiport SRAM is more hardened to single event upsets. The result of a single nuclear particle strike only on the one transistor group of a DICE trigger is a single-event...
Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital converter (ADC), is widely used in portable electronic products. An operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is one of the most important components of this ADC. This paper reports a new design of low power fully differential OTA. In this design authors have used adaptive biasing technique and DC gain enhancement technique for improving design parameters as compared...
In this paper, a simple filter topology that can be used to implement first-order MOS-only allpass filter is proposed. The proposed MOS-only allpass filter offers inherently very accurate magnitude and phase characteristics at very high frequencies. However, MOS-only active filter suffers from an inherent low frequency limitation. In order to address this issue, the modification technique allowing...
In this paper, a new Ultra low voltage (ULV) logic circuit based on the floating gate structure is presented. In this technique we utilized the bulks of the transistors to speed up the circuit. Using the proposed method, the speed of the circuit enhances by connecting the bulks of the evaluating and recharge devices to the clock, power supply (VDD) and input signals. The simulation results for the...
A new three phase three transistor voltage source inverter has recently appeared in the literature which has attractive features compared to the conventional voltage source inverter topologies. In particular, it requires a less number of costly switching devices, such as high performance transistors. This inexpensive design is considered to be advantageous in medium to high power application requiring...
In this work, new design techniques that aim to reduce power consumption of true single-phase clock-based (TSPC) prescalers is presented. The structure of divide-by-4/5 frequency divider is simplified, and its performance is compared with previous work to demonstrate the improvement. Simulation results show at least a 25% reduction of power consumption is achieved by the proposed unit. In the 32/33...
In this paper a novel CMOS latch is designed using a class-AB transconductor as a core. The static latch behavior is studied using a homotopy method which allows highlighting sufficient conditions for the transconductor to become a latch. These last conditions are general and can be used for the design of new latches and comparators. The proposed latch features high speed together with high power...
In this paper different output stage topologies for DC-DC buck converters in 65 nm CMOS technology operating in Pulse Width Modulation - Discontinuous Conduction Mode for battery voltages up to 5 V are compared. The paper shows which parameters of the power transistors have to be considered for highly efficient DC-DC buck converter designs. Furthermore the different output stage topologies are compared...
Successive approximation analog-to-digital converters are very attractive to power-constrained applications due to the topology inherent energy efficiency. This converter architecture most often relies on digital controller circuit to guide the conversion algorithm, and this controller is reported to have an important impact on the overall power consumption, sometimes demanding roughly half the total...
Asynchronous circuits are well known for their intrinsic robustness to process, voltage and temperature variations. Nevertheless, in some extreme cases, it appears that their robustness is not sufficient to guarantee a correct circuit behavior. This limitation, which is caused by an analog phenomenon, appears when the transition slopes in input of C-elements become very slow. This paper describes...
Three CMOS realizations of fully differential current followers (amplifiers) are presented. Their various characteristics are determined and evaluated. In general, the proposed circuits exhibit low input resistances, high output resistances, and low common-mode gains. However, interesting differences showing the advantages and disadvantages of each topology are highlighted. Simulation results obtained...
A new frequency compensation technique for low-power, area-efficient multistage amplifiers is introduced in this work. By utilizing active capacitors to realize the compensation network in a nested way, two inverting gain stages can be used as the second and third gain-stages. The proposed scheme reaches better bandwidth-to-power and slew-rate-to-power performances comparing to the ever published...
This paper discusses the design of a 60 GHz low noise amplifier (LNA) using a standard low power SOI CMOS process from ST Microelectronics. First, we outline the technology as well as the mm-wave design challenges. Using recent work on coplanar waveguide (CPW) modeling, we describe how it's possible to use parametric, 3D electromagnetic simulation to complete or replace analytical models of on-chip...
This paper compares readout powers and operating frequencies among dual-port SRAMs: an 8T SRAM, 10T single-end SRAM, and 10T differential SRAM. The conventional 8T SRAM has the least transistor count, and is the most area efficient. However, the readout power becomes large and the cycle time increases due to peripheral circuits. The 10T single-end SRAM is our proposed SRAM, in which a dedicated inverter...
This paper describes a comparative analysis between two topologies of operational amplifiers to design a 40 MS/s 12-bit pipeline analog to digital converter (ADC). The analysis includes AC and transient simulation to select the proper topology. This ADC is implemented in a 0.35 mum AMS CMOS technology with 3.3 V single power supply. The capacitors and selected operational amplifiers were scaled for...
Class D amplifiers are becoming the most feasible solution for embedded audio application. However, distortions due to the non-linear nature of switching stage are the main drawback for this amplifier topology. This paper discusses the design and implementation of high fidelity audio class D using sliding mode control scheme. This design method proves to be a cost effective solution for industrial...
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