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A time-domain-based amplifier concept is proposed to obtain high-voltage gains with low power consumption and at an ultra-low supply voltage of 0.35 V. A prototype instrumentation amplifier designed using the proposed technique in the 180 nm technology consumes 210 nW of power and 0.1 mm2 of the active area.
An ultra low-power fast charge preamplifier implemented in 0.35 μm CMOS technology for ion detector readout for space operation is presented. For a 10 pF sensor capacitance, the preamplifier achieves a peaking time of 4.5 ns and pulse-pair resolution (PPR) of 15 ns for an input charge between 50 fC and 5 pC. It operates in a temperature range between -40°C and 85°C.
Recent advances in ultra-low-power circuits and energy harvesters are making self-powered body sensor nodes a reality. Power optimization at the system and application level is crucial in achieving ultra-low-power consumption for the entire system. This paper reviews system-level power optimization techniques, and illustrates their impact on the case of autonomous wireless EMG monitoring. The resulting...
More than a decade of research in the field of thermal, motion, and vibrational energy scavenging has yielded increasing power output and smaller embodiments. Power management circuits for rectification and DC-DC conversion are becoming able to efficiently convert the power from these energy scavengers. This paper summarizes recent energy scavenging results and their power management circuits.
Traditionally, most of the sensor interfaces must be tailored towards a specific application. This design approach is inflexible and requires several iteration steps for new sensor applications. It usually results in high costs for low and medium quantity market products. On the other hand, generic interface design reduces the costs and may provide a handy solution for multisensor applications. This...
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