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Planar photonic gyros have a crucial enabling role in many areas of spacecraft engineering, due to their important characteristics, such as small size and weight, reduced driving power and high reliability and overall performance. For these reasons, they are currently the topic of a quickly increasing research effort. This effort is critically reviewed in this paper where the new patented concept...
This paper describes the architecture of a wearable, wireless embedded system for the Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) assessment in ordinary dynamic movements, such as a fluid gait. In this context, the EMG analysis can provide information about the nerves status by estimating the linked Muscle Fiber Conduction Velocity (MFCV). The system operates with synchronized and digitized data samples...
This paper introduces a new approach to detect multiple inputs for touchless human machine interfaces. It is based on optical proximity sensing with visible or infrared light. It is described the principle of modulation, demodulation and system design. In the last part, some applications are presented to use this approach. The approach is based on multiple modulated light sources. The modulation is...
A 3rd-order 132MHz cut-off frequency low-pass filter in 28nm CMOS-bulk technology is presented. Challenges related to the design of analog circuits in 28nm CMOS-bulk process node have been faced and mitigated operating at both architecture and circuit design level. The filter is based on an improved Active-gm-RC structure, where both poles of a Miller-compensated Opamp have been used for synthesizing...
The need for diagnostic tools for the characterization of progressive movement disorders — as the Parkinson Disease (PD) — aiming to early detect and monitor the pathology is getting more and more impelling. The parallel request of wearable and wireless solutions, for the real-time monitoring in a non-controlled environment, has led to the implementation of a Quantitative Gait Analysis platform for...
VFAT3 is the last version of a family of multichannel trigger and tracking ASICs designed for the upgrade of the CMS experiment in the LHC. The chip has been developed to provide fast trigger information from the readout of gas particle detectors improving the resolution of the time measurement. The VFAT3 architecture comprises 128 analog channels, each one composed by a low noise and low power charge...
The ALICE Collaboration is preparing a major upgrade of the experimental apparatus, planned for installation in the second long LHC shutdown m the years 2019–2020. The key element of the ALICE upgrade is the construction of the new high resolution Inner Tracking System (ITS). It will be made of seven concentric detector layers based on a 50μm thick CMOS pixel sensor with a pixel pitch of 30 × 30 μm...
A 32-channel ASIC has been designed and fabricated in a standard 0.35 μm CMOS technology for the read-out of Gas Electron Multiplier detectors to be used for beam monitoring in hadron therapy applications. Each analog channel is based on the classic CSA+shaper architecture, followed by a peak detector which works as an analog memory during the read-out phase. An analog multiplexer routes the outputs...
The article describes a low-cost and open IoT platform for rural applications in developing countries. Using the latest low-power, long-range radio technologies and off-the-shelves components, the platform can be quickly deployed and customized for a large variery of rural applications. We present in the article how a low-cost IoT collar device especially addressing the cattle rustling issues can...
Recen% developed near W-photosensors are currently adopted in those applications where high sensitivity and good imaging capabilities are required, especially in fields such as astroparticle physics and medical imaging. An example of such applications is the camera of the Schwarzschild Couder Medium Size Telescope prototype (pSCT) which is in construction within the Cherenkov Telescope Array experiment...
Nowadays detectors based on Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) technology are widely used in High Energy Physics. Thanks to their excellent spatial and time resolution, high particle rate capability and a close to 100% detection efficiency, GEM detectors meet all requirements for the upgrade of the CMS end cap. 144 large area trapezoidal triple-GEM detectors will be installed in 2019 in the first station...
A SpV-resolution RFID ECoG data reader bas been designed and implemented in 65nm CMOS TSMC technology. The area occupancy is 1.8mm×l.9mm. In this paper, the design and measurement results are shown. The circuit average power consumption is less than 36μW for the analog part while the peak power of the digital one is 19mW (including the output buffers and protections) with supply of 1.2V, providing...
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