Publications related to Instrumentation amplifier

A Two-Wired High Input Impedance and High CMRR Active Electrode Insensitive to Component Mismatch

This article proposes a new two-wired amplifying active electrode (AE), presenting a high input impedance and a high common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR). In the proposed structure, the input impedance and the CMRR of the system are considerably increased by ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Amorphous Silicon Based Microchannel Plates for Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography

Samira Alexandra Frey

Microchannel plates fabricated from hydrogenated amorphous silicon (AMCPs) are a promising alternative to conventional lead glass microchannel plates. Their main advantages lie in their cheaper and more flexible fabrication processes, allowing for adaptabl ...

EPFL2023

Integrated Electronics for Deep Implants to Remotely Monitor Hemodynamics

Mustafa Besirli

The integration of technology in the medical field has greatly improved accuracy in diagnoses, thus leading to more effective treatments. Wearable and implantable medical devices offer great potential for remote patient monitoring, particularly for heart f ...

EPFL2023

A Capacitively-Coupled Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier for Implantable Bridge Sensor Systems

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

This paper presents an energy and area efficient capacitively-coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) dedicated to implantable bridge sensor systems. Chopper stabilization is employed to decrease its offset and 1/f noise and the resulting ripple d ...

IEEE2022

A Delta Sigma-Modulated Sample and Average Common-Mode Feedback Technique for Capacitively Coupled Amplifiers in a 192-nW Acoustic Analog Front-End

Kyojin Choo

This work presents an acoustic analog front-end based on a delta sigma-modulated sample and average common-mode feedback technique. The proposed feedback offers a process and temperature stable high pass (HP) frequency corner, unity dc feedback gain, and a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

An Energy-Efficient Bridge-to-Digital Converter for Implantable Pressure Monitoring Systems

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli, Franco Maloberti

This paper presents an energy-efficient, duty-cycled, and spinning excitation bridge-to-digital converter (BDC) designed for implantable pressure sensing systems. The circuit provides the measure of the pulmonary artery pressure that is particularly releva ...

2022

Blumino: The First Fully Integrated Analog SiPM With On-Chip Time Conversion

Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean, Emanuele Ripiccini, Andrada Alexandra Muntean, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Blumino is the first analog silicon photomultiplier with integrated amplifier, comparator and time-to-digital converter (TDC). The combination of a photodetector together with on-chip readout circuitry enables system-level advantages, such as internal para ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

An 8-Bit 800 MS/s Loop-Unrolled SAR ADC With Common-Mode Adaptive Background Offset Calibration in 28 nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a low-power single-channel 8-bit loop-unrolled (LU) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) with a novel common-mode adaptive background comparator offset calibration scheme. LU-SAR ADCs use multiple co ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

An AC-Coupled Wideband Neural Recording Front-End With Sub-1 mm2×fJ/conv-step Efficiency and 0.97 NEF

Volkan Cevher, Yusuf Leblebici, Arda Uran

This letter presents an energy-and-area-efficient ac-coupled front-end for the multichannel recording of wideband neural signals. The proposed unit conditions local held and action potentials using an inverter-based capacitively coupled low-noise amplifier ...

2020

Analysis of Large-Signal Output Capacitance of Transistors using Sawyer–Tower Circuit

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Georgios Kampitsis, Jessy Anthony Ançay

A detailed analysis on the Sawyer–Tower method used in the measurement of large-signal output capacitance (Co) of power transistors is presented, followed by important design recommendations to obtain accurate results. Key factors affecting the proper impl ...

2020

On the effect of linear feedback and parametric pumping on a resonator's frequency stability

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

Resonant sensors based on micro- and nano-electro mechanical systems (M/NEMS) are ubiquitous in many sensing applications due to their outstanding performance capabilities, which are directly proportional to the quality factor (Q) of the devices. We addres ...

2020

Comparison of Different Precision Pseudo Resistor Realizations in the DC-Feedback of Capacitive Transimpedance Amplifiers

Georg Fantner, Jens Anders

In this paper, three different pseudo resistor (PR) realizations are compared regarding their noise and linearity performance within the DC feedback loop of an integrator-differentiator transimpedance amplifier (I-D-TIA). Thanks to its intrinsic shot noise ...

IEEE2019

On the Differential Input Impedance of an Electro-Explosive Device

In this paper, a model for the input impedance of a hot-wire electro-explosive device (EED) based on differential-mode measurements is proposed. The model represents the EED using three transmission line segments in cascade. The characteristics of each seg ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

An integrator-differentiator TIA using a multi-element pseudo-resistor in its DC servo loop for enhanced noise performance

Georg Fantner, Jens Anders

In this paper, we present an integrator-differentiator transimpedance amplifier (TIA) featuring a multielement pseudo-resistor (MEPR) in the DC feedback path for improved noise performance in the presence of non-zero DC input currents. The presented protot ...

IEEE2018

A 10b SAR ADC with Widely Scalable Sampling Rate and AGC Amplifier Front-End

Seyed Armin Tajalli, Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a low power successive approximation register (SAR) ADC and its front-end automatic gain control (AGC) amplifier designed in 65nm CMOS technology. Digitally controlled variable gain amplifier (VGA) in AGC loop is used to maximize the dy ...

IEEE2018

Frequency Comb Stabilization of Ultrafast Lasers by Opto-Optical Modulation of Semiconductors

Sargis Hakobyan

In this paper, we review the current state and discuss new developments in opto-optical modulation (OOM) of semiconductor elements for frequency comb self-referenced stabilization of ultrafast lasers. This method has been successfully used for carrier-enve ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

184 mu W ultrasonic on-off keying/amplitude-shift keying demodulator for downlink communication in deep implanted medical devices

Catherine Dehollain, Francesco Mazzilli

An ultrasonic on-off keying/amplitude-shift keying demodulator using standard 0.18 mu m CMOS technology is proposed, intended for recovering the identification number of an implanted medical device transmitted from an external base station. The CMOS integr ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2016

A remotely powered fully integrated low power class-E power amplifier for implantable sensor systems

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Kerim Türe

This paper presents a fully integrated low power class-E power amplifier and its integration to remotely powered sensor system. The on-chip 1.2 GHz power amplifier is implemented in 0.18 A mu m CMOS process with 0.2 V supply. The implantable system is powe ...

Springer2016

CMOS ASIC Design of Multi-frequency Multi-constellation GNSS Front-ends

Saeed Ghamari

With the emergence of the new global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) such as Galileo, COMPASS and GLONASS, the US Global Positioning System (GPS) has new competitors. This multiplicity of constellations will offer new services and a much better satell ...

EPFL2016

Electrical characterization of a buckling thermal energy harvester

Paul Muralt, Emilie Catherine Sylviane Trioux

This paper presents the electrical characterizations of a novel concept for thermal energy harvesting at micro scale. The devices presented here are based on a two-step transduction combining thermo-mechanical and piezoelectric conversion. The piezoelectri ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015