A standard-cell-based CMFB for fully synthesizable OTAs

F Centurelli, R Della Sala, G Scotti - Journal of Low Power Electronics and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we propose a fully standard-cell-based common-mode feedback (CMFB) loop
with an explicit voltage reference to improve the CMRR of pseudo-differential standard-cell …

A differential-to-single-ended converter based on enhanced body-driven current mirrors targeting ultra-low-voltage OTAs

R Della Sala, F Centurelli, G Scotti, P Tommasino… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work, an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) technique to improve body-driven current mirrors is
proposed. The proposed technique is employed to improve the performance of conventional …

0.4-V, 81.3-nA bulk-driven single-stage CMOS OTA with enhanced transconductance

A Ballo, AD Grasso, S Pennisi - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The paper describes a single-stage operational transconductance amplifier suitable for very-
low-voltage operation in power-constrained applications. The proposed circuit avoids the tail …

0.5 V 32nW Inverter-Based Gm-C Filter for Bio-Signal Processing

A Namdari, O Aiello, DD Caviglia - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an ultra-low-power, low-voltage universal multi-mode Gm-C filter,
designed in CMOS technology. The proposed filter uses only three transconductance …

[HTML][HTML] An Ultra-Low-Voltage Approach to Accurately Set the Quiescent Current of Digital Standard Cells Used for Analog Design and Its Application on an Inverter …

R Della Sala, F Centurelli, G Scotti - Journal of Low Power Electronics and …, 2024 - mdpi.com
An approach to design analog building blocks based on digital standard cells is presented
in this work. By ensuring that every CMOS inverter from a standard-cell library operates with …

[HTML][HTML] A 0.5 V, 32 nW Compact Inverter-Based All-Filtering Response Modes Gm-C Filter for Bio-Signal Processing

A Namdari, O Aiello, DD Caviglia - Journal of Low Power Electronics and …, 2024 - mdpi.com
A low-power, low-voltage universal multi-mode Gm-C filter using a 180 nm TSMC
technology node is presented in this paper. The proposed filter employs only three …

Ultra-Low-Power ICs for the Internet of Things

O Aiello - Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2023 - mdpi.com
The collection of research works in this Special Issue focuses on Ultra-Low-Power (ULP)
Integrated Circuits (ICs) operating under a tight budget of power as a criterion to build …

A body‐driven rail‐to‐rail 0.3 V operational transconductance amplifier exploiting current gain stages

R Della Sala, F Centurelli, P Monsurrò… - … Journal of Circuit …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a novel topology of ultra‐low voltage (ULV) operational
transconductance amplifier (OTA), which exploits several design techniques to achieve high …

Sub-10 pa/v transconductance amplifier using 0.9 V, 32 nm carbon nanotube field effect transistor

SK Tripathi, AM Joshi - Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 2022 - World Scientific
This paper attempts to propose a pico-A/V transconductance amplifier using carbon
nanotube-FETs. It presents agm reduction technique which depends on the gain factor of the …

Capacitance-to-digital converter in dual-mode logic: power consumption vs conversion time trade-off

O Aiello, P Crovetti - Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 2023 - Springer
This paper deals with the trade-off between conversion time and power in nW-power
capacitance-to-digital converters (CDCs). The CDC used in this work operates at nW power …