A survey on current-mode interfaces for bio signals and sensors

M Scarsella, G Barile, V Stornelli, L Safari, G Ferri - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this study, a review of second-generation voltage conveyor (VCII) and current conveyor
(CCII) circuits for the conditioning of bio signals and sensors is presented. The CCII is the …

Sub-femto-farad resolution electronic interfaces for integrated capacitive sensors: A review

U Ferlito, AD Grasso, S Pennisi, M Vaiana… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capacitance detection is a universal transduction mechanism used in a wide variety of
sensors and applications. It requires an electronic front-end converting the capacitance …

Bandwidth-enhanced oversampling successive approximation readout technique for low-noise power-efficient MEMS capacitive accelerometer

L Zhong, J Yang, D Xu, X Lai - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The bandwidth-enhanced oversampling successive approximation (BE-OSA) readout
technique is proposed in this article to reduce the noise floor of the readout circuit for micro …

Autobalancing analog front end for full-range differential capacitive sensing

A Depari, E Sisinni, A Flammini, G Ferri… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The authors here propose an analog interface for differential capacitance estimation, able to
reveal and quantify capacitive variations. Different from other works in the literature, the …

An energy-efficient miniaturized intracranial pressure monitoring system

MM Ghanbari, JM Tsai, A Nirmalathas… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A miniaturized pressure-sensing microsystem targeting intracranial pressure monitoring is
presented. The system takes full advantage of Invensense MEMS-CMOS process to …

Full range analog Wheatstone bridge‐based automatic circuit for differential capacitance sensor evaluation

G Ferri, V Stornelli, FR Parente… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, an integrable novel fully analog Wheatstone bridge‐based interface for
differential capacitance estimation is presented. Its working principle takes advantage of the …

[HTML][HTML] A VCII-based stray insensitive analog interface for differential capacitance sensors

G Barile, L Safari, G Ferri, V Stornelli - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a novel approach to implement a stray insensitive CMOS interface for
differential capacitive sensors is presented. The proposed circuit employs, for the first time …

A capacitance-to-time converter-based electronic interface for differential capacitive sensors

A De Marcellis, C Reig, MD Cubells-Beltrán - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper we present an oscillating conditioning circuit, operating a capacitance-to-time
conversion, which is suitable for the readout of differential capacitive sensors. The simple …

Oversampling successive approximation technique for MEMS differential capacitive sensor

L Zhong, X Lai, D Xu - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposed an oversampling successive approximation (OSSA) technique to build
switched-capacitor capacitance-to-voltage convertor (SC-CVC) for readout circuit of MEMS …

A closed-loop capacitance-to-frequency converter for single-element and differential capacitive sensors

L Areekath, B George, F Reverter - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel closed-loop switched-capacitor (SC) capacitance-to-frequency converter (CFC) is
presented in this article. The proposed CFC is capable of measuring from either a single …