Re-thinking analog integrated circuits in digital terms: A new design concept for the IoT era

P Toledo, R Rubino, F Musolino… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A steady trend towards the design of mostly-digital and digital-friendly analog circuits,
suitable to integration in mainstream nanoscale CMOS by a highly automated design flow …

Rail to rail icmr and high performance ulv standard-cell-based comparator for biomedical and iot applications

R Della Sala, F Centurelli, G Scotti, G Palumbo - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper a novel ultra-low voltage (ULV) standard-cell-based comparator which provides
rail-to-rail input common-mode range (ICMR) is presented. The topology, unlike the others in …

Rail-to-rail dynamic voltage comparator scalable down to pW-range power and 0.15-V supply

O Aiello, P Crovetti, P Toledo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultra-low voltage, ultra-low power rail-to-rail dynamic voltage comparator solely based on
digital standard cells is presented. Thanks to its digital nature, the comparator can be …

A 0.5-V fully synthesizable SAR ADC for on-chip distributed waveform monitors

JE Park, YH Hwang, DK Jeong - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fully synthesizable successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-
to-digital converter (ADC) for on-chip distributed waveform monitoring in a low-power system …

[HTML][HTML] A novel standard-cell-based implementation of the digital OTA suitable for automatic place and route

G Palumbo, G Scotti - Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a novel implementation of a digital-based Operational
Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) which has been recently introduced in the technical …

Standard cell-based ultra-compact DACs in 40-nm CMOS

O Aiello, P Crovetti, M Alioto - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, very compact, standard cell-based Digital-to-Analog converters (DACs) based
on the Dyadic Digital Pulse Modulation (DDPM) are presented. As fundamental contribution …

Ultra-low power and minimal design effort interfaces for the Internet of Things

O Aiello, P Crovetti, M Alioto - 2019 IEEE International Circuits …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews the results of recent researches aimed to extend the standard-cell based
digital design flow to analog building blocks, so that to enhance scalability, reconfigurability …

Fully synthesizable low-area digital-to-analog converter with graceful degradation and dynamic power-resolution scaling

O Aiello, PS Crovetti, M Alioto - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a fully synthesizable digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is proposed. Based on
a digital standard cell approach, the proposed DAC allows very low design effort and …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic and static calibration of ultra-low-voltage, digital-based operational transconductance amplifiers

P Toledo, P Crovetti, H Klimach, S Bampi - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The calibration of the effects of process variations and device mismatch in Ultra Low Voltage
(ULV) Digital-Based Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (DB-OTAs) is addressed in …

FPGA-based relaxation D/A converters with parasitics-induced error suppression and digital self-calibration

R Rubino, PS Crovetti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the implementation on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) of Relaxation
Digital to Analog Converters (ReDACs), which take advantage of the impulse response of a …