# IET Circuits, Devices & Systems

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• ### 3–10 GHz noise-cancelling CMOS LNA using gm-boosting technique

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):12 - 16
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An ultra-wideband (UWB) low-noise amplifier (LNA) using a 0.11 μm CMOS technology is proposed. The common-gate (CG) input stage for wideband input impedance matching and the common-source (CS) stage for noise cancelling are applied. In the proposed LNA, the current of the CG input stage can be significantly reduced by applying the gm-boosting technique using the noise-canc... View full abstract»

• ### Design of high-speed, low-power, and area-efficient FIR filters

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1 - 11
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In a recent work, we have introduced a new multiple constant multiplication (MCM) algorithm, denoted as RADIX-2r. The latter exhibits the best results in speed and power, comparatively with the most prominent algorithms. In this paper, the area aspect of RADIX-2r is more specially investigated. RADIX-2r is confronted to area efficient algorithms, notably to the cum... View full abstract»

• ### Charge sharing write driver and half-$V_{{rm DD}}$VDD pre-charge 8T SRAM with virtual ground for low-power write and read operation

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):94 - 98
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A novel write bitline (BL) charge sharing write driver (CSWD) and a half-VDD read BL (RBL) pre-charge scheme is presented for a single-ended 8T static random access memory (SRAM). Before write enable (WE) signal assertion, CSWD equalises the write BLs by allowing their charge sharing. Both write BLs are equalised at the middle value of supply voltage using leakage current compensation b... View full abstract»

• ### Ultra-low-power, high PSRR CMOS voltage reference with negative feedback

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):535 - 542
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Based on negative feedback technique, a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) voltage reference with ultra-low-power, low supply voltage and high-power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) is proposed and simulated using a 0.18 standard micrometre CMOS technology. The operating supply voltage ranges from 0.85 V to 2.5 V and the temperature ranges from -20°C to 80°C. The voltage ref... View full abstract»

• ### Six-bit, reusable comparator stage-based asynchronous binary-search SAR ADC using smart switching network

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):124 - 131
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A reusable comparator stage-based asynchronous binary-search Successive Approximation Register (SAR) analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) with a smart reference range prediction network is presented in this brief. The proposed architecture has an advantageous merit of using only N comparators in comparison with original binary-search ADC and flash ADC. The design uses selection logic which s... View full abstract»

• ### Design of rectenna series-association circuits for radio frequency energy harvesting in CMOS FD-SOI 28 nm

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):40 - 49
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Series-connected rectenna associations are proposed to improve the harvesting performance of conventional rectenna circuits by recovering power from different directions. With an available input power of -20 dBm, post-layout simulations evaluated the total output power of four series-connected rectennas designed in Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (CMOS F... View full abstract»

• ### Low-voltage fully differential difference transconductance amplifier

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):73 - 81
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A new complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) structure for fully differential difference transconductance amplifier (FDDTA) is presented in this study. Thanks to using the non-conventional quasi-floating-gate (QFG) technique the circuit is capable to work under low-voltage supply of 0.6 V with extended input voltage range and with class AB output stages. The QFG multiple-input metal-oxide-... View full abstract»

• ### Low-power 10-bit 100 MS/s pipelined ADC in digital CMOS technology

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):589 - 596
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A 10-bit pipelined analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) at a sampling rate of 100 MS/s utilising only metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors is presented and designed in 1.8 V 0.18 μm standard digital complementary MOS (CMOS) n-well technology. The internal gain of value 2 of the intermediate stages is achieved by using a charge-pump-based concept that avoids the use of power-are... View full abstract»

• ### Low-jitter DLL applied for two-segment TDC

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):17 - 24
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A low-jitter delay-locked loop (DLL) for high-resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) is proposed in this study. The generated high accurate and low-jitter outputs with uniformly distributed multiphase clocks directly from the voltage-controlled delay line (VCDL) in DLL are applied to two-segment TDC. For reducing the static phase offset in locked state, the charge pump with interior feedback l... View full abstract»

• ### Low-jitter spread spectrum clock generator using charge pump frequency detector in 0.18 μm CMOS for USB3.1 transceivers

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):99 - 107
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This study presents a spread spectrum clock generator (SSCG) circuit for high-speed applications. The proposed SSCG adopts a phased locked loop with two dual voltage-controlled oscillators and a frequency modulation loop implemented with a novel control unit to achieve the desired spectrum-spreading profile. The control unit consists of an analogue charge pump-based frequency comparator that can d... View full abstract»

• ### RC oscillators based on high-Q frequency-selecting network

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):82 - 87
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In this study, a traditional voltage-mode oscillator consisting of a high-Q band-pass filter and a voltage amplifier is transformed into a current-mode oscillator employing a trans-conductance amplifier. Furthermore, a current-mode quadrature oscillator with a high-Q band-pass filter and second generation current-controlled conveyors (CCCIIs) is presented. Since the loop of the oscil... View full abstract»

• ### Accurate performance evaluation of VLSI designs with selected CMOS process parameters

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):116 - 123
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As process monitors have become vital components in modern very-large-scale integration (VSLI) designs, performance targets often determine the physical implementation of such monitors. However, as various process and environmental parameters collectively affect circuit behaviour, the design of process monitors can be difficult. In addition, process parameters from device-level models may not prov... View full abstract»

• ### Comparative study of 16-order FIR filter design using different multiplication techniques

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):196 - 200
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This study represents designing and implementation of a low power and high speed 16 order FIR filter. To optimise filter area, delay and power, different multiplication techniques such as Vedic multiplier, add and shift method and Wallace tree (WT) multiplier are used for the multiplication of filter coefficient with filter input. Various adders such as ripple carry adder, Kogge Stone adder, Brent... View full abstract»

• ### Hardware design of multiclass SVM classification for epilepsy and epileptic seizure detection

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):108 - 115
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An automatic detection system for distinguishing healthy, ictal, and inter-ictal EEG signals plays an important role in medical practice. This paper presents a very large scale integration (VLSI) architecture of three-class classification for epilepsy and seizure detection. In order to find out the most efficient three-class classification scheme for hardware implementation, several multiclass non... View full abstract»

• ### Hybrid AlGaN/GaN high-electron mobility transistor: design and simulation

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):33 - 39
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In this study, the authors propose a novel structure of high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT) with significantly improved performance. The novelty of the proposed HEMT is the realisation of two parallel induced electron layers under the source and drain electrode, one in the form of two-dimensional (2D) electron gas (2DEG) and the other in the form of charge plasma electron gas (CPEG). The prop... View full abstract»

• ### Positive feedback technique and split-length transistors for DC-gain enhancement of two-stage op-amps

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):605 - 612
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This study presents the design and simulation of a fully differential two-stage op-amp in a 0.18 μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor process with a 1.8 V supply voltage. In this op-amp, positive feedback technique and split-length transistors (SLTs) are employed to increase the DC-gain of the op-amp by about 22 dB without affecting the unity-gain bandwidth (UGBW), stability, power di... View full abstract»

• ### Short startup, batteryless, self-starting thermal energy harvesting chip working in full clock cycle

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):521 - 528
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The Internet of Things paradigm considers the deployment in the environment of a profusion of heterogeneous sensor nodes, connected in a complex network, and autonomously powered. Energy harvesting is the common proposed solution to supply such sensors, and many different sources such as light, mechanical vibrations, temperature differences can be considered individually or in combination. Specifi... View full abstract»

• ### Ultralow-power fast-transient output-capacitor-less low-dropout regulator with advanced adaptive biasing circuit

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):172 - 180
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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An ultra-low-power fast-transient output-capacitor-less low-dropout regulator (LDO) with advanced adaptive biasing (AAB) circuit is presented in this study. At light load, the AAB circuit only delivers 0.1 μA bias current to the amplifier to maintain the stability and reduce the quiescent current. At medium load to heavy load, the AAB circuit increases bias current to 2.5 μA for perf... View full abstract»

• ### Dual frequency MEMS resonator through mixed electrical and mechanical coupling scheme

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):88 - 93
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Miniaturised transceivers are essential in multiband wireless communication systems for higher data rates and low power consumption. Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonator filters are actively considered for deployment in transceivers for radio frequency and intermediate frequency (IF) signal filter and oscillator applications. In this study, the authors propose dual frequency capacitive t... View full abstract»

• ### Ultra-stable, low-noise two-stage current source concept for electronics and laser applications

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):613 - 617
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This study presents a two-stage current source concept which features low-current noise, excellent drift and stability for higher operating currents. Generally, it is much easier to obtain higher stability and lower-noise parameters for small operating currents rather than large ones. This fact was used within this concept, where a precise low-current source (the second stage) corrects the fluctua... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive $g_{m3}$gm3 cancellation linearisation and its application to wide-tunable Gm-C filter design

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):478 - 486
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This paper presents an adaptive gm3 cancellation for linearisation of operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) and its application to design of a wide tunable Gm-C filter. gm3 cancellation through paralleling triode- and subthreshold-mode transconductors makes good linearisation, but only in a limited range of tuning voltage. An auxiliary circuit is employed... View full abstract»

• ### Review on system development in eddy current testing and technique for defect classification and characterization

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):330 - 343
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Eddy current testing (ECT) is one of the non-destructive evaluation techniques widely used, especially in oil and gas industries. It characterized noisy data to the less-than-perfect detection and as an indication of serious false alarm problem. However, not many researchers have described in detail the intelligent ECT crack detection system. This paper introduces a review of ECT technique and fac... View full abstract»

• ### Mathematical modelling and simulation analysis of a modified Butterworth van Dyke circuit model for non-invasive diabetes detection

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):682 - 687
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In recent times, there is an intense need for a reliable non-invasive diabetes prediction system. Some of the researches in this field suggest that acetone gas in breath has a good correlation to blood glucose levels. Hence, acetone is emerging as a promising bio-marker in diabetes prediction. In this study, acetone levels are measured using quartz crystal microbalance sensor that has wide-scale a... View full abstract»

• ### Test and study on sensitivity of electronic circuit in low-voltage release to voltage sags

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):529 - 534
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This study focuses on sensitivity of electronic circuit in low-voltage release to voltage sags based on a large-scale test results. Although studies about ride-through capability of some electronic devices during voltage sags have been carried out, there is few research available on sensitivity of electronic circuit in low-voltage release to voltage sags. Operation principle and working states of ... View full abstract»

• ### Low-power and high-speed 13T SRAM cell using FinFETs

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):250 - 255
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Fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) are replacing the traditional planar metal-oxide-semiconductor FETs (MOSFETs) because of superior capability in controlling short channel effects, leakage current, propagation delay, and power dissipation. Planar MOSFETs face the problem of process variability but the FinFETs mitigate the device-performance variability due to number of dopant ions. This work ... View full abstract»

• ### Systematic design approach for a gain boosted telescopic OTA with cross-coupled capacitor

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):225 - 231
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A symbolic analysis is presented to study a gain-boosted telescopic operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) with cross-coupled capacitor (positive feedback) across an auxiliary op-amp. The effects of positive feedback capacitor (PFC) on the pole-zero doublet introduced by the auxiliary op-amp are explored using analytical techniques and simulations. A complete transfer function of the OTA wit... View full abstract»

• ### Is graphene a good transparent electrode for photovoltaics and display applications?

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):403 - 412
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The current standard material used for transparent electrodes in displays, touch screens and solar cells is indium tin oxide (ITO) which has low sheet resistance (10 Ω/□), high optical transmission in the visible wavelength (85%) and does not suffer of optical haze. However, ITO is mechanically rigid and incompatible with future demands for flexible applications. Graphene materials s... View full abstract»

• ### 0.5 V fully differential current conveyor using bulk-driven quasi-floating-gate technique

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):78 - 86
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This study presents a new low-voltage (LV) supply and low-power consumption bulk-driven quasi-floating-gate fully differential current conveyor (BD-QFG-FDCCII) active element which is suitable for LV signal processing applications. The bulk-driven technique is used to achieve LV supply as low as a 0.5 V and extended input voltage swing. On the other hand, the quasi-floating-gate technique is used ... View full abstract»

• ### Graphene-based biosensors: methods, analysis and future perspectives

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):434 - 445
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Graphene (GN), a single layer two-dimensional structure nanomaterial, exhibits exceptional physical, electrical and chemical properties that lead to many applications from electronics to biomedicine. The unique parameters of GN, notably its considerable electron mobility, thermal conductivity, high surface area and electrical conductivity, are bringing heightened attention into biomedical applicat... View full abstract»

• ### Double gate symmetric tunnel FET: investigation and analysis

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):365 - 370
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In this work, using calibrated 2D simulations, the authors first demonstrate that the OFF-state current and subthreshold swing (SS) are significantly high for the double gate Ge source/drain symmetric p-n-p tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) with a silicon channel without n+ pockets at the source- and drain-channel interfaces. They further establish that using $n^{+}$n+ pockets at th... View full abstract»

• ### Investigation on dynamic equalisation performance of lithium battery pack management

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):388 - 394
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Lithium batteries must be connected in series to achieve large capacity and high-power output. Battery management system (BMS), which is designed to protect battery pack from damage and increase battery life, is important in electrical power system. The present equalisation techniques have many disadvantages: The passive balancing wastes energy and generates heat, while active balancing is complex... View full abstract»

• ### Thermal image processing for real-time non-contact respiration rate monitoring

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):142 - 148
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A real-time thermal imaging based, non-contact respiration rate monitoring method was developed. It measured the respiration related skin surface temperature changes under the tip of the nose. Facial tracking was required as head movements caused the face to appear in different locations in the recorded images over time. The algorithm detected the tip of the nose and then, a region just under it w... View full abstract»

• ### Multi-resonant gate drive circuit of isolating-gate GaN HEMTs for tens of MHz

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):261 - 266
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Research of power supplies for megahertz (MHz) class applications such as a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, induction heater and wireless transfer is carried out. A liner amplifier is generally used for MHz class applications. The loss of the power devices on a liner amplifier is theoretically high. To reduce the loss, the class E and Φ2 inverters are proposed, and some of... View full abstract»

• ### Low-power CMOS variable gain amplifier based on a novel tunable transconductor

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):105 - 110
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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A CMOS variable gain amplifier (VGA) based on a novel linear and tunable triode transconductor is presented. The proposed transconductor employs local negative feedback for linearisation controlling the drain voltage of the input transistors biased in the triode region. The new design is able to operate at low supply voltage and the stability is guaranteed. The transconductor features a 47.75 dB d... View full abstract»

• ### NeuroMonitor: a low-power, wireless, wearable EEG device with DRL-less AFE

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):471 - 477
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Electroencephalography (EEG) is an effective tool to non-invasively capture brain responses. Traditional EEG analogue front end (AFE) requires a driven right leg (DRL) circuit that restricts the number of channels of the device. The authors are proposing a new `DRL-less' AFE design, and have developed a wearable EEG device (NeuroMonitor), which is small, low-power, wireless, and battery operated. ... View full abstract»

• ### Dynamics and control of voltage multiplier cells integrated boost converter

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):68 - 79
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This paper presents a reduced order sliding mode controller based on hysteresis modulation for a boost converter with single voltage multiplier cell (VMC) operating in continuous conduction mode. Although VMC integrated boost converter improves the static gain without extreme duty cycle, it increases the number of components which in turn increases the order of the system. Due to complexity in con... View full abstract»

• ### VLSI Architecture of Full-Search Variable-Block-Size Motion Estimation for HEVC Video Encoding

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):543 - 548
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Motion estimation (ME) is the most computationally intensive task in video encoding. This study proposes a full-search variable-block-size ME for the high-efficiency video coding or H.265 specification. The proposed method reduces memory requirements to a large extent by following a Morton order for data reading and a sum of absolute differences reuse strategy. The data bandwidth demand is also di... View full abstract»

• ### Modelling and performance analysis of amorphous silicon solar cell using wide band gap nc-Si:H window layer

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):666 - 675
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Poor charge transport mechanism and light-induced degradation effects are among the key factors leading to the degraded performance of single-junction amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cells. Existent photovoltaic configurations, based on amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC:H) window layer, have established efficiencies in the range of 7-10%. Limited performance of such devices has been addressed by r... View full abstract»

• ### Self-compensation scheme for truncation error in fixed width multipliers

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):55 - 62
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A novel scheme to design the hardware for error compensation function which self-compensates the truncation error of fixed width multiplier is presented. The proposed method statistically correlates the compensating carries in the truncated part with the carries generated at the truncation boundary in the non-truncated part. The method also utilises the selective dominant carry compensation for co... View full abstract»

• ### Analysis and mitigation of EMI in DC–DC converters using QR interaction

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):371 - 380
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DC-DC converters have led rapid development in electrical engineering owing to their virtuous assets in industrial field. Wide utilisation of power equipment in various arenas has led to stringent electromagnetic interference (EMI) and this issue is more common in DC-DC converters. In this study, a method has been put forward to mitigate EMI in peak current mode controlled elementary DC-DC convert... View full abstract»

• ### Implementation of a low-power LVQ architecture on FPGA

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):597 - 604
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This study presents an architecture-optimising methodology for embedding an learning vector quantization (LVQ) neural network on an field programmable gate array (FPGA) device. The embedded architecture contains both learning and decision circuitry and is optimised towards the lowest power/energy consumption. The low-power/energy architecture is obtained through the selection of the best one among... View full abstract»

• ### Xampling: Analog to digital at sub-Nyquist rates

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):8 - 20
Cited by:  Papers (118)  |  Patents (1)
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The authors present a sub-Nyquist analog-to-digital converter of wideband inputs. The circuit realises the recently proposed modulated wideband converter, which is a flexible platform for sampling signals according to their actual bandwidth occupation. The theoretical work enables, for example, a sub-Nyquist wideband communication receiver, which has no prior information on the transmitter carrier... View full abstract»

• ### Method for designing ternary adder cells based on CNFETs

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):465 - 470
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Recently multiple valued logic has attracted the attention of digital system designers. Scalable threshold voltage values of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) can easily be utilised for multiple-Vt circuit designs. In this study, a novel energy-efficient method for designing one-digit adder is proposed. The suggested design employ ternary multiplexers to select successor and predec... View full abstract»

• ### Gaussian normal basis multiplier over GF(2m) using hybrid subquadratic-and-quadratic TMVP approach for elliptic curve cryptography

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):579 - 588
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In recent years, subquadratric-and-quadratric Toeplitz matrix-vector product (TMVP) computations are widely used for the implementation of binary field multiplication in elliptic curve cryptography. Pure subquadratric TMVP structure involves significantly less space complexity and long computational delay, while quadratric TMVP structure involves larger space complexity and less computation delay.... View full abstract»

• ### Analysis, design and implementation of a zero voltage switching two-switch CCM flyback converter

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):20 - 28
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This study presents a two-switch continuous conduction mode pulse width modulation flyback converter that employs an LC snubber circuit. The snubber circuit is used to achieve zero voltage switching (ZVS) operation for the main switches during the turn-off transition and soft switching for power diodes. With the proposed LC snubber, the magnetic energy in the transformer leakage inductance can be ... View full abstract»

• ### Shadow filters based on DDCC

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):631 - 637
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This study presents a new realisation of voltage-mode shadow filters based on low-voltage low-power differential difference current conveyor (DDCC). Thanks to the attractive features of the DDCC, including its capability of performing arithmetic operations, the proposed filters offer the advantage of circuit simplicity, minimum number of active and passive elements, and no need for additional summ... View full abstract»

• ### MIPSfpga: using a commercial MIPS soft-core in computer architecture education

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):283 - 291
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In this study, the authors introduce MIPSfpga and its accompanying set of learning materials. MIPSfpga is a teaching infrastructure that offers access to the non-obfuscated Register-Transfer Level (RTL) source code of the MIPS microAptiv UP processor. The core is made available by Imagination Technologies for academic use and is targeted to a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), making it ideal f... View full abstract»

• ### Design of ultra-low noise, wideband low-noise amplifier for highly survival radar receiver

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):473 - 480
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High electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) play a crucial role in microwave low-noise amplifier (LNA) and are used in radar receiver, software defined radio and digital radio frequency. A novel technique is used to design and fabricate a high-performance wideband LNA for 5.4-5.9 GHz based on fully stabilised InGaAs pseudo-morphic HEMT (pHEMT) 0.15 μm technology. With the Agilent Advanced De... View full abstract»

• ### Low noise, −50 dB second harmonic distortion single-ended to differential switched-capacitive variable gain amplifier for ultrasound imaging

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):173 - 180
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A low noise, low power, single-ended to differential switched-capacitor variable gain amplifier (SC-VGA) is designed and fabricated in 0.18 μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology for a 2-6 MHz second harmonic cardiac ultrasound imaging system. The SC-VGA has 10-bit dB-linear gain steps from -14 to 32 dB which are distributed into two stages, and each stage has a single-stage ... View full abstract»

• ### Output-capacitorless low-dropout regulator using a cascoded flipped voltage follower

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):418 - 423
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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An improved flipped voltage follower (FVF) and its application to a low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator are presented. The proposed FVF improves most weaknesses of the classical one, namely its poor time response to the output current change from low to high value and poor stability for large capacitive load. The most important parameters of the modified FVF are analysed and described by analytica... View full abstract»

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IET Circuits, Devices & Systems covers the following topics:

Circuit theory and design, circuit analysis and simulation, computer aided design; filters (analogue and switched capacitor); circuit implementations, cells and architectures for integration including VLSI; testability, fault tolerant design, minimisation of circuits and CAD for VLSI; novel or improved electronic devices for both traditional and emerging technologies including nanoelectronics and MEMs, device and process characterisation, device parameter extraction schemes; mathematics of circuits and systems theory; test and measurement techniques involving electronic circuits, circuits for industrial applications, sensors and transducers.

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