A low-power capacitance to pulse width converter for MEMS interfacing

ESSCIRC 2008 - Proceedings of the 34th European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 446-449

  Bruschi, P ^a   Nizza, N ^a   Dei, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE;

CMOS DEVICES; CONTINUOUS OPERATIONS; INTEGRATED CAPACITIVE SENSORS; LOW POWERS; POWER CONSUMPTIONS; PULSE WIDTHS; TEMPERATURE DRIFTS; TEST CHIPS;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 58049115339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2008.4681888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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