A 0.3-mW/Ch 1.25 V piezo-resistance digital ROIC for liquid-dispensing MEMS

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 957-965

  Durà, Roger ^a   Mathieu, Fabrice ^b   Nicu, Liviu ^b   Pérez Murano, Francesc ^a   Serra Graells, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LAAS CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Analog to digital (A D) conversion; CMOS interface circuits; Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS); Piezo resistive sensors; Pulse density modulation (PDM)

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PULSE MODULATION;

ANALOG TO DIGITALCONVERSION (A/D); CMOS INTERFACES; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); PIEZO-RESISTIVE SENSORS; PULSE DENSITY MODULATION;

MEMS;

EID: 67649253095     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2015210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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