A noise model for full characterization of discrete-time current sensing

6th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Crescentini, M ^a   Bennati, M ^a   Tartagni, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlated double sampling; Nanosensor; Noise model; Sensor interfaces

Indexed keywords

CDS; CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE; CONTINUOUS TIME; CONTINUOUS TIME MODELS; CORRELATED DOUBLE SAMPLING; CURRENT SENSING; DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; DISCRETE-TIME; ELECTRONIC INTERFACE; GENERAL APPROACH; LIMITS OF DETECTION; LOW LEVEL; LOW NOISE; NOISE MODELS; SENSOR INTERFACES; SIMULATION AND TESTING;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MICROELECTRONICS; NANOSENSORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 78049496761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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