Subthreshold current-mode oscillator-based quantizer with 3-decade scalable sampling rate and pico-Ampere range resolution

ESSCIRC 2010 - 36th European Solid State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 174-177

  Tajalli, Armin ^a   Leblebici, Yusuf ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL DATA CONVERTERS; BIO-MEDICAL; CURRENT MODE; CURRENT-CONTROLLED; END SYSTEMS; INPUT CURRENT; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; OVER SAMPLING RATIO; POWER DISSIPATION; QUANTIZATION NOISE; QUANTIZERS; RANGE RESOLUTION; RING OSCILLATOR; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SAMPLING RATES; SUB-THRESHOLD CURRENT;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; MODULATORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 78650386133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2010.5619901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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