12.6 A 160nW 63.9fJ/conversion-step capacitance-to-digital converter for ultra-low-power wireless sensor nodes

Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 220-221

  Ha, Hyunsoo ^a   Sylvester, Dennis ^b   Blaauw, David ^b   Sim, Jae Yoon ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER; CAPACITIVE SENSING; DESIGN CHALLENGES; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SENSING MODALITIES; SIGNAL READOUTS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

MICROSYSTEMS; SENSOR NODES;

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84898080481     PISSN: 01936530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2014.6757408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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