This paper explores the solutions offered by Switched Capacitor (SC) techniques for the implementation of fuzzy circuits. The architecture of a microcontroller is presented to perform the simplified inference method and the circuit realizations of the different blocks are described. The design technique achieves high operation speed, typical in analog operation, and at the same time allows the ...

The MF8 consists of two second-order bandpass filter stages and an inverting operational amplifier. The two filter stages are identical and may be used as two tracking second-order bandpass filters, or cascaded to form a single fourth-order bandpass filter. The center frequency is controlled by an external clock for optimal accuracy, and may be set anywhere between 0.1 Hz and 20 kHz. The ratio ...

This paper presents a technique for programmable switchedcapacitor (SC) filters based on periodical nonuniform individual sampling (PNIS) of each SC structure in the filter. It is shown how very wide range of programmability in all circuit parameters can be obtained, whereas the dynamic range degradation is kept minimum. Experimental results obtained from a 1.2 p m CMOS second-order SC filter a...

Version 6c, 28 July 2006 SpectreRF provides powerful and unique new analyses that offer designers of switchedcapacitor filters the ability to predict the performance of their circuits in ways that were not previously possible. It allows designers to quickly and directly predict the transfer and noise characteristics of filters described at the transistor level while including all of the importa...

In this paper, a methodology for designing reconfigurable discrete-time ∆Σ modulator topologies is proposed. Topologies are generated from a set of all possible topologies expressed by a generic topology, and optimized for minimizing the complexity of the topologies, maximizing the topology robustness with respect to circuit nonidealities, and minimizing total power consumption. The paper prese...

Recent advances in low-power circuits have enabled mm-scale wireless systems [1] for wireless sensor networks and implantable devices, among other applications. Energy harvesting is an attractive way to power such systems due to limited energy capacity of batteries at these form factors. However, the same size limitation restricts the amount of harvested power, which can be as low as 10s of nW ...

Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) are bioreactors that convert chemical energy in organic compounds to electrical energy through the metabolism of microorganisms. Organic matters are widely available in the environment that contains a huge amount of energy. This energy could be harvested, converted, by the technology of MFCs, to be used in certain applications. Energy production of a MFC is limited i...

In this paper, a modified auto zeroed integrator is used to design and simulate a low-voltage high-Q switched capacitor pseudo 2-path filter.  The filter is a sixth–order Chebyshev band-pass filter operating at sampling frequency of 1MHz and center frequency of 250 kHz with a quality factor of 50. The proposed filter has both low-voltage and high speed properties of the auto zeroed integrators ...

Battery management systems (BMS) are a key element in electric vehicle energy storage systems. The BMS performs several functions concerning to the battery system, its key task being balancing the battery cells. Battery cell unbalancing hampers electric vehicles’ performance, with differing individual cell voltages decreasing the battery pack capacity and cell lifetime, leading to the eventual ...

MODULARIZED MULTILEVEL AND Z-SOURCE POWER CONVERTER AS RENEWABLE ENERGY INTERFACE FOR VEHICLE AND GRID-CONNECTED APPLICATIONS By Dong Cao Due the energy crisis and increased oil price, renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic panel, wind turbine, or thermoelectric generation module, are used more and more widely for vehicle and grid-connected applications. However, the output of these rene...