This paper presents a fully implantable, wirelessly powered subcutaneous amperometric biosensor. We propose a novel ultra-low power all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) based potentiostat architecture for electrochemical sensing. The system is wirelessly powered by near-field RF coupling of an on-chip antenna to an external coil at 915 MHz. Bi-directional wireless telemetry supports data trans...

approved: _____________________________________________________ Un-Ku Moon Kartikeya Mayaram Circuits operating outside the earth’s atmosphere are more vulnerable to cosmic radiation and require special design consideration. The purpose of this work is to explore methods of mitigating the effect of radiation in phase locked loop (PLL) circuits. Several voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) and ...

Digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) form the core of all digital phase locked loop (ADPLL).Nowadays portable batteries play a vital role in communication systems, hence low power circuits with reduced hardware are important. These criterions are satisfied by the proposed architecture. Different DCO designs with 3T NAND and 3T NOR gates as inverters proposed along with the result of 3T XOR and...

چکیده: در ایـن مقاله طراحی یک مبدل زمان به دیجیتال 12 بیتی رزولوشن بالا و توان مصرفی کم مبتنی بر اسیلاتور حلقوی چند­مسیره (multi-path gated ring oscillator) در تکنولوژی nm-cmos130 بیان شده است. برای افزایش رزولوشن دو مسیر گیت با رزولوشن­های متفاوت، رزولوشن درشت و رزولوشن ریز، به­صورت ساختار ورنیر استفاده شده است. تأخیر گیت هر مسیر تعیین­کننده رزولوشن آن مسیر و به دلیل به ­کار بردن آن­ها در ساخت...

A Digitally Controlled Oscillator (DCO) for the frequency band of 1700-1900 MHz is presented. This architecture achieves a frequency resolution less than 1-kHz. The DCO is a part of an All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop (ADPLL) for GSM-1800 and GSM-900 applications implemented in a 0.18 μm CMOS process. In this architecture an 18-bit delta sigma digital to analog converter and a voltage controlled L...

In this paper, a new high dynamic range DigitallyControlled Oscillator (DCO) for All-DPLL systems is proposed. The proposed DCO is based on using a ΔΣ modulator as a Digital-to-Analog converter. Using ΔΣ DAC can provide a very high resolution (18-bit) control on the DCO. The ΔΣ DAC output is a 2-level pulse signal that needs to be filtered for cancelling the out of band shaped noise. The used Δ...

This article presents a radiation-tolerant digitally controlled complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) ring oscillator design suitable for all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) implementations. To address the challenges presented by harsh radiation environments, wide tuning range architecture is with superior single-event effect (SEE) tolerance. The proposed circuit charac...