T. Mitomo, N. Ono, H. Hoshino, Y. Yoshihara, O. Watanabe, I. Seto
{"title":"A 77 GHz 90 nm CMOS transceiver for FMCW radar applications","authors":"T. Mitomo, N. Ono, H. Hoshino, Y. Yoshihara, O. Watanabe, I. Seto","doi":"10.1109/JSSC.2010.2040234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2010.2040234","url":null,"abstract":"The fisrt 77 GHz frequency modulated continuos wave (FMCW) radar transceiver IC with an accurate FMCW signal generator using a 90 nm CMOS process is presented. To realize accurate FMCW radar system in CMOS, a PLL synthesizer that is able to output linear FMCW frequency is applied. Measured radar performances, output spectrum and distance of a target, show the transceiver achieves a fundamental function for radar applications.","PeriodicalId":368770,"journal":{"name":"2009 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128365220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Takahiro Kohara, Woonghee Lee, K. Mizobuchi, S. Sugawa
{"title":"A CMOS image sensor with 2.5-e− random noise and 110-ke− full well capacity using column source follower readout circuits","authors":"Takahiro Kohara, Woonghee Lee, K. Mizobuchi, S. Sugawa","doi":"10.1109/ASPDAC.2010.5419869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2010.5419869","url":null,"abstract":"A low noise CMOS image sensor without degradation of saturation performance has been developed by using column amplifiers of the gains of about 1.0 in a lateral overflow integration capacitor technology. The 1/4-inch, 4.5-µm pitch, 800H × 600V pixels CMOS image sensor fabricated by a 0.18-µm 2P3M technology including a buried pinned photo-diode structure has achieved fully linear response, 0.98 column readout gain, 100-µV/e<sup>−</sup> conversion gain, 2.5-e<sup>−</sup> random noise, 110,000-e<sup>−</sup> full well capacity and 93-dB dynamic range in one exposure.","PeriodicalId":368770,"journal":{"name":"2009 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114633644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steven C. Jocke, J. Bolus, Stuart N. Wooters, T. Blalock, B. Calhoun
{"title":"A 2.6-µW sub-threshold mixed-signal ECG SoC","authors":"Steven C. Jocke, J. Bolus, Stuart N. Wooters, T. Blalock, B. Calhoun","doi":"10.1145/1594233.1594260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1594233.1594260","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a 0.13-µm CMOS sub-threshold (sub-VT) mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) that acquires and processes an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal for wireless ECG monitoring. The SoC uses a sub-threshold digital microcontroller (μC) for adaptive control of the sub-VT biased analog components and for processing the ECG data. The μC operates from 0.24 V to 1.2 V and consumes as little as 1.51 pJ per instruction. The SoC consumes only 2.6 µW while providing either heart rate or ECG data.","PeriodicalId":368770,"journal":{"name":"2009 Symposium on VLSI Circuits","volume":"390 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133122819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}