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A proposed prototype of a 10-bit 1 MS/s single-ended asynchronous Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with an on-chip bandgap reference voltage generator is fabricated with 130 nm technology. To optimize the powe...

A design of low-power 10-bit 1 MS/s asynchronous successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) is presented in this paper. To improve the linearity of the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and energy efficiency, a common mod...

This paper presents a discrete-time zoom analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for low-bandwidth high-precision applications. It uses a coarse-conversion 5-bit asynchronous self-timed SAR ADC combined with a fine-conversion second-order delta-sigma modul...

This paper presents an energy-efficient low power 10-b 8-MS/s asynchronous successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital (ADC) converter. An inverted common-mode charge recovery technique is proposed to reduce the switching energy and to...

This paper presents a low noise 0.6-V 400-kS/s asynchronous successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for input-referred noise reduction. A dual-domain comparator is proposed to optimize the power, noise, and sampling...

An asynchronous successive approximation register (SAR) ADC incorporates a passive resistor based delay cell to reduce power consumption and accommodate the SAR ADC with a reconfigurable sampling frequency or tapered bit period without repeated delay...

A low power 12-bit, 20 MS/s asynchronously controlled successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to be used in wireless access for vehicular environment (WAVE) intelligent transportation system (ITS) sensor based applic...

This paper introduces a fully differential asynchronous successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) designed for biomedical signal processing. By extending the tracking time and utilizing fully differential inputs in the a...

This paper presents a 10 bit 100 MS/s asynchronous successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) without calibration for industrial control system (ICS) applications. Several techniques are adopted in the proposed switchin...

This paper presents a high-speed successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that takes advantage of both asynchronous SAR ADC and loop-unrolled (LU) SAR ADC. By utilizing the output of the dynamic amplifier (DA) to gene...

This work presents the design and simulation of a time-interleaved successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) implemented in GlobalFoundries’ 22 nm Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) CMOS process. Motiva...

A three-step tapered bit period asynchronous successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is proposed to reduce the total DAC settling time by 47.7% compared to the non-tapered conversion time with less design overhead. U...

This article describes an asynchronous split-CDAC-based SAR ADC with integrated input PGA and an RV-Buffer. The split CDAC structure not only reduces the area of the ADC, but also relieves the driving pressure of the input PGA and RV-Buffer. Using th...

The article describes observations from the online teaching of a robotics class during the COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, also known as the coronavirus. The changes in the course structure and in the provided material lead to an unexpected i...

In this work, an interface circuit applied to resistive gas or chemical sensors is proposed. The interface circuit includes a detection front-end, a single-end to differential circuit, a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC),...

As wireless communication systems continue to demand higher data transmission rates, the need for analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with a higher sampling rate becomes increasingly critical. However, traditional successive approximation register (S...

This article reviews design challenges for low-power CMOS high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Basic ADC converter architectures (flash ADCs, interpolating and folding ADCs, subranging and two-step ADCs, pipelined ADCs, successive approxim...

The correlation-based synthetic aperture radar imaging technique, termed radar coincidence imaging, is extended to a fully multistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) configuration. Within this framework, we explo...

A 12-bit 200 MS/s pipelined successive-approximation-register (SAR) analogue-to-digital-converter (ADC) implemented in 40 nm CMOS is presented. Such an ADC consists of two asynchronous SAR ADCs and a dynamic amplifier, which consumes a static power o...

The scenario of multiple wireless power transfer (WPT) systems working closely, synchronously or asynchronously with phase difference often occurs in power supply for household appliances and electric vehicles in parking lots. Magnetic field leakage...

The outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) has resulted in a significant disruption of almost all aspects of everyday life. Several governments around the world have adopted emergency actions to reduce spreading of...

SARS-CoV-2 infection remains a global burden. Despite intensive research, the mechanism and dynamics of early viral replication are not completely understood, such as the kinetics of the formation of genomic RNA (gRNA), sub-genomic RNA (sgRNA), and r...

This paper presents an eight-channel time-interleaved (TI) 2.6 GS/s 8-bit successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) prototype in a 55-nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process. The channel-selection-emb...

Precision agriculture for coffee production requires spatial knowledge of crop yield. However, difficulties in implementation lie in low-sampled areas. In addition, the asynchronicity of this crop adds complexity to the modeling. It results in a dive...

This study aims to design a compact antenna structure suitable for implantable devices, with a broad frequency range covering various bands such as the Industrial Scientific and Medical band (868–868.6 MHz, 902–928 MHz, 5.725–5.875...

All severe cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections are characterized by a high risk of disease progression towards ARDS, leading to a bad outcome. Respiratory symptoms in COVID-19 patients often do not correspond to disease’s worsening. In our sample, m...

This paper presents a real-time output 56 GS/s 8 bit time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC), where the full-speed converted data are output by 16-lane transmitters. A 64-way 8 bit asynchronous SAR array using monotonous and split switchin...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) acquisitions are mainly deemed suitable for mapping dynamic land-cover and land-use scenarios due to their timeliness and reliability. This particularly applies to Sentinel-1 imagery. Nevertheless, the accurate mapping...