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The front-end electronics (FEE) of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is needed very low power consumption and higher readout bandwidth to match the low power requirement of its Short Strip application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) (SSA) and to ha...

The ongoing vivid advance in integration technologies is giving leverage both to computing systems as well as to sensors and sensor systems. Both conventional computing systems as well as innovative computing systems, e.g., following bio-inspiration...

A limited number of Anisotropic Magnetoresistive (AMR) commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) magnetic sensors of the HMC series by Honeywell, with and without integrated front-end electronics, were irradiated with gamma rays up to a total irradiation dose...

This paper presents a highly integrated C-band RF transceiver front-end design consisting of two Single Pole Double Throw (SPDT) transmit/receive (T/R) switches, a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), and a Power Amplifier (PA) for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) positio...

Electronic noses have potential applications in daily life, but are restricted by their bulky size and high price. This review focuses on the use of chemiresistive gas sensors, metal-oxide semiconductor gas sensors and conductive polymer gas sensors...

The complexity of information processing in the brain requires the development of technologies that can provide spatial and temporal resolution by means of dense electrode arrays paired with high-channel-count signal acquisition electronics. In this...

There are various commercially available multifunctional electronics laboratory test equipment on the market that integrates an oscilloscope, signal generator, and logic analyzer. The price point for all these devices typically exceeds USD 250. To lo...

With the specialization of VLSI ASICs for front-end signal processing electronics, the customization of the control back-end electronics (BEE) has become critical to fully deploy the ASIC performance. In the context of space operations, with typical...

The independent DC bus structure multiport power electronic transformer (IDBS-MPET) is a novel power electronic transformer designed to integrate multiple DC sources and DC loads. Due to the configuration of DC ports, which are directly constructed b...

The deployment of fifth-generation (5G) and beyond-5G wireless communication systems necessitates advanced transceiver architectures to support high data rates, spectrum efficiency, and energy-efficient designs. This paper presents a highly adaptive...

Recent advancements in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have paved the way for a new era of frequency-agile coherent radar systems. Unlike traditional all-electronic RF radar techniques, fully photonic systems offer superior performance, overcomin...

According to the advantages of integrating wireless sensors networks (WSN) and radio frequency identification (RFID), this paper proposes a novel method for methane gas density monitoring and predicting based on a passive RFID sensor tag and a convol...

This article explores the evolution of integrated circuits $\left(ICs\right)$, highlighting the fundamental role of open source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools in their development. It describes the IC’s design flow, differentiating between Front-e...

The hadron calorimeter is a central component of the CMS detector, vital for measuring hadron energies and reconstructing missing transverse momentum. This paper reviews its performance before and after the Phase 1 upgrade (completed in 2019), which...

The advance of semiconductor technology not only enables integrated circuits with higher density and better performance but also increases their vulnerability to various aging mechanisms which occur from front-end to back-end. Analysis on the impact...

Charge-Based Capacitance Measurement (CBCM) technique is a simple but effective technique for measuring capacitance values down to the attofarad level. However, when adopted for fully on-chip implementation, this technique suffers output offset cause...

Ultrasonic guided wave interdigital transducers realized with piezoelectric materials are of interest for structural health monitoring systems because of their capability of performing Lamb wave mode selection with respect to single-element transduce...

Depleted Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) sensors are emerging as one of the main candidate technologies for future tracking detectors in high luminosity colliders. Their capability of integrating the sensing diode into the CMOS wafer h...

Gated integrating measurement method represents a widely used approach when fast, repetitive analogue signals are concerned. In this work a compact synchronized gated-integrator prototype has been realized and preliminary characterized. Front-end ele...

This paper reports on a CMOS fully integrated optoelectronic sensing system composed of a Si photodiode and a transimpedance amplifier acting as the electronic analog front-end for the conditioning of the photocurrent generated by the photodiode. The...

A monolithic digital Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) featuring 1024 microcells with a 30-micrometer pitch and a 50% fill factor has been designed in a 110-nanometer CMOS image sensor technology. The device under consideration integrates both SPAD sens...

Millimeter-wave wireless networks of the new fifth generation (5G) have become a primary focus in the development of the information and telecommunication industries. It is expected that 5G wireless networks will increase the data rates and reduce ne...

The aim of this work is the development of a contactless capacitive sensory system for the detection of (Electrocardiographic) ECG-like signals. The acquisition approach is based on a capacitive coupling with the patient body performed by electrodes...

For highly reliable and compact communication of front-end modules, a miniaturized reflectionless band-pass filter, based on the GaAs integrated passive device (IPD) process, is proposed in this work. The stop-band signal absorption rate of the filte...

This work presents the development of a 64-channel application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), implemented to detect the optical Cherenkov light from sub-orbital and orbital altitudes. These kinds of signals are generated by ultra-high energy cos...

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to embedding wireless transceivers into a wide range of devices, in order to implement context-aware scenarios, in which a massive amount of transceivers is foreseen. In this framework, cost-effectiv...

Optical links are rapidly becoming pervasive in the readout chains of particle physics detector systems. Silicon photonics (SiPh) stands as an attractive candidate to sustain the radiation levels foreseen in the next-generation experiments, while gua...

An inductive linear displacement measurement microsystem realized as a monolithic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is presented. The system comprises integrated microtransformers as sensing elements, and analog front-end electronics for...

In ultra-wideband (UWB) radio fuzes, the signal processing unit’s capability to rapidly and accurately extract target characteristics under battlefield conditions directly determines detonation precision and reliability. Escalating electronic w...

This review article is focused on the analysis of the state of the art of sensors for guided ultrasonic waves for the detection and localization of impacts for structural health monitoring (SHM). The recent developments in sensor technologies are the...

The Advanced Particle–astrophysics Telescope (APT) is a mission concept for a future space-based MeV-TeV observatory, designed to combine a Compton and $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ pair telescope, aiming to improve the sensitivity of the instruments to $\gamma$ r...

One of the goals of modern dynamic radiotherapy treatments is to deliver high-dose values in the shortest irradiation time possible. In such a context, fast X-ray detectors and reliable front-end readout electronics for beam diagnostics are crucial t...

This paper presents two cryogenic low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) based on the WIN’s 0.18 $\mathrm{\mu }$m gate length gallium arsenide (GaAs) pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) process designed for radio telescope receivers. Discrete tra...

With the emergence of fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks, millimeter-wave (mmW) and terahertz (THz) frequencies have attracted ever-growing interest for advanced wireless applications. The traditional printed circuit board materials have become...

A fully-integrated data transmission system based on gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) devices is proposed. This system targets high-temperature (HT) applications, especially those involving pressure and temperature senso...

This paper introduces a compact analog configuration that concurrently realizes a mixed-mode biquadratic filter and a dual-mode quadrature oscillator (QO) by employing a single differential differencing gain amplifier (DDGA) and all-grounded passive...

The market for process instruments generally requires low cost devices that are robust, small in size, portable, and usable in-plant. Ultrasonic torsional guided wave sensors have received much attention by researchers for measurement of viscosity an...

Since the 1970s, a great deal of attention has been paid to the development of semiconductor-based biosensors because of the numerous advantages they offer, including high sensitivity, faster response time, miniaturization, and low-cost manufacturing...

This paper describes Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) for an X-band radar transceiver front-end implemented in 0.25 μm GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) technology. Two versions of single pole double throw (SPDT) T/R swi...

Wearable health monitoring systems (WHMS) are recognized as key enablers of continuous real-time physiological sensing in healthcare, eldercare, sports, and occupational safety. However, current devices face critical limitations due to their dependen...

One of the main features of CubeSats is represented by their extreme versatility, e.g., maintaining the same overall structure for different purposes. This requires high technological flexibility achievable in a cost-effective way while maintaining c...

A compact electrochemical sensor module for pH detection was developed for potential integration into specialized devices used for live cell or tissue incubation, for applications in highly parallelized cell culture analysis, by incorporating Organ-o...

The optimization of the Beetle readout ASIC and the performance of the software for the signal processing based on machine learning methods are presented. The Beetle readout chip was developed for the LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) tracking dete...

CMOS microelectronics design has evolved tremendously during the last two decades. The evolution of CMOS devices to short channel designs where the feature size is below 1000 nm brings a great deal of uncertainty in the way the microelectronics desig...

A battery-operated biomedical wearable device gradually assists in clinical tasks to monitor patients’ health states regarding early diagnosis and detection. This paper presents the development of a self-powered portable electronic module by in...

Over the past two decades, there has been a notable and swift advancement in the field of healthcare with regards to the Internet of Things (IoT). This progress has brought forth a substantial prospect for healthcare services to enhance performance,...

Turbidity is a commonly used indicator of water quality in continental and marine waters and is mostly caused by suspended and colloidal particles such as organic and inorganic particles. Many methods are available for the measurement of turbidity, r...

This paper presents a practical implementation and measurement results of power-efficient chip performance optimization, utilizing low-cost indirect measurement methods to support self-X properties (self-calibration, self-healing, self-optimization,...

In this paper, the electronic expansion valve (EXV) on the single-tube heat exchange experimental platform was used as a research object. Firstly, the EXVs were selected according to the experimental requirements, and the functional parameters were s...

Global food production needs to increase in order to meet the demands of an ever growing global population. As resources are finite, the most feasible way to meet this demand is to minimize losses and improve efficiency. Regular monitoring of factors...