Re-thinking analog integrated circuits in digital terms: A new design concept for the IoT era

P Toledo, R Rubino, F Musolino… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A steady trend towards the design of mostly-digital and digital-friendly analog circuits,
suitable to integration in mainstream nanoscale CMOS by a highly automated design flow …

Design of digital OTAs with operation down to 0.3 V and nW power for direct harvesting

P Toledo, P Crovetti, O Aiello… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, passive-less fully-digital operational transconductance amplifiers (DIGOTA) for
energy-and area-constrained systems are modeled and analyzed from a design viewpoint …

Fully Digital Rail-to-Rail OTA With Sub-1000-μm² Area, 250-mV Minimum Supply, and nW Power at 150-pF Load in 180 nm

P Toledo, P Crovetti, O Aiello… - IEEE Solid-State Circuits …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fully digital operational transconductance amplifier (DIGOTA) architecture for tightly energy-
constrained low-cost systems is presented. A 180-nm DIGOTA testchip exhibits an area …

A 300mV-supply, sub-nW-power digital-based operational transconductance amplifier

P Toledo, P Crovetti, H Klimach… - … on Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultra-low voltage and ultra-low power Digital-Based Operational Transconductance
Amplifier (DB-OTA) is presented and demonstrated on silicon in 180 nm CMOS. The DB …

Low-voltage, low-area, nW-power CMOS digital-based biosignal amplifier

P Toledo, PS Crovetti, HD Klimach, F Musolino… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the operation principle and the silicon characterization of a power
efficient ultra-low voltage and ultra-low area fully-differential, digital-based Operational …

A 0.3 V, rail-to-rail, ultralow-power, non-tailed, body-driven, sub-threshold amplifier

F Centurelli, R Della Sala, G Scotti, A Trifiletti - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
A novel, inverter-based, fully differential, body-driven, rail-to-rail, input stage topology is
proposed in this paper. The input stage exploits a replica bias control loop to set the …

A 0.3 V rail-to-rail ultra-low-power OTA with improved bandwidth and slew rate

F Centurelli, R Della Sala, P Monsurrò, G Scotti… - Journal of Low Power …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present a novel operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) topology
based on a dual-path body-driven input stage that exploits a body-driven current mirror …

A novel Digital OTA topology with 66-dB DC Gain and 12.3-kHz Bandwidth

M Privitera, P Crovetti, AD Grasso - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief introduces an enhanced digital OTA topology which allows increasing the DC gain
thanks to the adoption of an inverter-based output stage. Moreover, a new equivalent small …

Dynamic and static calibration of ultra-low-voltage, digital-based operational transconductance amplifiers

P Toledo, P Crovetti, H Klimach, S Bampi - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The calibration of the effects of process variations and device mismatch in Ultra Low Voltage
(ULV) Digital-Based Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (DB-OTAs) is addressed in …

An investigation of the operating principles and power consumption of digital-based analog amplifiers

A Richelli, P Faustini, A Rosa, L Colalongo - Journal of Low Power …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Digital-based differential amplifiers (DDA) are particularly suitable to low voltage digital
integrated circuit technologies. This paper presents an exhaustive analysis of digital-based …