Voltage-to-Frequency Converters - CMOS Design and Implementation

This book develops voltage-to-frequency converter (VFC) solutions integrated in standard CMOS technology to be used as a part of a microcontroller-based, multisensor interface in the environment of portable applications, particularly within a WSN node. Coverage includes the total design flow of monolithic VFCs, according to the target application, as well as the analysis, design and implementation of the main VFC blocks, revealing the main challenges and solutions encountered during the design of such high performance cells. Four complete VFCs, each temperature compensated, are fully designed and evaluated: a programmable VFC that includes an offset frequency and a sleep/mode enable terminal; a low power rail-to-rail VFC; and two rail-to-rail differential VFCs.

List of contents

Introduction.- VFC Fundamentals.- Basic VFC Cells.- VFC Architectures.- Conclusions.- Appendix A: UMC 0.18-µm Mixed-Mode/RF CMOS Process.- Appendix B: V-I Converters: Small Signal Analysis.

Summary

This book develops voltage-to-frequency converter (VFC) solutions integrated in standard CMOS technology to be used as a part of a microcontroller-based, multisensor interface in the environment of portable applications, particularly within a WSN node.  Coverage includes the total design flow of monolithic VFCs, according to the target application, as well as the analysis, design and implementation of the main VFC blocks, revealing the main challenges and solutions encountered during the design of such high performance cells. Four complete VFCs, each temperature compensated, are fully designed and evaluated: a programmable VFC that includes an offset frequency and a sleep/mode enable terminal; a low power rail-to-rail VFC; and two rail-to-rail differential VFCs.

Product details

• Authors: Cristin Azcona Murillo, Cristina Azcona Murillo, Belé Calvo Lopez, Belén Calvo Lopez, Pueyo, Santiago Celma Pueyo
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9781493900640
• ISBN: 978-1-4939-0064-0
• No. of pages: 142
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 254 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 142 p.
• Series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing; Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology; B, engineering, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Circuits and Systems, Signal Processing, Electronics, Microelectronics, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Speech processing systems, Digital and Analog Signal Processing, Imaging systems & technology, Image processing, Electronics engineering, Electronic circuits, Electronic Circuits and Systems