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Design of an Energy-Efficient Current-to-Frequency Converter for a Wearable Sensor Platform

Voulgari, Evgenia  
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Krummenacher, Francois  
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Kayal, Maher  
January 1, 2019
Proceedings Of The 2019 26Th International Conference Mixed Design Of Integrated Circuits And Systems (Mixdes 2019)
26th International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES)

This paper presents the design of the ANTIGONE ASIC in AMS 0.35 mu m technology that interfaces with ion-sensitive field effect transistors (ISFETs) to detect biomarkers like pH, Na+ and K+ in human sweat. The ISFET sensors generate a low current dc signal, so a current-to-frequency converter (CFC) architecture is used to measure the produced current of the different sensors in time multiplexing. The ASIC has to properly bias the ISFETs and send the digitized output signal to a microcontroller through an SPI interface. In the front-end, a switched capacitor circuit is used to balance the charge that is stored in the current integrator. The 12-bit converter is designed for low power consumption. The weak inversion region of operation is exploited to achieve the highest gain for the same power budget. The different analog blocks are following a power activation sequence in order to limit the power consumption during the idle states of the system.

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conference paper
DOI
10.23919/MIXDES.2019.8787106
Web of Science ID

WOS:000538328000037

Author(s)
Voulgari, Evgenia  
Krummenacher, Francois  
Kayal, Maher  
Date Issued

2019-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
Proceedings Of The 2019 26Th International Conference Mixed Design Of Integrated Circuits And Systems (Mixdes 2019)
ISBN of the book

978-83-63578-16-9

Start page

210

End page

214

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Engineering

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sweat biosensors

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wearable sensors

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current-to-frequency conversion

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switched capacitors

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energy efficiency

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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
26th International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES)

Rzeszow, POLAND

Jun 27-29, 2019

Available on Infoscience
June 21, 2020
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/169513
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