A 12-b 20-MS/s pipelined ADC is calibrated using an algorithmic ADC, which is itself calibrated. With background calibration, the peak SNDR and SFDR of the pipeline are 70.8 dB and 93.3 dB, respectively. The total power dissipation is 254 mW from 3.3 V. The active area is 7.5 mm in 0.35 m CMOS.

In this paper, the design requirements of different mixers for direct conversion receivers are discussed. Special attention has been paid into the detection of amplitude-modulated RF signal envelope. Three active mixers have been implemented to investigate the discussed requirements by using a 0.35-μm, 25-GHz BiCMOS technology. The same process allows an objective comparison between the differe...

Hyperkalaemia is a common electrolyte disorder with potentially lethal consequences and can lead to life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias. Spurious hyperkalaemia, also known as pseudohyperkalaemia or factitious hyperkalaemiais, is also quite common in clinical practice and it's a source of avoidable emergency department visits or hospital admissions. We report a case in which alarming hyperkala...

We performed a period analysis of terrestrial impact crater ages and epochs of mass extinctions of species, and examined the innuence of the \human{signal" enhanced by the truncation of these data. That truncation distorted the statistics of the rst periodicity detection in the impact crater ages, was checked by repeating this earlier power spectrum method analysis combined with Monte Carlo sim...

The disambiguation approach to the input of formulae enables the user to type correct formulae in a terse syntax close to the usual ambiguous mathematical notation. When it comes to incorrect formulae we want to present only errors related to the interpretation meant by the user, hiding errors related to other interpretations (spurious errors). We propose a heuristic to recognize spurious error...

The generation of explanations is considered as a main asset of knowledge-based systems. In this paper we show that current approaches of generating explanations for constraint satisfaction problems fall short. These approaches can lead to spurious explanations with respect to a proposed (or selected) solution. We introduce an extension of current explanation principles such that all explanatio...

Marshallian consumer surplus (MCS) is generally an inaccurate measure of welfare change because it neglects income effects. Suppose these effects overturn the usual demand response to a price change. Then, the deadweight loss from a distortionary tax or subsidy has the wrong sign, that is, there is a spurious deadweight gain. JEL Classification: D11, D6.