In this paper, the front-end of a universally applicable analog integrated circuit for hearing instruments is presented. This IC comprises the following functions: a microphone preamplifier, a pickup-coil preamplifier, a second-order high-pass filter and a second-order low-pass filter, both with a controllable cutoff frequency, and an input-controlled automatic gain control with an adjustable k...

A wide variety of applications require a hard Xray or gamma ray detector which combine both good spatial resolution and energy resolution. Double-sided solid-state strip detectors provide this capability. We report on the development of CMOS electronics designed for photon detection with strip detectors. These electronics include a low noise preamplifier, semi-gaussian shaping amplifier, discri...

This paper presents a novel Strong Arm comparator in which the input pair is reused as static amplifier to preamplify signal during precharge phase. The proposed approach relaxes main trade-offs that characterize latch: compared conventional topology, enhanced achieves better input-referred noise and offset, without penalizing delay nor power consumption. In fact, topology even more efficient t...