This paper presents a proposed low-noise and high-sensitivity Internet of Thing(IoT)system based on an M&NEMS microphone.The IoT device consists of an M&NEMS resistive accelerometer associated with an electron...This paper presents a proposed low-noise and high-sensitivity Internet of Thing(IoT)system based on an M&NEMS microphone.The IoT device consists of an M&NEMS resistive accelerometer associated with an electronic readout circuit,which is a silicon nanowire and a Continuous-Time(CT)△∑ADC.The first integrator of the△∑ADC is based on a positive feedback DC-gain enhancement two-stage amplifier due to its high linearity and low-noise operations.To mitigate both the offset and 1/f noise,a suggested delay-time chopper negative-R stabilization technique is applied around the first integrator.A 65-nm CMOS process implements the CT△∑ADC.The supply voltage of the CMOS circuit is 1.2-V while 0.96-mW is the power consumption and 0.1-mm^(2) is the silicon area.The M&NEMS microphone and△∑ADC complete circuit are fabricated and measured.Over a working frequency bandwidth of 20-kHz,the measurement results of the proposed IoT system reach a signal to noise ratio(SNR)of 102.8-dB.Moreover,it has a measured dynamic range(DR)of 108-dB and a measured signal to noise and distortion ratio(SNDR)of 101.3-dB.展开更多
文摘This paper presents a proposed low-noise and high-sensitivity Internet of Thing(IoT)system based on an M&NEMS microphone.The IoT device consists of an M&NEMS resistive accelerometer associated with an electronic readout circuit,which is a silicon nanowire and a Continuous-Time(CT)△∑ADC.The first integrator of the△∑ADC is based on a positive feedback DC-gain enhancement two-stage amplifier due to its high linearity and low-noise operations.To mitigate both the offset and 1/f noise,a suggested delay-time chopper negative-R stabilization technique is applied around the first integrator.A 65-nm CMOS process implements the CT△∑ADC.The supply voltage of the CMOS circuit is 1.2-V while 0.96-mW is the power consumption and 0.1-mm^(2) is the silicon area.The M&NEMS microphone and△∑ADC complete circuit are fabricated and measured.Over a working frequency bandwidth of 20-kHz,the measurement results of the proposed IoT system reach a signal to noise ratio(SNR)of 102.8-dB.Moreover,it has a measured dynamic range(DR)of 108-dB and a measured signal to noise and distortion ratio(SNDR)of 101.3-dB.
