• Bonding-wire triangular spiral inductor for on-chip switching power converters 

      Villar Piqué, Gerard; Delós, Julià; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José (IEEE, 2011)
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      This work presents the first design and modelling of bonding-wire-based triangular spiral inductors (Fig. 1), targeting their application to on-chip switching power converters. It is demonstrated that the equilateral ...
    • Circuito promediador para control de convertidores conmutados de potencia: implemetnación integrada cmos en mod de corriente 

      Villar Piqué, Gerard; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Martínez García, Herminio; Vidal López, Eva María; Poveda López, Alberto (Universidad de Alcalá, 2002)
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      El presente artículo describe el estudio, la síntesis y la implementación microelectrónica analógica de un método para la obtención del valor medio instantáneo de una señal, en el contexto del control de convertidores ...
    • CMOS integrated circuit controllers for switching power converters 

      Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Villar Piqué, Gerard; Poveda López, Alberto (2004-08)
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      Two case examples of high-speed CMOS microelectronic implementations of high-performance controllers for switching power converters are presented. The design and implementation of a current-programmed controller and a ...
    • Self-controlled 4-transistor low-power min-max current selector 

      Madrenas Boadas, Jordi; Fernández Martínez, Daniel; Cosp Vilella, Jordi; Martínez Alvarado, Luis Arturo; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Vidal López, Eva María; Villar Piqué, Gerard (2009-10)
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      Four cross-coupled MOS transistors operating as switches implement a very compact, fast, low-power and precise minimum and maximum current selector. Local positive feedback allows the circuit to work without the need of ...
    • Synchronizable compact CMOS oscillator 

      Villar Piqué, Gerard; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Vidal López, Eva María; Cosp Vilella, Jordi; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi (2005-01)
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      This letter describes the design and implementation of a synchronizable compact CMOS oscillator. By using a fully differential topology, a reduction in area occupancy together with an improved robustness in front of on-chip ...
    • Synchronization of nonlinear electronic oscillators for neural computation 

      Cosp Vilella, Jordi; Madrenas Boadas, Jordi; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Vidal López, Eva María; Villar Piqué, Gerard (2004-09)
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      This paper deals with coupled oscillators as the building blocks of a bioinspired computing paradigm and their implementation. In order to accomplish the low-power and fast-processing requirements of autonomous applications, ...
    • Towards an on-chip boost switching power converter: a design space exploration 

      Villar Piqué, Gerard; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Guinjoan Gispert, Francisco; Poveda López, Alberto (2005-12)
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      This work presents the design space exploration of a boost switching power converter focused on its monolithic implementation. An analysis in terms of the models of its main circuit elements (switching transistors, inductor, ...