Maher Kayal

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Several Hall sensor configurations have been integrated in CMOS 0.35 mu m technology and analyzed in terms of offset at room temperature and offset drift. We searched for the best geometry that would minimize the offset and its corresponding drift. The tar ...

Inst Materials Physics2012

Temperature Influence Investigation on Hall Effect Sensors Performance Using a Lumped Circuit Model

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Maria-Alexandra Paun

In order to provide the information on their Hall voltage, sensitivity and drift with temperature, a new simpler lumped circuit model for the evaluation of various Hall Effect sensors has been developed. In this sense, the finite element model associated c ...

IEEE2012

A Navigation-Grade MEMS Accelerometer based on a Versatile Front End

Maher Kayal, Marc Pastre

This paper presents a MEMS-based 5th-order Delta Sigma capacitive accelerometer. The Delta Sigma loop is implemented in mixed signal, the global 5th-order filter having a 2nd-order analog and a 3rd-order digital part. The system can be used with a wide ran ...

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A mixed-signal platform dedicated to power system dynamic computation

Maher Kayal, Cédric Meinen, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel

has already been proven that analog emulation overcomes the speed limits of numerical simulators by means of a simple fixed-topology prototype. In order to enhance the modularity and the size of the emulated power system a dedicated platform based on a fie ...

IEEE2011

A 20-bit dynamic range CMOS A/D converter for ionization chambers

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Bernd Dehning

We present the design of a wide dynamic-range CMOS A/D interface circuit for ionization chambers, able to digitize input charge of both polarities over six decades, to operate in a radioactive environment, and foreseen working without calibration. The circ ...

IEEE2011

A fully integrated Hall sensor microsystem with current-mode output

Maher Kayal, Marc Pastre, Andrea Ajbl

This paper presents a fully integrated Hall sensor microsystem with a current-mode output. The system operates in open-loop and includes a Hall sensor with internal biasing, a fully differential front-end, a preamplifier chain and a voltage-to-current conv ...

2011

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is paper presents a voltage-to-current converter as a current-mode output buffering stage for sensor interfaces. The converter can be used in any microsystem needing a current output. It is presented here in the context of a Hall sensor microsystem. The sy ...

IEEE2011

An ultra high-speed, mixed-signal emulator for solving power system dynamic equations

Maher Kayal, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel, Fabrizio Lo Conte, Guillaume Olivier Lanz

This paper focuses on a new pipelined processing unit architecture dedicated to mixed-signal power system emulation. Prior research in this field has proven that analog emulation overcomes the speed limits of numerical simulators with reliable accuracy. Th ...

IEEE2011

Optimization of DC-DC Converters for Improved Electromagnetic Compatibility With High Energy Physics Front-End Electronics

Maher Kayal, Stefano Michelis

The upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN sets new challenges for the powering of the detectors. One of the powering schemes under study is based on DC-DC buck converters mounted on the front-end modules. The hard environmental con ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

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The paper describes the design of optimized printed circuit board (PCB) air-core toroids for high-frequency dc-dc converters with strict requirements in terms of volume and noise. The effect of several design parameters on the overall inductor volume, on d ...

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