Publications by Franco Maloberti

An Energy-Efficient Bridge-to-Digital Converter for Implantable Pressure Monitoring Systems

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli, Franco Maloberti

This paper presents an energy-efficient, duty-cycled, and spinning excitation bridge-to-digital converter (BDC) designed for implantable pressure sensing systems. The circuit provides the measure of the pulmonary artery pressure that is particularly releva ...

2022

Area and Power Efficient Ultra-Wideband Transmitter Based on Active Inductor

Catherine Dehollain, Kerim Türe, Arnout Jan J Devos, Franco Maloberti

This paper presents the design of an impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmitter for low-power, short-range, and high-data rate applications such as high density neural recording interfaces. The IR-UWB transmitter pulses are generated by modulating t ...

2018

Adaptive Learning-Based Compressive Sampling for Low-power Wireless Implants

Volkan Cevher, Catherine Dehollain, Mahsa Shoaran, Yusuf Leblebici, Gürkan Yilmaz, Cosimo Aprile, Luca Baldassarre, Kerim Türe, Franco Maloberti

Implantable systems are nowadays being used to interface the human brain with external devices, in order to understand and potentially treat neurological disorders. The most predominant design constraints are the system’s area and power. In this paper, we ...

2018

Remotely-Powered Front-End at 2.45 GHz for Real-Time Continuous Temperature Sensing

Catherine Dehollain, Onur Kazanç, Franco Maloberti

Remote powering and power management of a passive sensor system employing antenna-rectifier co-design is presented. The operating frequency of the system is chosen at 2.45 GHz in order to reduce the antenna size. A co-design approach enables the coupling o ...

IEEE2018

All Wireless, 16-channel Epilepsy Control System with Sub-mu W/channel and Closed-loop Stimulation Using a Switched-Capacitor-Based Active Charge Balancing Method

Alexandre Schmid, Catherine Dehollain, Kerim Türe, Reza Ranjandish, Franco Maloberti

An all wireless closed-loop stimulation system for epilepsy control is presented that generates charged-balanced programmable stimulation current pulses upon a seizure is detected. The proposed system has highly flexible stimulation parameters thanks to th ...

IEEE2018

Power/data platform for high data rate in implanted neural monitoring system

Alexandre Schmid, Catherine Dehollain, Gürkan Yilmaz, Kerim Türe, Reza Ranjandish, Franco Maloberti

IEEE2017

Optimization of the Data Rate of an OOK CMOS Medical Transmitter Based on LC Oscillators

Catherine Dehollain, Kerim Türe, Gürkan Yilmaz, Franco Maloberti

This paper presents techniques for increasing communication data rates for OOK modulated signals in the case the carrier frequency is generated by a cross-coupled pair LC oscillator. The proposed circuitry completely turns off the transmitter during the tr ...

Ieee2016

Remotely powered PPM demodulator by inductive coupling for rodent applications

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Kerim Türe, Franco Maloberti

A low-power pulse position modulation (PPM) demodulator has been developed for remotely powered batteryless implantable devices. The required power for the implantable device is provided by the magnetic coupling with the external array of powering of coils ...

Springer Verlag2016

A Remotely Powered Implantable Biomedical System With Location Detector

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Franco Maloberti

An universal remote powering and communication system is presented for the implantable medical devices. The system be interfaced with different sensors or actuators. A mobile external unit controls the operation of the implantable chip and reads the sensor ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

A System for Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication of Long-Term Bio-Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Catherine Dehollain, Francesca Stradolini, Cristina Boero, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Stefano Riario, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Franco Maloberti

A system for wireless power transfer and data communication of implantable bio-monitoring systems is presented. The proposed solution uses a servo-controlled power transmitter moved under the animal moving space. An x-y movable magnetic coil transmits the ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015