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A phase IIa active-comparator-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of efinopegdutide in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Open
Currently, there are no approved therapies for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The weight loss associated with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists has been shown to decrease hepatic inflammation in patients with NASH. I…
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-Band Low-Profile Monopulse Slot Array Antenna Based on Gap Waveguide Corporate-Feed Network Open
This paper presents a gap waveguide-based compact monopulse array antenna, which is formed with four unconnected layers, for millimeter-wave tracking applications at W-band (85–105 GHz). Recently developed gap waveguide technology removes …
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Online Optimization : Competing with Dynamic Comparators Open
Recent literature on online learning has focused on developing adaptive algorithms that take advantage of a regularity of the sequence of observations, yet retain worst-case performance guarantees. A complementary direction is to develop p…
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A Low-Power High-Speed Dynamic Comparator With a Transconductance-Enhanced Latching Stage Open
Low-power, high-speed dynamic comparators are highly desirable in the design of high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and digital I/O circuits. Most dynamic comparators use a pair of cross-coupled inverters as the latching stage, w…
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A 46 $\mu \text{W}$ 13 b 6.4 MS/s SAR ADC With Background Mismatch and Offset Calibration Open
A 6.4 MS/s 13 b ADC with a low-power background calibration for DAC mismatch and comparator offset errors is presented. Redundancy deals with DAC settling and facilitates calibration. A two-mode comparator and 0.3 fF capacitors reduce powe…
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A Power-Efficient Continuous-Time Incremental Sigma-Delta ADC for Neural Recording Systems Open
This paper presents an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) dedicated to neural recording systems. By using two continuous-time incremental sigma-delta ADCs in a pipeline configuration, the proposed ADC can achieve high-resolution without sac…
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CMP-PIM Open
In this paper, an energy-efficient and high-speed comparator-based processing-in-memory accelerator (CMP-PIM) is proposed to efficiently execute a novel hardware-oriented comparator-based deep neural network called CMPNET. Inspired by loca…
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Differential-Mode to Common-Mode Conversion Detector Based on Rat-Race Hybrid Couplers: Analysis and Application to Differential Sensors and Comparators Open
Altres ajuts: M. Gil acknowledges the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Young Researchers Support Program (VJIDOCUPM18MGB) for its support
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Implementation of Low-Power 6–8 b 30–90 GS/s Time-Interleaved ADCs With Optimized Input Bandwidth in 32 nm CMOS Open
A model for voltage-based time-interleaved sampling is introduced with two implementations of highly interleaved analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for 100 Gb/s communication systems. The model is suitable for ADCs where the analog input …
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The Use of (Network) Meta-Analysis in Clinical Oncology Open
Meta-analysis is important in oncological research to provide a more reliable answer to a clinical research question that was assessed in multiple studies but with inconsistent results. Pair-wise meta-analysis can be applied when comparing…
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Understanding the Potential and Limitations of Tunnel FETs for Low-Voltage Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits Open
In this paper, the analog/mixed-signal performance is evaluated at device and circuit levels for a III-V nanowire tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) technology platform and compared against the predictive model for FinFETs at the 10-nm …
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Attentive Recurrent Comparators Open
Rapid learning requires flexible representations to quickly adopt to new evidence. We develop a novel class of models called Attentive Recurrent Comparators (ARCs) that form representations of objects by cycling through them and making obs…
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Enhancement of the Direct Torque Control by using Artificial Neuron Network for a Doubly Fed Induction Motor Open
Direct Torque Control (DTC) is the most popular strategy used in the industrial sector, because of its various advantages, however, the torque ripples makes it less efficient, due to the use of the hysteresis comparators, leading to variab…
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Series: Pragmatic trials and real world evidence: Paper 5. Usual care and real life comparators Open
Pragmatic trials may deliver real-world evidence on the added value of new medications compared with usual care and inform decision making earlier in development. This fifth paper in a series on pragmatic trials in the Journal discusses us…
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A106nW 10 b 80 kS/s SAR ADC With Duty-Cycled Reference Generation in 65 nm CMOS Open
This paper presents a 10 b 80 kS/s SAR ADC with low-power duty-cycled reference generation. It generates a stable reference voltage on chip for the SAR ADC and imparts very good immunity against power supply interference to the ADC. A 0.62…
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An Efficient Reconfigurable RF-DC Converter With Wide Input Power Range for RF Energy Harvesting Open
This paper presents a reconfigurable radio frequency to direct current (RF-DC) converter operating at 902 MHz frequency designed to efficiently harvest RF signals and convert into useable DC voltages for RF energy harvesting applications. …
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A nanocryotron comparator can connect single-flux-quantum circuits to conventional electronics Open
Integration with conventional electronics offers a straightforward and\neconomical approach to upgrading existing superconducting technologies, such as\nscaling up superconducting detectors into large arrays and combining single\nflux quan…
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A Framework for Methodological Choice and Evidence Assessment for Studies Using External Comparators from Real-World Data Open
Several approaches have been proposed recently to accelerate the pathway from drug discovery to patient access. These include novel designs such as using controls external to the clinical trial where standard randomised controls are not fe…
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Optimized design and performance analysis of novel comparator and full adder in nanoscale Open
In a vastly rapid progress of very large scale integration (VLSI) archetype, it is the requirement of moment to attain a consistent model with swifter functioning speed and low power utilization. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an i…
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Bit-Plane Extracted Moving-Object Detection Using Memristive Crossbar-CAM Arrays for Edge Computing Image Devices Open
In this paper, we present the hardware implementation of a novel algorithm for moving-object detection, which can be integrated with CMOS image sensors. Bit planes of consecutive frames are stored in memristive crossbar arrays and compared…
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High‐speed low‐power and low‐power supply voltage dynamic comparator Open
A structure of a dynamic comparator with high‐speed low‐power and a low‐power supply voltage is proposed. The proposed comparator is compared with previous dynamic comparators. For the same size of input/output transistors and latch as wel…
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Rail-to-Rail Dynamic Voltage Comparator Scalable Down to pW-Range Power and 0.15-V Supply Open
An ultra-low voltage, ultra-low power rail-to-rail dynamic voltage comparator solely based on digital standard cells is presented. Thanks to its digital nature, the comparator can be designed and integrated with fully-automated digital des…
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A 0.5-V Fully Synthesizable SAR ADC for On-Chip Distributed Waveform Monitors Open
This paper presents a fully synthesizable successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for on-chip distributed waveform monitoring in a low-power system-on-chip (SoC). All blocks in the proposed ADC are designe…
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A 31-$\mu$ W, 148-fs Step, 9-bit Capacitor-DAC-Based Constant-Slope Digital-to-Time Converter in 28-nm CMOS Open
This article proposes a power-efficient highly linear capacitor-array-based digital-to-time converter (DTC) using a charge redistribution constant-slope approach. A fringe-capacitor-based digital-to-analog converter (C-DAC) array is used t…
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Progress of nanopositioning and nanomeasuring machines for cross-scale measurement with sub-nanometre precision Open
Nanopositioning and nanomeasuring machines (NPM-machines), developed at Technische Universität Ilmenau, have provided high-precision measurement and positioning of objects across ten decades, from 20 pm resolution up to 200 mm measuring ra…
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New direct power synergetic-SMC technique based PWM for DFIG integrated to a variable speed dual-rotor wind power Open
In this work, a new direct power synergetic-sliding mode (DPSSM) technique based pulse width modulation (PWM) strategy for doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) integrated to variable speed dual-rotor wind power (DRWP) systems is designed.…
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Comparative Effectiveness Research Using Observational Data: Active Comparators to Emulate Target Trials with Inactive Comparators Open
Introduction: Because a comparison of non-initiators and initiators of treatment may be hopelessly confounded, guidelines for the conduct of observational research often recommend using an “active” comparator group consisting of people who…
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All-optical ultrafast switching in a silicon microring resonator and its application to design multiplexer/demultiplexer, adder/subtractor and comparator circuit Open
Optica Applicata, Vol. 46, 2016, nr 4, s. 517-539
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A Dendritic Neuron Model with Adaptive Synapses Trained by Differential Evolution Algorithm Open
A dendritic neuron model with adaptive synapses (DMASs) based on differential evolution (DE) algorithm training is proposed. According to the signal transmission order, a DNM can be divided into four parts: the synaptic layer, dendritic la…
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Ultra-Low Power Silicon Neuron Circuit for Extreme-Edge Neuromorphic Intelligence Open
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the development of artificial intelligence circuits and systems for cloud-less edge computing applications. In an effort to reduce power consumption even further, we propose beyond von-Neuma…