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This chapter gives a detailed description of analogue and mixed-signal circuit design, focusing in particular on the S2S printed organic complementary technology. The design and characterisation of several building blocks based on different architectures are shown. After discussing simple differential OTAs, a mismatch-free comparator exploiting offset-cancellation techniques is demonstrated. This circuit is able to resolve differential input voltages as small as 50 mV for a Vdd of 40 V: a remarkable sensitivity for printed electronics. A printed DAC, the first ever demonstrated, is also shown. This DAC, based on a “R-2R” resistive network, achieves a maximum INL of 0.04 LSB at a resolution level of 4 bits. In addition, the HF behaviour of printed diode-connected OTFTs is studied and a four-stage rectifier is presented.
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In a “reader-talks-first” RFID system, the reader sends an energising field (a carrier signal typically at radio frequency) which is modulated with a call message to the transponders. The tags need to demodulate and read this call message (typically AM modulated due to simplicity), before deciding whether to answer the reader. In a “tag-talks-first” system, on the other hand, the reader just sends the energising field with no modulation, and tags send a response as soon as they convert the energising field to power.
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From the definition of mobility, assuming a constant electric field in the channel, we have \( {t}_{flight}={L}^2/\mu {V}_{DS} \).
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Abdinia, S., van Roermund, A.H.M., Cantatore, E. (2015). Analogue and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design. In: Design of Organic Complementary Circuits and Systems on Foil. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21188-6_5
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