Stmicroelectronics S.r.l.

Roberto Faravelli

Giovanni Carlo Tripoli

Matteo Quartiroli

Salvatore Poli

Paolo Pulici

Michele Bartolini

Dario Livornesi

Mattia Fausto Moretti

Alessio Facen

Paul Georges Marie Rose

Francesco Piscitelli

Alessio Emanuele Vergani

Cecilia Teresa Rita Gatti

According to an embodiment, a circuit includes a core and low-frequency recovery circuits. The core circuit is configured to bias a resistive sensor used to measure a fly height of a hard disk drive. The core circuit is additionally configured to amplify a high-frequency component of a sensing signal of the resistive sensor, the sensing signal indicating the fly height. The low-frequency recovery circuit is configured to amplify the sensing signal's low-frequency component.

Circuit for biasing an external resistive sensor

An oscillator circuit including a ring oscillator and a reference current source is provided. The ring oscillator includes an odd number of inverter stages. Each inverter stage includes a first transistor having a first reference threshold that varies over temperature. The reference current source is configured to generate a plurality of currents, where a respective current is applied directly to the drain of a respective first transistor of a respective inverter stage. The reference current source includes a reference transistor that has a second reference threshold that varies over temperature; a resistor coupled between a gate and a source of the reference transistor; a second transistor having a source coupled to the gate of the reference transistor for generating a reference current that flows through the resistor to regulate a voltage of the resistor to the second threshold voltage; and a current mirror configured to generate the plurality of currents.

Oscillator circuit, and related integrated circuit

One or more first signals and one or more second signals, wherein the second signal(s) are slowly varying or low frequency signals in comparison with the first signals and are converted from analog to digital by sampling the first signals and the second signals to produce samples thereof for analog-to-digital conversion, subjecting the samples of the first signals to conversion to digital at a certain conversion rate, subjecting the samples of the second signal to conversion to digital by segments so that these segments are subjected to conversion to digital along with the samples of the first signals at the respective conversion rate, and reconstructing digital converted samples of the second signal from the segments subjected to conversion to digital.

Method and a device for analog-to-digital conversion of signals, corresponding apparatus

Method and device for analog-to-digital conversion of signals, corresponding apparatus

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Roberto Faravelli