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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Nano-Power OTA-Based Low-Pass Filter for Ultra-Low-Energy Biomedical Signal Processing.

Tomasz Kulej, Montree Kumngern, Fabian Khateb

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Tomasz KulejDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Czestochowa University of Technology, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-6315-9292
Montree KumngernDepartment of Telecommunications Engineering, School of Engineering, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok 10520, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0002-1960-9081
Fabian KhatebDepartment of Microelectronics, Brno University of Technology, Technická 10, 601 90 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-9864-9830

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents a nanowatt-scale operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) and an electronically tunable third-order low-pass filter (LPF) designed for energy-constrained biomedical signal conditioning. The circuits are implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process and verified through comprehensive schematic-level simulations. Biased in the deep subthreshold region at 1 nA, the OTA achieves a 50 dB low-frequency gain, a 225 Hz unity-gain bandwidth at 10 pF load capacitance and an input-referred noise floor of 1.55 μV/√Hz, with a total power consumption of only 1.75 nW. The integrated third-order LPF provides a wide tuning range (37-668 Hz) via bias current modulation, exhibiting excellent linearity with a THD of 0.059% and a 65.3 dB dynamic range. Monte Carlo and PVT corner analyses demonstrate the design's theoretical robustness against process variations and environmental fluctuations. ECG signal simulations validate the circuit's effectiveness in suppressing high-frequency artifacts while preserving morphological integrity, providing a proof-of-concept for ultra-low-power wearable healthcare architectures.

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Amplifiers, ElectronicNanotechnologySignal Processing, Computer-AssistedElectrocardiographyEquipment DesignHumansbiomedical signal processingECG conditioninglow-pass filterOTAsubthreshold CMOSultra-low-power circuits

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PMID42122308
PMCPMC13165992

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