Andrea Ballo

52 papers C 5Journal 28Unranked 19
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
Fully Integrated Mm-Scale 5G RF MIMO Harvester with -40dBm Sensitivity and Spatial MPPT via Hybrid Transformer-Based Combining/Shifting.
ISSCC
Andrea Ballo, Ruiyuan Yang, Karim Ali, Massimo Bruno Alioto
2026 — conf
Highly-Integrated Light-Sensing System with RF Harvesting and Transmission in Commercial N-Type IGZO Flexible Technology.
ISSCC
Marco Privitera, Muhammad Zahid Naveed, Andrea Ballo, Gianluca Giustolisi, Alfio Dario Grasso, Massimo Alioto
2025 J jnl
0.4-V nW-Power High-Gain Bulk-Driven Two-Stage OTA With Self-Cascode Composite Transistors and Intrinsic Current-Buffer Miller Compensation.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Regul. Pap.
Muhammad Omer Shah, Marco Privitera, Andrea Ballo, Massimo Alioto, Salvatore Pennisi
2025 J jnl
46-nA High-PSR CMOS Buffered Voltage Reference With 1.2-5 V and -40
IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst.
Chiara Venezia, Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Alessandro Rizzo, Calogero Ribellino, Salvatore Pennisi
2025 C conf
A 0.3-V, nW-power Bulk-Driven Rail-to-Rail 4-Stage OTA in a 180 nm CMOS technology.
ISCAS
Marco Privitera, Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso
2025 — conf
A Comparative Analysis of 60-GHz LNAs for Low-Power mm-Wave Receivers.
PRIME
Minoo Eghtesadi, Andrea Ballo, Manfredi Caruso, Salvatore Pennisi, Gianluca Giustolisi, Egidio Ragonese
2025 — conf
A Comparative Analysis of NMOS Linear Dropout Voltage regulators in 65 nm CMOS technology.
PRIME
Kashif Nisar, Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso
2025 — conf
A Fully Differential Amplifier with active load using cross-coupled bulk to enhance the gain and CMRR.
PRIME
Kashif Nisar, Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso
2025 — conf
An Area efficient OTA in Standard 28nm CMOS Technology for Aerospace Applications.
ICECS
Kashif Nisar, Marco Privitera, Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso
2025 — conf
An Area-Efficient Design Strategy for Dickson Charge Pumps on Flexible Substrate.
ICECS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2025 J jnl
Sub- μ W Battery-Less and Oscillator-Less Wi-Fi Backscattering Transmitter Reusing RF Signal for Harvesting, Communications, and Motion Detection.
CoRR
Marco Privitera, Andrea Ballo, Karim Ali Ahmed, Alfio Dario Grasso, Massimo Alioto
2025 J jnl
Sub- μ W Battery-Less and Oscillator-Less Wi-Fi Backscattering Transmitter Reusing RF Signal for Harvesting, Communications, and Motion Detection.
IEEE J. Solid State Circuits
Marco Privitera, Andrea Ballo, Karim Ali, Alfio Dario Grasso, Massimo Alioto
2025 C conf
The charge pump as a signal amplifier: enabling small-signal gain boosting.
ISCAS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2025 J jnl
Ultra-Low-V
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Regul. Pap.
Tian Siang Ho, Harikrishnan Ramiah, Kishore Kumar Pakkirisami Churchill, Andrea Ballo, Wen Xun Lian, Yi Chen Lee, Yong Chen
2024 J jnl
0.35-V SR-Enhanced Bulk-Driven OTA for Loads up to 10 nF.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Regul. Pap.
Andrea Ballo, Ramón G. Carvajal, Alfio Dario Grasso, Clara Isabel Luján-Martínez, Salvatore Pennisi, Chiara Venezia
2024 C conf
A 15-nA quiescent current capacitor-less LDO for sub-1V μW-powered fully-harvested systems.
ISCAS
Marco Privitera, Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Massimo Alioto
2024 — conf
A GaN-Based DC-DC Modular Switched Inductor Converter for Shading/Mismatch Mitigation in Bifacial Photovoltaic Systems.
DCIS
Katia Samperi, Andrea Ballo, Salvatore Pennisi, Alfio Dario Grasso
2024 J jnl
A High Efficiency and High Power Density Active AC/DC Converter for Battery-Less US-Powered IMDs in a 28-nm CMOS Technology.
IEEE Access
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Marco Privitera
2024 — conf
The Self-Oscillating Dickson Charge Pump.
DCIS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2023 J jnl
A 0.3-V 8.5-μ a Bulk-Driven OTA.
IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst.
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Salvatore Pennisi, Giovanni Susinni
2023 C conf
A 28-nm, 0.5-V, 78.5-nA Switched Capacitor Current Reference with Active Trimming for sub-1V Implantable Medical Devices.
ISCAS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Marco Privitera
2023 — conf
An Energy-Efficient Design Strategy for Dickson Charge Pumps with Linear Distributed Capacitance.
NEWCAS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2023 J jnl
Demystifying Regulating Active Rectifiers for Energy Harvesting Systems: A Tutorial Assisted by Verilog-A Models.
IEEE Access
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Marco Privitera
2023 C conf
Fully On-Chip Charge Pump-based Boost Converter in 65-nm CMOS for Single Solar Cell Powered IC.
ISCAS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2023 J jnl
Hybrid Cascode Frequency Compensation for Four-Stage OTAs Driving a Wide Range of C
IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst.
Hamed Aminzadeh, Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Mohammad Mahdi Valinezhad, Mohammad Jamali
2023 J jnl
Ladder-Type G
IEEE Access
Abdol Rasool Ghasemi, Hamed Aminzadeh, Andrea Ballo
2023 — conf
Triple Clock Boosted Voltage Multiplier: A Design Strategy to Heavily Reduce Rise Time.
NEWCAS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2023 J jnl
Very-Low-Voltage Charge Pump Topologies for IoT Applications.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Regul. Pap.
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2022 — conf
A 0.5-V 28-nm CMOS Inverter-Based Comparator with Threshold Voltage Control.
PRIME
Chiara Venezia, Andrea Ballo, Salvatore Pennisi
2022 — conf
A 0.63 pJ/bit Fully-Digital BPSK Demodulator for US-powered IMDs downlink in a 28-nm bulk CMOS technology.
PRIME
Marco Privitera, Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso
2022 J jnl
A 6.3-ppm/°C, 100-nA Current Reference With Active Trimming in 28-nm Bulk CMOS Technology.
IEEE Access
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Marco Privitera
2022 J jnl
A Bulk Current Regulation Technique for Dual-Branch Cross-Coupled Charge Pumps.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2022 J jnl
A Charge Loss Aware Advanced Model of Dickson Voltage Multipliers.
IEEE Access
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo, Toru Tanzawa
2022 — conf
A Design Procedure for Sizing Comparators in Active Rectifiers using $g_{m}/I_{D}$ Technique.
SBCCI
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Marco Privitera
2022 J jnl
Frequency Compensation of Three-Stage OTAs to Achieve Very Wide Capacitive Load Range.
IEEE Access
Hamed Aminzadeh, Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso
2022 J jnl
The Dickson Charge Pump as a Signal Amplifier.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Regul. Pap.
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2021 J jnl
A Memory-Targeted Dynamic Reconfigurable Charge Pump to Achieve a Power Consumption Reduction in IoT Nodes.
IEEE Access
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2021 — conf
An Efficient AC-DC Converter in 28nm Si-Bulk CMOS Technology for Piezo-Powered Medical Implanted Devices.
MWSCAS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Marco Privitera
2021 J jnl
Charge Pumps for Ultra-Low-Power Applications: Analysis, Design, and New Solutions.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo, Toru Tanzawa
2021 — conf
Comparison of the Wide-Frequency Range Dynamic Behavior of the Dickson and Cockcroft-Walton Voltage Multipliers.
MWSCAS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2021 — conf
Dickson Charge Pump: Design Strategy for Optimum Efficiency.
NEWCAS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2020 J jnl
A Compact Temperature Sensor With a Resolution FoM of 1.82 pJ·K
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.
Andrea Ballo, Giuseppe Bruno, Alfio Dario Grasso, Michele G. G. Vaiana
2020 J jnl
A High-Performance Charge Pump Topology for Very-Low-Voltage Applications.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2020 J jnl
A Subthreshold Cross-Coupled Hybrid Charge Pump for 50-mV Cold-Start.
IEEE Access
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2020 J jnl
A simple and effective design strategy to increase power conversion efficiency of linear charge pumps.
Int. J. Circuit Theory Appl.
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2020 J jnl
Charge Pump Improvement for Energy Harvesting Applications by Node Pre-Charging.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst.
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2020 J jnl
Current-mode body-biased switch to increase performance of linear charge pumps.
Int. J. Circuit Theory Appl.
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo
2020 J jnl
Linear distribution of capacitance in Dickson charge pumps to reduce rise time.
Int. J. Circuit Theory Appl.
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo, Toru Tanzawa
2019 J jnl
Active load with cross-coupled bulk for high-gain high-CMRR nanometer CMOS differential stages.
Int. J. Circuit Theory Appl.
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Salvatore Pennisi
2019 — conf
CMOS Differential Stage with Improved DC Gain, CMRR and PSRR Performance.
ICECS
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Salvatore Pennisi
2019 J jnl
Optimized Charge Pump With Clock Booster for Reduced Rise Time or Silicon Area.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs
Andrea Ballo, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gianluca Giustolisi, Gaetano Palumbo
2018 — conf
A Clock Boosted Charge Pump with Reduced Rise Time.
ICECS
Andrea Ballo, Gianluca Giustolisi, Alfio Dario Grasso, Gaetano Palumbo