High-speed interface circuit for differential capacitance transducers

نویسندگان

  • Hoon Kim
  • Il-Ho Rho
  • Won-Sup Chung
چکیده

A high-speed capacitance difference-to-sum ratio measurement circuit is presented for differential capacitance transducers. It consists of a switched-capacitor input stage, two sample-and-hold (S/H) circuits followed by voltage-to-current (V/I) converters, and a current-ratio-controlled relaxation oscillator. This circuit offers a square-wave output whose oscillation period is directly proportional to the capacitance difference-to-sum ratio of the transducers. A prototype circuit built using discrete components exhibits conversion sensitivity (period per unit capacitance difference-to-sum ratio) amounting to 400μs and linearity error as low as 0.037%. The maximum conversion time is about 160μs when the capacitance difference-to-sum ratio is 0.4.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IEICE Electronic Express

دوره 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011