Low-Noise Multimodal Reconfigurable Sensor Readout Circuit for Voltage/Current/Resistive/Capacitive Microsensors
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Abstract
This paper presents a low-noise reconfigurable sensor readout circuit with a multimodal sensing chain for voltage/current/resistive/capacitive microsensors such that it can interface with a voltage, current, resistive, or capacitive microsensor, and can be reconfigured for a specific sensor application. The multimodal sensor readout circuit consists of a reconfigurable amplifier, programmable gain amplifier (PGA), low-pass filter (LPF), and analog-to-digital converter (ADC). A chopper stabilization technique was implemented in a multi-path operational amplifier to mitigate 1/f noise and offsets. The 1/f noise and offsets were up-converted by a chopper circuit and caused an output ripple. An AC-coupled ripple rejection loop (RRL) was implemented to reduce the output ripple caused by the chopper. When the amplifier was operated in the discrete-time mode, for example, the capacitive-sensing mode, a correlated double sampling (CDS) scheme reduced the low-frequency noise. The readout circuit was designed to use the 0.18-µm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process with an active area of 9.61 mm2. The total power consumption was 2.552 mW with a 1.8-V supply voltage. The measured input referred noise in the voltage-sensing mode was 5.25 µVrms from 1 Hz to 200 Hz.
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OpenAlex topics: Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design · Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems · Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
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Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea
National Nanofab Center, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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