Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hall sensor readout circuit, corresponding device and method
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Application No.: US17211149Application Date: 2021-03-24
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Publication No.: US11675024B2Publication Date: 2023-06-13
- Inventor: Paolo Angelini , Roberto Pio Baorda , Danilo Karim Kaddouri
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Crowe & Dunlevy
- Priority: IT 2017000071213 2017.06.26
- Main IPC: G01R33/07
- IPC: G01R33/07 ; G01R33/00 ; G01R15/20

Abstract:
Hall sensing signals are received in a spinning readout pattern of subsequent readout phases, wherein the pattern is cyclically repeated at a spinning frequency and a polarity of the Hall sensor signals is reversed in two non-adjacent readout phases of the readout pattern. A signal storage circuit includes signal storage capacitors. An accumulation circuit includes accumulation capacitors. A switch network is selectively actuated to couple the signal storage capacitors with the accumulation capacitors synchronously with phases in the spinning readout pattern in subsequent alternating first and second periods. The spinning output is stored with alternating opposite signs on the signal storage capacitors and the Hall sensing signals are stored in the signal storage capacitors and then accumulated on the accumulation capacitors with alternate signs in subsequent periods. The accumulated output signal is then demodulated with a demodulation frequency half the spinning frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210208212A1 HALL SENSOR READOUT CIRCUIT, CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2021-07-08
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