摘要:
The chopper type differential amplifier according to this invention includes a differential amplifier having a first input end and a second input end, a first input terminal supplied with a first input signal, a second input terminal supplied with a second input signal, a first MOS gate capacitor having its gate electrode connected to the first input end of the differential amplifier and its lower electrode connected to the first input terminla, a second MOS gate capacitor having its gate electrode connected to the second input end of the differential amplifier and its lower electrode connected to the second input terminla, and a precharging circuit which supplies a precharging voltage to the gate electrode of the first MOS gate capacitor and the gate electrode of the second MOS gate capacitor during the precharging period, wherein the precharging voltage is a voltage which is all the time higher than the voltages of the first input signal and the second input signal.
摘要:
Chopper amplifiers with tracking of multiple input offsets are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, a chopper amplifier includes chopper amplifier circuitry including an input chopping circuit, an amplification circuit, and an output chopping circuit electrically connected along a signal path. The amplification circuit includes two or more pairs of input transistors, from which a control circuit chooses a selected pair of input transistors to amplify an input signal. The chopper amplifier further incudes an offset correction circuit that senses the signal path to generate an input offset compensation signal for the amplification circuit. Furthermore, the offset correction circuit separately tracks an input offset of each of the two or more pairs of input transistors.
摘要:
According to an aspect of the invention, it is provided a magnetic operational amplifier having a differential stage (1) comprising a first magnetic field effect transistor MAGFET (11) and a differential signal conditioner, the differential signal conditioner comprising a charge stage (151), a differential input pair (153) connected to the charge stage (151) and a biasing current source (155) connected to the differential input pair (153); the magnetic field effect transistor MAGFET (11) being connected to the charge stage (151) as a second differential input pair and the differential signal conditioner comprising a second biasing current source (156) connected to the magnetic field effect transistor MAGFET (11).
摘要:
An active electrode has an electrode for sensing an electric potential and generating an input signal, and a shield placed near the electrode but being electric insulated from the electrode. An integrated amplifier (10) has an input connected to the at least one electrode for receiving the input signal, and providing a buffered path outputting a buffered output signal. The shield being connected to the output of the integrated amplifier to actively drive the electrical potential of the shield, thereby providing an active shielding of the electrode. The buffered path includes a first mixer (11) in front of the integrated amplifier for frequency shifting the input signal from a basic frequency range to a higher frequency range, and a second mixer (12) on the output of the integrated amplifier for frequency shifting the amplified signal from the higher frequency range back to the basic frequency range. The active electrode may be used for recording EEG signals.
摘要:
A chopper amplifier includes a chopper modulator to modulate a certain detection signal and a bias voltage by a certain control signal and output a chopper modulation signal, a first differential amplifier to differentially amplify the chopper modulation signal from the chopper modulator and output a differential modulation signal, a chopper demodulator to demodulate the differential modulation signal from the first differential amplifier by the control signal and output a demodulation signal, a second differential amplifier to extract a detection signal component from the demodulation signal, and a plurality of filters connected at an input terminal of the second differential amplifier and having different cutoff frequencies from each other relative to the demodulation signal.
摘要:
A bandgap voltage reference circuit ( 100 ) for generating a bandgap voltage reference ( Vbg ). Said circuit comprises a current generator ( 104 ) controlled by a first driving voltage ( Vpgate ) for generating a first current ( Iptat ) depending on the driving voltage, and a first reference circuit element ( 102 ) coupled to the controlled current generator ( 104 ) for receiving the first current and generating a first reference voltage ( Vpluse ) in response to the first current. The circuit further comprises a second reference circuit element ( 106 ) for receiving a second current ( Iptat ) corresponding to the first current; said second reference circuit element is adapted to generate a second reference voltage ( Vminuse ) in response to the second current. Said circuit further comprises a third reference circuit element ( 128 ) for receiving a third current ( Iptat ) corresponding to the first current and generating the bandgap reference voltage in response to the third current, and an operational amplifier ( 124 ). The operational amplifier has a first input terminal coupled to the first circuit element for receiving a first reference voltage input ( Vplus ) based on the first reference voltage, a second input terminal coupled to the second reference circuit element for receive a second input voltage ( Vminus ) based on the second reference voltage and an output terminal coupled to the controlled current generator to provide the first driving voltage ( Vpgate ) to the current generator according to the difference between the first input voltage and the second input voltage. The circuit also comprises a control circuit ( 134 ) comprising first capacitive means ( 136 ) and second capacitive means ( 138 ). The first capacitive means have a first terminal coupled to the first reference circuit element to receive the first reference voltage and a second terminal coupled to the first input terminal to provide the first input voltage. The second capacitive means comprise a first terminal coupled to the second reference circuit element for receiving the second reference voltage and a second terminal coupled to the second input terminal to provide the second input voltage. The control circuit also comprises biasing means ( 140 ) to selectively provide a common-mode voltage ( Vcm ) to the second terminals of the first and second capacitive means.
摘要:
A switching amplifier system which in one embodiment includes switching circuitry (25) responsive to a tri-state command signal for providing a power output from a power supply (27) which has amplitude levels, time durations, and polarities corresponding to the tri-state command signal for supply to a load (19) via a suitable filter (18). A further embodiment includes a linear amplifier (53), the switching circuitry responding to a fourth state command signal for actuating the linear amplifier to respond directly to an input signal when the amplitude of the input signal is below a selected level.
摘要:
A single-ended operational amplifier uses a plurality of chopper circuits (9, 16, 24) to alternately transpose matched transistor pairs for cancelling offset errors due to transistor mismatches from statistical process variations. The differential input signals are transposed while simultaneously transposing the currents in a current mirror (14, 15) and in the load devices (37). The matched devices comprising an output stage (36) remain untransposed since their contribution to offset error is minimal but their contribution to noise error would be substantial due to the potentially larger voltage differentials existing between them.
摘要:
A switchable analogue signal inverter suitable for inverting an input D.C. voltage as required, for example inverting the D.C. voltage from a digital to analogue converter (DAC) and thereby halving the size of the DAC. Essentially the inverter comprises a capacitor (C) having one side alternately switchable between a reference voltage point and an output terminal (30) and another side alternately switchable between the reference voltage point and an input signal terminal (18) and switching means (S1, S2) for selectively reversing the phasing of the switching between the reference voltage and the input signal. In one embodiment the inverter comprises a double pole reversing switch (51, S2) having inputs (20 to 23) connected to a signal input terminal (18) and to a reference voltage point (ground) and a capacitor (C) connected by a change-over switch (S3) to first and second outputs of the reversing switch (S1, S2) and by another change-over switch (S4) to a signal output terminal (30) or to the reference voltage point. The reversing switch is operable in response to a polarity change signal (24) to reverse the signal applied to the first and second outputs and thereby determine the polarity of the voltage pumped by the capacitor (C) to the output terminal (30) by clocking the change-over switches (S3 S4). The switches may be implemented by field effect transistors