Abstract:
Amplifiers with power-on trim and methods using an amplifier system having an amplifier system input and an amplifier system output, an amplifier, a comparator, a successive approximation register having an input coupled to an output of the comparator, a first switch for switching an input of the amplifier from the amplifier system input to shorting the amplifier input, a second switch for switching an output of the amplifier from the amplifier system output to an input of the comparator, an output of the successive approximation register being coupled to an N bit digital to analog (D/A) converter, the D/A converter being a non-binary converter using a radix of less than 2 for at least the most significant bits, and an output of the D/A converter being coupled to the amplifier to control the input offset of the amplifier. Novel embodiments for the amplifier, comparator and D/A converter are disclosed.
Abstract:
The inventive amplifier stage calibration comprises the following steps: creating conditions that are suitable for calibrating the amplifier stage; comparing signals output by the amplifier stage or comparing electrical quantities occurring inside the amplifier stage with one another or with assigned reference values, and; modifying the attributes of the amplifier stage based on the result of the comparison. The described compensation of errors in amplifier stages of series-connected components is effected by correspondingly calibrating the amplifier stage. The inventive devices and methods enable the calibration of amplifier stages and the compensation for errors in amplifier stages of series-connected components to be carried out rapidly and precisely in an astonishingly simple manner.
Abstract:
The inventive amplifier stage calibration comprises the following steps: creating conditions that are suitable for calibrating the amplifier stage; comparing signals output by the amplifier stage or comparing electrical quantities occurring inside the amplifier stage with one another or with assigned reference values, and; modifying the attributes of the amplifier stage based on the result of the comparison. The described compensation of errors in amplifier stages of series-connected components is effected by correspondingly calibrating the amplifier stage. The inventive devices and methods enable the calibration of amplifier stages and the compensation for errors in amplifier stages of series-connected components to be carried out rapidly and precisely in an astonishingly simple manner.
Abstract:
A multi-stage, low-offset, fast-recovery, comparator system and method for: reducing the input offset voltage of the zeroing amplifier by a factor essentially equal to gain of the zeroing amplifier; reducing the input offset voltage of the combined main and zeroing amplifiers by a factor essentially equal to the product of the gains of the main and zeroing amplifiers; and amplifying the input signal to the amplification stage in accordance with the gain of the main amplifier to generate an amplified high-resolution signal.
Abstract:
An amplifier circuit having offset voltage and offset voltage drift corrections which does not require resistive feedback and is suitable for use with unmatched high frequency field effect transistor circuits. The circuit cancels the offset voltage of a signal amplifier (10,20) and comprises means (11-14; 21-24) for applying differential voltages to an operational amplifier (10;20), together with a switchable feedback connecting the output of the amplifier to one of its inputs and a capacitor (14;24) coupled between the feedback input (10b,20b) of the amplifier, and one of the differential voltages. This allows amplifying of low level AC signals while reducing the error introduced by the offset voltage or the offset voltage drift of the amplifier.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an offset free differential amplifier and an offset free method of a differential amplifier capable of removing an offset of a differential amplifier by selectively using at least one of an auto zero method and a chopping method. The offset free differential amplifier includes a differential amplifier; a chopping switch unit that is connected to two input terminals and one output terminal of the differential amplifier in response to a chopping control signal and removes an average offset of the differential amplifier; and an auto-zero switch unit that is connected to the differential amplifier and the chopping switch unit in response to an auto-zero switch control signal and removes an absolute offset of the differential amplifier.