摘要:
A method of testing an integrated circuit includes setting a guardbanded limit for a parameter associated with an embedded node, a deviation from the guardbanded limit under a set of test conditions correlated with a failure of the integrated circuit across a range of operating conditions. A test is performed under the test conditions to detect deviations of the parameter from the guardbanded limit to detect failures of the integrated circuit over the range of operating conditions.
摘要:
A method of testing an integrated circuit including a plurality of test nodes includes initiating a test mode and, during a first time interval of the test mode, stepping a level of a supply current of the integrated circuit to a calibration level. Parameters are observed at the plurality of test nodes to detect errors during a second time interval of the test mode and the level of the supply current selectively stepped in response to a number of errors detected. The level of the supply current is decoded to identify the detected errors.
摘要:
A method of testing an integrated circuit including the steps of observing a selected parameter at a selected test mode to detect an error. The current to the integrated circuit is stepped from a reference level by selected amount.
摘要:
Disclosed in this application is the placement of an additional integrator between the first stage integrator output and the input to the attenuator/low pass filter. This approach reduces the input referred offset by a factor equal to the gain of the additional integrator, and the offset of the additional integrator itself will be divided by the gain of the first-stage integrator.
摘要:
Disclosed is a chopper-stabilized amplifier with current steering used as output switching and to be operated in a low power supply voltage environment.
摘要:
An amplifier is disclosed including multiple integrator stages. The amplifier includes a low-frequency path from a signal input to a signal output and relatively higher-frequency bypass paths around the first integrator stage. The paths converge at a summing node. To prevent instability when the integrators are saturated by large signals, the circuit includes a saturation detector which disables the relatively low-frequency paths during such saturation conditions.
摘要:
A switched capacitor circuit 300, including a sampling capacitor 303, switches 301, 304 for charging the sampling capacitor 303 during a charging phase, and switches 302, 305 for transferring charge from the sampling capacitor 303 to a load 313 in the feedback loop of an operational amplifier 312 during a dump phase. Circuitry 701 controls the discharge of sampling capacitor 303 during the dump phase to minimize transients at the input of the operational amplifier 312 and thereby minimize input threshold voltage variation.
摘要:
A signal processing integrated circuit has having a chopper stabilized, multistage, feedforward amplifier and a delta sigma analog to digital converter. Filtering of the output of the output from the analog to digital converter comprises a sinc5 filter and a sinc3 filter. The sinc3 filter may be bypassed. A rough buffer permits quick charging of a sample and hold capacitor during part of the charge cycle and slower but more accurate charging during the remainder of the charge cycle.
摘要:
An instrumentation circuit has an integrated circuit that has input terminals, an amplifier arrangement using feed forward compensation and an analog to digital converter and a serial data output receiving the output from said amplifier arrangement. A bridge circuit, having a transducer, or a thermocouple arrangement are connected to input terminals of the integrated circuit.
摘要:
A method of operating an amplifier circuit having a pre-charge phase and a sample/conversion phase includes, during a pre-charge phase, charging first and second capacitors to first and second bias voltages. The first capacitor is coupled to a first input of an amplifier circuit, which has a second input and an output. The second capacitor is coupled to the second input. During a sample/conversion phase, the first input of the amplifier circuit is coupled to an input signal through the first capacitor to level-shift the input signal according to the first bias voltage and the output of the amplifier is coupled to the second input through the second capacitor to level shift a feedback signal according to the second bias voltage.