摘要:
A control circuit for use with a four terminal sensor, such as a glucose sensor. The Glucose sensor is a volume product and typically its manufacture will want to make it as inexpensively as possible. This may give rise to variable impedances surrounding the active cell of the sensor. Typically the sensor has first and second drive terminals and first and second measurement terminals, so as to help overcome the impedance problem. The control circuit is arranged to drive at least one of the first and second drive terminals with an excitation signal, and control the excitation signal such that a voltage difference between the first and second measurement terminals is within a target range of voltages. To allow the control circuit to work with a variety of measurement cell types the control circuit further comprises voltage level shifters for adjusting a voltage at one or both of the drive terminals, or for adjusting a voltage received from one or both of the measurement terminals.
摘要:
An analog to digital converter comprising an Nth analog to digital converter and an N+1th analog to digital converter arranged in series such that a residue signal from the Nth analog to digital converter is provided as an input to the N+1th analog to digital converter, characterised in that a bandwidth control means is provided in a signal path for the residue signal and the bandwidth control means is controlled so as to have a first bandwidth during a first period following generation of a conversion result from the Nth analog to digital converter, and a second bandwidth less than the first bandwidth in a second period following the first period.
摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention provide an integrated circuit system including a first active layer fabricated on a front side of a semiconductor die and a second pre-fabricated layer on a back side of the semiconductor die and having electrical components embodied therein, wherein the electrical components include at least one discrete passive component. The integrated circuit system also includes at least one electrical path coupling the first active layer and the second pre-fabricated layer.
摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention provide an integrated circuit system including a first active layer fabricated on a front side of a semiconductor die and a second pre-fabricated layer on a back side of the semiconductor die and having electrical components embodied therein, wherein the electrical components include at least one discrete passive component. The integrated circuit system also includes at least one electrical path coupling the first active layer and the second pre-fabricated layer.
摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention provide an integrated circuit system including a first active layer fabricated on a front side of a semiconductor die and a second pre-fabricated layer on a back side of the semiconductor die and having electrical components embodied therein, wherein the electrical components include at least one discrete passive component. The integrated circuit system also includes at least one electrical path coupling the first active layer and the second pre-fabricated layer.
摘要:
A programmable gain amplifier (“PGA”) may include a differential amplifier, a pair of input capacitors, a pair of feedback capacitors provided in feedback configuration about the amplifier, a first chop circuit, provided at an input of the PGA and an output of the PGA and a second chop circuit provided at an output of the PGA. The PGA also may include circuit systems to sample voltages across the input capacitors in a sampling phase. The sampled voltages may correspond to a difference between a common mode voltage of input signals to the PGA and a common mode voltage of the differential amplifier. The sampled voltage, thus, defines a common mode voltage at the amplifier's inputs during other phases of operation, when the chop circuits are operational.
摘要:
A sigma delta modulator may include a loop filter and an adder configured to accept an output of the loop filter and a dither input signal. The adder may be further configured to combine the output of the loop filter and the dither input signal into a combined output signal. The sigma delta modulator may further include a quantizer configured to accept the combined output signal from the adder, and quantize the combined signal into a quantizer output signal. The sigma delta modulator may further include a first subtractor configured to accept the quantizer output signal and subtract the dither input signal from the quantizer output signal.
摘要:
A detector circuit can include an integrator having an amplifier, a first feedback capacitor connected between an input and output of the amplifier, one or more additional feedback capacitors connected by at least one switch between the input and output of the amplifier, and a shunt capacitor connected to the output of the amplifier. The shunt capacitor can be selected to have a capacitance value greater than that of a minimum but less than that of a maximum feedback capacitance. The detector circuit can further include a sampling circuit having a sampling capacitor connected to the output of the integrator amplifier through at least one switch, wherein the sampling capacitor is separate from the shunt capacitor. A computed tomography imaging apparatus can include the detector circuit.
摘要:
An analog to digital converter adapted to perform a first, more significant, part of a conversion as a successive approximation conversion, a pipeline conversion or a flash conversion and a second, least significant, part of a conversion as a sigma-delta conversion.