Amplification interface, and corresponding measurement system and method for operating an amplification interface
AssigneeSTMicroelectronics S.r.l.
InventorsCalogero Marco Ippolito, Michele Vaiana
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AssigneeSTMicroelectronics S.r.l.
InventorsCalogero Marco Ippolito, Michele Vaiana
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An electronic amplification-interface circuit includes a differential-current reading circuit having a first input terminal and a second input terminal. The differential-current reading circuit includes a continuous-time sigma-delta conversion circuit formed by an integrator-and-adder module generating an output signal that is coupled to an input of a multilevel-quantizer circuit configured to output a multilevel quantized signal. The integrator-and-adder module includes a differential current-integrator circuit configured to output a voltage proportional to an integral of a difference between currents received at the first and second input terminals. A digital-to-analog converter, driven by a respective reference current, receives and converts the multilevel quantized signal into a differential analog feedback signal. The integrator-and-adder module adds the differential analog feedback signal to the differential signal formed at the first and second input terminals.
An amplification-interface circuit of a sensor circuit formed by a first field effect transistor (FET) and a second FET arranged in a differential pair to supply a differential current to a first node and a second node, comprising:
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