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US 2015/0176964 A1Published application
Magnetic Field Sensor and Related Techniques That Inject An Error Correction Signal Into a Signal Channel To Result In Reduced Error
AssigneeAllegro MicroSystems, LLC
InventorsBruno Luis Uberti, Alejandro G. Milesi
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Abstract
A magnetic field sensor has an error correction signal generator circuit to inject an error correction signal into a primary signal channel to cancel an error signal component in the primary signal channel.
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A magnetic field sensor, comprising:
- a plurality of magnetic field sensing elements configured to generate a respective plurality of x-y output signals, wherein each one of the x-y output signals is responsive to a magnetic field in an x-y plane;
- a sequence switches circuit coupled to receive the plurality of x-y output signals and configured to generate a sequential signal comprised of sequential ones of the plurality of x-y output signals, wherein the sequential signal comprises a time waveform comprising an error component;
- an angle processing channel coupled to receive the sequential signal, wherein the angle processing channel comprises:
- an angle processing channel output node;
- an electronic filter having an input node and an output node, wherein the electronic filter is configured to generate a filtered signal at the output node of the electronic filter, and wherein the output node of the electronic filter is coupled to the angle processing channel output node;
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- a summing circuit having first and second input nodes and an output node, wherein the first input node is coupled to receive a signal representative of the sequential signal and the output node is coupled to the input node of the electronic filter, wherein the magnetic field sensor further comprises:
- an error correction signal generator circuit having an output node, the error correction signal generator circuit for generating an error correction signal at the output node, wherein the output node of the error correction signal generator circuit is coupled to the second input node of the summing circuit, wherein the error correction signal comprises a plurality of states including a high state and a low state, wherein the electronic filter is configured to generate the filtered signal with a corrected error component smaller than the error component of the sequential signal.
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A method of reducing an error in a magnetic field sensor, comprising:
- providing a plurality of magnetic field sensing elements configured to generate a respective plurality of x-y output signals, wherein each one of the x-y output signals is responsive to a magnetic field in an x-y plane;
- using the plurality of x-y output signals to generate a sequential signal comprised of sequential ones of the plurality of x-y output signals, wherein the sequential signal comprises a time waveform comprising an error component;
- generating an error correction signal, wherein the error correction signal comprises a plurality of states including a high state and a low state;
- summing the error correction signal with the sequential signal to generate a summed signal;
- filtering the summed signal to generate a corrected signal with a corrected error component smaller than the error component of the sequential signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.