Analog-to-digital converter and thermopile array
AssigneeCsmc Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd.
InventorsChen LI, Hao WANG
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Abstract
An analog-to-digital converter and a thermopile array. The analog-to-digital converter comprises: a reference voltage generation circuit comprising a voltage generation unit; a chopping modulation unit used to perform chopping modulation on a voltage signal generated by the voltage generation unit, and to modulate low frequency noise of the voltage signal into high frequency noise; and a low-pass filter used to eliminate the high frequency noise to obtain a reference voltage. The invention employs a simple structure to obtain a low noise reference voltage at low costs.
Claims15
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC), applied to a thermopile array, the ADC comprising a reference voltage generation circuit including:
- a voltage generation unit;
- a chopping modulation unit configured to perform chopping modulation on a voltage signal generated by the voltage generation unit, and modulate low-frequency noise of the voltage signal into high-frequency noise;
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- a low-pass filter configured to eliminate the high-frequency noise to obtain a reference voltage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.