A general circuit for resistive bridge sensors with bitstream output

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 954-960

  Fasoli, Luca G ^a   Riedijk, Frank R ^b   Huijsing, Johan H ^b  

^a Wafer Scale Integration   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analog digital conversion; Bipolar integrated circuits; Bridge circuits; Choppers; Intelligent sensors; Sigma delta modulation

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BANDWIDTH; BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS); DELTA MODULATION; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

INTELLIGENT SENSORS; RESISTIVE BRIDGE SENSORS; SIGMA DELTA MODULATION;

SENSORS;

EID: 0031200615     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.650807     Document Type: Article

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