A chopped Hall sensor with small jitter and programmable "True Power-on" function

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1533-1540

  Motz, Mario ^a   Draxelmayr, Dieter ^a   Werth, Tobias ^a   Forster, Bernhard ^a  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chopper; Hall effect; Magnetic sensor

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HALL EFFECT; JITTER; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOS CAPACITORS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

CHOPPER; HALL SENSORS; MAGNETIC SENSORS; TPO SWITCHING LEVEL;

SENSORS;

EID: 22544435551     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.847488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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