A chopper stabilized biasing circuit suitable for cascaded wheatstone-bridge-like sensors

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1653-1665

  Hébrard, Luc ^a   Kammerer, Jean Baptiste ^a   Braun, Francis ^a  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

Biasing circuit; Chopper stabilization; Hall device; Sensors cascade; Sensors network; Wheatstone bridge

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HALL EFFECT DEVICES; MAGNETIC DEVICES; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

BIASING CIRCUIT; CHOPPER STABILIZATION; SENSORS CASCADE; SENSORS NETWORK; WHEATSTONE BRIDGE;

CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 26444483889     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.852022     Document Type: Article

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