Digital converter for differential capacitive sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2576-2581

  Mohan, N Madhu ^a   Shet, Amol Ravikant ^a,b   Kedarnath, S ^a   Kumar, V Jagadeesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (India)

Author keywords

Capacitance to digital converter; Differential capacitive sensor; Digital converter; Dual slope technique; Sensor signal conditioning

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; CIRCUIT PARAMETERS; DIFFERENTIAL CAPACITIVE SENSOR; DIFFERENTIAL CAPACITIVE SENSORS; DIGITAL CONVERSIONS; DIGITAL CONVERTER; DIGITAL CONVERTERS; DIGITAL VALUES; DUAL-SLOPE TECHNIQUE; GAIN ERRORS; SENSOR SIGNAL CONDITIONING; SIMULATION STUDIES;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 54949142801     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.922109     Document Type: Article

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