Analysis of a sigma-delta resistance-to-digital converter for differential resistive sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1617-1622

  Mohan, N Madhu ^a   George, Boby ^b   Kumar, V Jagadeesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Differential resistive sensor; Direct digital converter; Resistance to digital converter (RDC); Sigma delta ( ) converter; Signal conditioning

Indexed keywords

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSIONS; CIRCUIT PARAMETERS; DIFFERENTIAL RESISTIVE SENSOR; DIGITAL OUTPUTS; DIRECT DIGITAL CONVERTER; LINEARLY PROPORTIONALS; RESISTANCE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER (RDC); SENSITIVITY TO VARIATIONS; SIGNAL CONDITIONING; WORST-CASE ERRORS;

DELTA SIGMA MODULATION; FORCE MEASUREMENT; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS;

EID: 67349175259     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2012949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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