Analysis of the switched-capacitor dual-slope capacitance-to-digital converter

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 997-1006

  George, Boby ^a   Kumar, V Jagadeesh ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Capacitance to digital converter (CDC); Capacitive sensor; Dual slope digital converter; Integrating type converters

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; CAPACITANCE VALUES; CAPACITANCE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER; CAPACITIVE SENSOR; COMPONENT PARAMETERS; CONVERSION SPEED; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; DIFFERENTIAL CAPACITIVE SENSORS; DIGITAL CONVERTERS; DIGITAL OUTPUT; DUAL-SLOPE TECHNIQUE; INPUT-OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; REFERENCE VOLTAGES; SWITCHED CAPACITOR; WORST-CASE ERRORS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CAPACITANCE; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS;

SENSORS;

EID: 77950918156     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2038000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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