A low-power, wide-dynamic-range semi-digital universal sensor readout circuit using pulsewidth modulation

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1134-1144

  Lu, Julia Hsin Lin ^a   Inerowicz, Mac ^b   Joo, Sanghoon ^a   Kwon, Jong Kee ^c   Jung, Byunghoo ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Capacitive and resistive sensors; CMOS sensor interface; pulsewidth modulation (PWM); wide dynamic range

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; CHARGING TIME; CIRCUIT ANALYSIS; CMOS CIRCUITS; CMOS SENSOR INTERFACES; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DUTY CYCLES; LOW COMPLEXITY; LOW POWER; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NOISE ANALYSIS; POWER CONSUMPTION; PULSE SIGNAL; PULSEWIDTH MODULATION (PWM); READ-OUT CIRCUIT; RESISTANCE CHANGE; RESISTIVE SENSOR; SENSING RANGES; SENSOR INTERFACE; SENSOR READOUT; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DESIGN; MODULATION; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; READOUT SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952824471     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2085430     Document Type: Article

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