A wide measurement range and fast update rate integrated interface for capacitive sensors array

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 2-11

  Zhang, Xu ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Chen, Hong ^b   Wang, Zhihua ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Capacitance to digital converter (CDC); capacitive sensors array; multi steps quantization; non uniform sampling; signal conditioning

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; QUANTIZATION (SIGNAL); SENSOR ARRAYS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CAPACITANCE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER; CURRENT CONSUMPTION; DISTRIBUTED SAMPLINGS; FRONT-END CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED INTERFACE; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MULTI-STEP; NONUNIFORM SAMPLING;

CAPACITIVE SENSORS;

EID: 84892586734     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2013.2264696     Document Type: Article

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