Electronic technique and circuit topology for accurate distance-independent contactless readout of passive LC sensors

Contactless readout of passive LC sensors composed of a capacitance sensor connected to a coil can be performed through a readout coil electromagnetically coupled with the sensor coil. Resonant frequency and quality factor can be extracted from the impedance measured at the readout coil by a technique which results theoretically independent of the coupling, and, therefore, the distance between the readout and the sensor coils. However, the effect of the unavoidable parasitic capacitance connected to the readout coil introduces in practice an undesired dependence of the measured values on the distance between the coils, resulting in a decreased accuracy. In this paper, such dependence is predicted by the results of a numerical analysis and experimentally verified. To overcome this limitation, a novel electronic technique and circuit topology for the compensation of the readout parasitic capacitance is proposed. The experimental results show that the compensation technique allows to read the resonant frequency of a LC pair at around 5.3 MHz with a variation of less than 200 ppm across an interrogation distance between 2 and 24 mm.     

微悬臂谐振传感器闭环接口和嵌入式频率电路

设计了谐振式微悬臂梁传感器闭环接口和嵌入式频率读出电路。首先,谐振式微悬臂梁传感器和接口电路组成闭环自激振荡系统。为了提高该闭环系统的频率稳定性和频率跟踪性能,引入具有无相差频率跟踪的锁相环电路,并设计放大移相电路以满足闭环自激振荡条件。该闭环系统的频率稳定性可达±0.1Hz,并且能够实时跟踪悬臂梁谐振频率的变化。此外,单独设计了嵌入式的频率读出电路,用于检测并显示悬臂梁的谐振频率。将悬臂梁传感器、接口电路和频率读出电路集成在一起,做出了小巧便携式样机,用该样机可成功探测到体积分数低至约几个10-9量级的DMMP气体。     

硅微机械谐振式压力传感器组合敏感原理

为解决硅微机械谐振式压力传感器的微弱信号检测问题,并改善其可靠性和动态响应,提出在传感器原有结构上增加辅助传感器,构成组合敏感原理。利用根据辅助传感器测量结果推算出的谐振频率近似值,可控制带通滤波器的中心频率以改善噪声抑制;可及时判断闭环系统失效;可在闭环系统失效状态下继续部分维持传感器的测量功能。辅助传感器的制造工艺与主传感器兼容,附加成本低。     

36kV/10kW CO2激光器充电电源的研制

为了改善现有CO2激光器工频LC谐振充电时充电电压随激光器工作频率升高而降低、影响激光输出的稳定性和光束质量,不利于装置的小型化和轻量化的问题。采用全桥逆变结构和串联谐振软开关电路,研究了36kV/10kW高频高压充电电源。该电源系统采用三相380V交流电作为供电系统,大功率智能功率模块作为全桥逆变电路。逆变交流信号经串联谐振电路及高频脉冲变压器得到高压脉冲信号,高压脉冲经整流给负载电容充电,电源应用电压电流双闭环控制系统,输出电压、电流经采样及放大后,反馈到电源控制芯片SG3525,芯片SG3525通过判断反馈信号的大小,控制输出脉冲宽度调制驱动信号的占空比。激光器放电频率为25Hz时,电源输出电压为37kV,峰值输出功率为13.05kW,充电效率为0.826。结果表明,该高频高压充电电源适合用作CO2激光器的高压充电电源。     

基于FPGA的光弹调制器用高压驱动电路设计

为满足光弹调制器对高电压、高稳定和精确易控制的驱动电压需求,设计了一种基于FPGA控制、全桥结构LC谐振升压的高压驱动电路。该电路与传统的光弹调制器驱动控制电路相比,大幅降低了直流电源的电压输入要求,通过DDS调节方波频率来控制光弹调制器工作频率,调节方波占空比来控制输出电压。该电路应用于光弹调制器实验,结果表明在光弹调制器的谐振频率下,外部直流电压为5 V时,方波占空比范围为0~50%,对应电压峰-峰值可调节范围为0~840 V。电路具有稳定可靠、操控方便、带负载能力较强等优点,能够实现光弹调制器驱动电压实时精确的控制。     

CO2激光器高压高频充电电源的应用研究

为改善现有CO2激光器工频充电电源体积、重量大、充电精度低等缺点,开展高频高压充电电源的研究,研制一台采用全桥逆变结构和串联谐振软开关电路、输出电压36 kV、输出平均充电功率为10 kJ／s的高频高压充电电源。该电源系统采用三相380 VAC作为供电系统,大功率智能功率模块（IPM）作为全桥逆变电路,逆变交流信号经串联谐振电路及高频脉冲变压器得到高压脉冲信号,高压脉冲经整流给负载电容充电;同时,电源应用电压、电流双闭环控制系统,输出电压、电流经采样及放大反馈到电源控制芯片SG3525,SG3525通过判断反馈信号的大小控制输出PWM驱动信号的占空比。实验结果表明：电源输出电压36 kV,输出平均功率为10.8 kJ／s,充电效率为0.82,电源纹波系数为1％。电源系统保证了激光器稳定工作在30 Hz条件下。     

A CMOS smart temperature sensor with a 3/spl sigma/ inaccuracy of /spl plusmn/0.5/spl deg/C from -50/spl deg/C to 120/spl deg/C

A low-cost temperature sensor with on-chip sigma-delta ADC and digital bus interface was realized in a 0.5 /spl mu/m CMOS process. Substrate PNP transistors are used for temperature sensing and for generating the ADC's reference voltage. To obtain a high initial accuracy in the readout circuitry, chopper amplifiers and dynamic element matching are used. High linearity is obtained by using second-order curvature correction. With these measures, the sensor's temperature error is dominated by spread on the base-emitter voltage of the PNP transistors. This is trimmed after packaging by comparing the sensor's output with the die temperature measured using an extra on-chip calibration transistor. Compared to traditional calibration techniques, this procedure is much faster and therefore reduces production costs. The sensor is accurate to within /spl plusmn/0.5/spl deg/C (3/spl sigma/) from -50/spl deg/C to 120/spl deg/C.     

通信电子电路中的LC并联谐振回路

LC并联谐振回路是通信电子电路中常用的单元电路。通过电路分析得出它的幅频特性与相频特性,认为它在通信电子电路中的应用主要有三种类型,即放大器的选频匹配网络、反馈式正弦波振荡器的选频反馈网络、调制与解调电路中的幅频变换及频相转换器件。     

Interleaved soft switching resonant converter with a small input ripple current

ABSTRACT

An interleaved frequency control soft switching converter is studied for solar power or fuel cell power applications. The proposed circuit topology contains two parallel current-fed circuit cells with interleaved pulse-width modulation operation. Thus, the ripple currents at input and output terminals are decreased. In each circuit cell, the proposed current-fed dc-dc converter includes boost circuit and resonant circuit to achieve current ripple-free on low voltage side and less switching losses on active devices. The boost circuit and the resonant circuit have same active devices to decrease power switches. Due to the resonant behaviour, the reverse recovery current loss on secondary diodes is removed. The voltage doubler circuit topology is accomplished on secondary-side to reduce diode counts and conduction loss. The performance and effectiveness of the developed interleaved PWM current-fed converter are verified and confirmed by experiments.     

Design and implementation of an inverter output LC filter used fordv/dt reduction

This paper presents the design and analysis of a LC output filter for use with IGBT-based motor drive inverters. The LC filter is used to limit the rate of rise of the inverter output voltage and reduce common mode noise to the motor. In typical applications where dv/dt is limited to 100-500 V/μs, the resonant frequency of the filter is above the switching frequency. A diode bridge must therefore be used to clamp the resonant voltage. Resistors are also used to help dissipate the energy stored in the resonant circuit. Crucial to the design of the filter is the handling of the additional losses in the filter. The paper describes the design considerations for such a filter for use in a 460 V induction motor drive. The losses in the circuit are estimated to show the limitations of the filter. Experimental results illustrate the control of dv/dt at the inverter terminals, and the reduced peak voltage at the motor end of a long cable     

红外焦平面读出电路集成数字输出

为了实现红外焦平面数字化输出,设计了一种集成片上模数转换的焦平面读出电路,包括一个512512的读出电路单元阵列和列共享的逐次逼近寄存器型模数转换器(SAR ADC)。单元读出电路采用了直接注入(DI)结构作为输入级,输出的信号通过多路传输送到模数转换器。设计的逐次逼近型的模数转换器中的比较器采用的是由前置放大器、锁存器、自偏置差分放大器和输出驱动器组成的高速比较器,数模转换器(DAC)采用的是三段式的电荷按比例缩放和电压按比例缩放相结合的结构。在Cadence和Synopsys设计平台下对模拟和数字部分电路分别进行设计、仿真与版图设计。电路工艺采用GLOBALFOUNDRIES公司0.35 m CMOS 3.3 V工艺加工流片。测试结果显示SAR ADC有效位数为8.2位,转换频率超过150 k Samples/s,功耗低于300 W,满足焦平面100帧频以及低功耗的需求。     

Resonant converter controlled by variable capacitance devices

A new device called the variable capacitance device is proposed, and its application to the output voltage regulation of resonant converters is discussed. The new device has an independent input terminal for controlling its capacitance. The converters used are the well-known Schwarz circuit and the buck-type current-resonant converter with a resonant switch. By applying the devices to the capacitors in LC resonant tanks, the resonant converters can be regulated with the switching frequency fixed     

A high performance Σ-Δ readout circuitry for μg resolution microaccelerometers

This paper reports a second order electromechanical sigma-delta readout for micro-g resolution accelerometers in addition to other high-sensitivity capacitive microsensors with large base capacitance. The chip implements a switched-capacitor readout front-end and an oversampled sigma-delta modulator, and hence can be used for both open-loop analog readout and closed-loop control and readout with direct digital output. The readout circuit has more than 115 dB dynamic range and can resolve less than 3 aF/√Hz. Also this IC includes start-up circuit and feedback mechanism for closed-loop control of the accelerometer with a single 5 V supply in a ±4 g range. Together with the accelerometer, bandwidth of the overall system is limited with the sensor resonance frequency (1.53 kHz) in the open-loop mode. However in closed loop mode, oversampling of the acceleration data increases the bandwidth of the system up to few hundred kilohertz which is limited with the cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter placed at the output of the system. The start-up circuit allows rebalancing of a thick silicon proof mass with the limited 5 V supply after system start from power down or in the case of over-range input acceleration. The readout chip has been combined with a Silicon-On-Glass lateral accelerometer, which has a high sensitivity of 1.88 pF/g with large proof mass and long finger structures. A digital filtration and decimation circuitry is also implemented to signal process the output bit stream of the readout circuit. The complete module consumes 16 mW from a ±2.5 V supply and has an adjustable sensitivity up to 8 V/g with a noise level of 4.8 μg/√Hz in open-loop.     

Automatic Digital Method for Measuring the Permittivity of Thin Dielectric Films

One of the most promising techniques for measuring the electric permittivity at microwave frequencies of thin dielectric materials of the order of 0.1 to 10 /spl mu/m, is the cavity perturbation method. For thin films of this type, it is necessary to determine accurately and display small changes in the resonant frequency and Q factor of the cavity in the presence of the material sample. A circuit for the simultaneous measurement and digital readout of the resonant frequency and Q factor of microwave cavity is described. For the resonant frequency measurement, a very efficient automatic frequency circuit, with a homodyne modulation-detection bridge and frequency stabilization loop, is applied. Theoretical analysis and experiments results with this circuit show that an accuracy of 5x10/sup -7/can be achieved in the resonant frequency measurement. For measuring the Q factor, two similar circuits are described. The technique is based on measuring the phase shift of the envelope of an amplitude modulated microwave signal when this signal is transmitted through a resonant cavity at resonance. Although an accuracy of 0.5 percent in the Q factor can be achieved, it is shown that the main limiting factor in both circuits is the accuracy of phase shift determination at RF frequencies.     

Simple oscillators-based readout circuit for low-power biomedical implant system

This paper reports a wireless sensor readout circuit for continuous physiological parameters monitoring including a potentiostat, a data generation unit and a frequency-shift-keying (FSK) modulator unit with the low drop-out (LDO) regulator for biomedical implant system. The potentiostat can generate an output potential of 0.7?V for the data generation unit. The data generation unit is designed based on a relaxation oscillator scheme and can be used to sense a current signal from any amperometric biomedical sensor and convert the signal to a square waveform in which the frequency of the square wave signal is proportional to the sensor current. FSK modulation scheme has been selected for wireless transmission. Designed with a very simple ring oscillator, this modulator integrates the modulation functionality into the oscillator itself by using the data signal to control the oscillation frequency. The prototype circuits have been fabricated in a 0.35???m bulk complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. Working with a regulated 1.8?V supply, the potentiostat consumes only 2???A of current while the data generation unit can generate around 15.7?kHz output frequency with an input current of 1???A. The FSK modulator consumes a total current of around 19???A for a carrier frequency around 1?MHz. An off-chip demodulator is constructed to demodulate the data signal from the FSK modulator and the demodulated signal has less than 1.6?% variation of frequency.     

声光频移通信系统中接收技术研究

设计了基于声光频移技术的激光通信系统接收端系统,针对声光频移激光通信传输信号特点,利用LC谐振回路实现模拟选频,采用D触发器实现载波的数字下变频,最终通过现场可编程门阵列实现信号解调。最后对设计的模块进行测试,测试结果符合设计要求,实现了100MHz载波幅移键控信号的下变频以及基带信号的解调。     

一类零电流谐振开关电容变换器的特性分析

具有零电流开关特性的谐振开关电容变换器是开关电容变换器的一种新拓扑形式.本文着重分析电路寄生参数和变换器运行条件对该类谐振开关电容变换器稳态特性的影响,推出变换器输出电压和效率的数学表达式,为研究负载或输入电压变化时变换器的输出性能提供了分析和设计依据.基于输出电压表达式,还提出谐振开关电容变换器的频率控制方案.全文以一个降压式谐振开关电容变换器为例详细说明公式的推导过程,并将此稳态特性分析推广到其它类型的谐振开关电容变换器.最后,文中设计了一台12V/5V/2.5A降压式谐振开关电容变换器样机,实验结果验证了本文的理论分析结果.     

A 16-channel capacitance-to-period converter for capacitive sensor applications

An electronic system able to read out arrays of up to sixteen different capacitive type sensors is presented. The output signal of the readout is a square wave signal, with oscillation period linearly modulated by the respective sensor capacitance under measurement. Components such as charge/discharge current control unit, a multiplexing unit and a bandgap voltage reference are integrated on chip, to obtain a stable and linear readout system for multiple sensors of variable types and capacitance ranges. The ASIC was designed and fabricated in AMS 0.35???m CMOS technology and was hosted on a PCB together with a supervising microcontroller, which is programmed to produce ratiometric measurements using reference capacitances to minimise parasitic effects. Finally, a USB interface undertakes the task of communicating the results to a personal computer. Characterization of the system was performed using (a) discrete capacitances and (b) capacitive pressure sensors. The system was evaluated in a capacitance range of 10?C140?pF exhibiting high linearity (r?=?0.9954) with sensitivity of 0.062???s/pF when tested using in-house made capacitive pressure sensors.     

Two-wire bridge-to-frequency converter

An integrated two-wire bridge-to-frequency converter is presented for use as a remote-signal conditioner for sensor bridges such as strain-gauge bridges of platinum-wire temperature-sensing bridges. The converter has a sensitivity on the order of 1 Hz per 1-/spl mu/V/V relative bridge output. A center frequency of 10 kHz allows the application of an untrimmed bridge with an imbalance up to /spl plusmn/10000 /spl mu/V/V. The instability is less than 10/SUP -4/ per Kelvin and per 1-V supply-voltage variation. The untrimmed transfer inaccuracy is lower than 1%. The linearity error is lower than 0.01%. Different bridge readout functions can be chosen by different circuit configurations. The converter can be connected to a single supply voltage. The frequency output is modulated on the supply current. The supply voltage is 12-24 V.     

An isolated bridgeless AC-DC PFC converter using a LC resonant voltage doubler rectifier

This paper proposed an isolated bridgeless AC–DC power factor correction (PFC) converter using a LC resonant voltage doubler rectifier. The proposed converter is based on isolated conventional single-ended primary inductance converter (SEPIC) PFC converter. The conduction loss of rectification is reduced than a conventional one because the proposed converter is designed to eliminate a full-bridge rectifier at an input stage. Moreover, for zero-current switching (ZCS) operation and low voltage stresses of output diodes, the secondary of the proposed converter is designed as voltage doubler with a LC resonant tank. Additionally, an input–output electrical isolation is provided for safety standard. In conclusion, high power factor is achieved and efficiency is improved. The operational principles, steady-state analysis and design equations of the proposed converter are described in detail. Experimental results from a 60 W prototype at a constant switching frequency 100 kHz are presented to verify the performance of the proposed converter.