Analysis of the Switched-Capacitor Dual-Slope Capacitance-to-Digital Converter
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...In fact, in this paper, one can find several other circuits for capacitance measurement, but most of them use techniques that are most appropriate for integrated circuit design (such as the use of switched capacitors) [20]–[23]....
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...As in a typical dual slope technique, here too, to initiate a conversion, the digitizer has to invoke an auto-zero phase to set the output to zero [26]....
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...Capacitance-to-digital converters (CDCs) based on charge balancing [17], dual-slope [18], and sigma-delta [19] methods have been reported....
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...To obtain a measurable output relative to the parameter being sensed by a capacitive sensor, a signal-conditioning circuit that converts the variations in the sensor capacitances C1 and C2 to a proportional analog voltage or current is required [ 1 ], [2]....
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...The value of (v̄(2) c1,1 + v̄ 2 c1,2) is 2kT/C1 [17], where k is the Boltzmann constant (k = 1....
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...A charge-balancing-type capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) reported earlier employs a very complicated switching arrangement [8]....
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