AZKA cell, the current-mode alternative of Wheatstone bridge
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...Several recent examples of small-area IAs are given in [9]–[12]....
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...As current mode IAs [19]–[21] are more complex, this leads to high-power consumption than the voltage mode counterparts [4], [22]....
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...Apart from being miniature, also critical for precision IAs are low power, low offset, low noise and high common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR)....
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...The prior arts of the low offset and ripple reduction techniques for chopping IAs are reviewed in Section II....
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...For the sensor noise consideration, the noise at the IAs inputs contributed by the strain gauge resistors is vn,strain−gauge = √ 4kT R f (18) where f is the signal bandwidth....
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...The second approach, used in [4] to implement a CMWB using operational floating current conveyor (OFCC), has a higher accuracy, as the output current does not depend on (as we will prove later in Section II-B)....
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...Recently, a method based on the circuit duality concept [3] has been developed to develop a current-mode Wheatstone bridge (CMWB) [4]....
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...In [4], two different topologies to implement a CMWB have been proposed....
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...Experimental results for R = R = 1 k to compare between the CMR of the proposed CMWB and the CMWB based on CCII in [4]....
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...On the other hand, the common-mode current of the CMWB based on CCII in [4], also shown in Fig....
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...AZKA Cell: A Current-Mode Wheatstone Bridge As an alternative to the traditional voltage-mode Wheatstone bridge, a current-mode Wheatstone bridge has been proposed based on the circuit dualilty concept [6]....
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...73 circuitarrangements with operational amplifiers, secondgeneration current conveyors (CCII), or operational floating current conveyors (OFCC) [6], [7]....
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...One end of both resistors is tied together, while the other end is forced to be equipotential, that is, V1 = V2, by a differential current or transimpedance instrumentation amplifier, which can be implemented by a number of ETRI Journal, Volume 29, Number 1, February 2007 Apinunt Thanachayanont et al. 73 circuitarrangements with operational amplifiers, secondgeneration current conveyors (CCII), or operational floating current conveyors (OFCC) [6], [7]....
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...3(b), has been proposed in [6] and is called the AZKA cell....
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...Compared with the traditional voltage-mode Wheatstone bridge, the AZKA cell offers a number of advantages, including reduction of resistive sensing elements, summation of sensors’ effects (namely, superposition ability), and simple linearization technique [6]....
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...In his paper on the AZKA cell [6]—AZKA stands for the authors’ names, Azhari-Kaabi—Azhari introduced the dual circuit of a four resistors bridge....
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