Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Resistive sensor based data acquisition system using low distortion analog front-end and digital gain error correction
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Application No.: US16987254Application Date: 2020-08-06
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Publication No.: US11290120B2Publication Date: 2022-03-29
- Inventor: Seung Bae Lee , John L. Melanson , Anindya Bhattacharya , Prashanth Drakshapalli
- Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Applicant Address: GB Edinburgh
- Assignee: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: GB Edinburgh
- Agent E. Alan Davis; James W. Huffman
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; H03M1/38 ; H03M1/08 ; H03M1/06 ; H03M1/10

Abstract:
A data acquisition system (DAS) for processing an input signal from a resistive sensor (e.g., Hall effect sensor) includes a sensor signal path that digitizes the input signal. An input impedance of the sensor signal path attenuates the input signal. A gain error corrector applies a gain error correction factor in a digital domain of the DAS to the digitized input signal to compensate for a loading effect to the resistive sensor. The sensor signal path includes an inverting amplifier that provides low distortion for the input signal and an ADC (e.g., delta-sigma, SAR, pipelined, auxiliary) that digitizes the input signal. A sensor characterization path digitizes the sensor resistance which the gain error corrector uses, along with the inverting amplifier input impedance, to calculate the gain error correction factor.
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