Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Preamplifier circuit for a microelectromechanical capacitive acoustic transducer
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Application No.: US14049126Application Date: 2013-10-08
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Publication No.: US09350305B2Publication Date: 2016-05-24
- Inventor: Filippo David , Igino Padovani
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Seed IP Law Group PLLC
- Priority: ITTO2009A0495 20090630
- Main IPC: H03F3/45
- IPC: H03F3/45 ; G05F3/30 ; H03F3/187 ; H04R19/01 ; H03F1/32

Abstract:
Described herein is a preamplifier circuit for a capacitive acoustic transducer provided with a MEMS detection structure that generates a capacitive variation as a function of an acoustic signal to be detected, starting from a capacitance at rest; the preamplifier circuit is provided with an amplification stage that generates a differential output signal correlated to the capacitive variation. In particular, the amplification stage is an input stage of the preamplifier circuit and has a fully differential amplifier having a first differential input (INP) directly connected to the MEMS detection structure and a second differential input (INN) connected to a reference capacitive element, which has a value of capacitance equal to the capacitance at rest of the MEMS detection structure and fixed with respect to the acoustic signal to be detected; the fully differential amplifier amplifies the capacitive variation and generates the differential output signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140037113A1 PREAMPLIFIER CIRCUIT FOR A MICROELECTROMECHANICAL CAPACITIVE ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER Public/Granted day:2014-02-06
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