This invention introduces a highly efficient current generator designed to produce precise square wave currents across a wide range, from nanoamps to microamps, with minimal noise and improved accuracy. By employing a single floating current source, it effectively cancels out noise and mismatches that typically arise from multiple sources, ensuring reliable measurements. The system mitigates errors caused by parasitic capacitances, maintaining linearity over a broad range of resistances and expanding its applicability to capacitive sensing applications through parameter adjustments.
- Utilizes a single floating current source to eliminate noise and mismatches associated with multiple current sources.
- Enables noise cancellation directly at the output currents (I1 and I2), ensuring high accuracy.
- Minimizes errors from parasitic capacitances, significantly enhancing measurement precision.
- Achieves linear output over a broad range of resistances, expanding measurement capabilities.
- Adaptable for capacitive sensing applications through parameter tuning, enhancing versatility.
- Utilizes a single floating current source to eliminate noise and mismatches associated with multiple current sources.
- Enables noise cancellation directly at the output currents (I1 and I2), ensuring high accuracy.
- Minimizes errors from parasitic capacitances, significantly enhancing measurement precision.
- Achieves linear output over a broad range of resistances, expanding measurement capabilities.
- Adaptable for capacitive sensing applications through parameter tuning, enhancing versatility.
The test chip and test board are fabricated, measurements are performed in a lab environment. An early prototype has been developed and demonstrated..
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- Enhances reliability of electronic devices in various sectors by improving measurement accuracy and reducing noise interference.
- Facilitates advancements in sensor technology, benefiting fields such as healthcare, agriculture, and industrial automation with more precise monitoring capabilities.
Healthcare (medical diagnostics and wearable health monitoring devices), Electronics manufacturing (precision instrumentation and test equipment), Aerospace and defense (sensor systems and instrumentation), Automotive (vehicle diagnostics and sensor technology), Environmental monitoring (weather stations and climate sensors)
- Enables precise current generation for sensor calibration in medical devices and electronic instrumentation.
- Improves accuracy and reliability in sensor systems across industries such as aerospace, automotive diagnostics, and environmental monitoring.
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