Low-Noise Chopper-Stabilized Zero-Drift Amplifier With SAR-Assisted Automatic Offset Calibration Loop
This paper presents a low-noise chopper-stabilized zero-drift amplifier with successive approximation register (SAR)-assisted automatic offset calibration loop (AOCL). The amplifier is designed using multipath zero-drift architecture including a low frequency path (LFP) and a high frequency path (HF...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2023-01-01
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| Series: | IEEE Access |
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| Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10347194/ |
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| Summary: | This paper presents a low-noise chopper-stabilized zero-drift amplifier with successive approximation register (SAR)-assisted automatic offset calibration loop (AOCL). The amplifier is designed using multipath zero-drift architecture including a low frequency path (LFP) and a high frequency path (HFP). The multipath architecture can achieve the low offset, the low noise and the low drift while maintaining the wide bandwidth. The LFP amplifier exploits a chopper scheme to reduce the offset and the low-frequency noise components. The digitally assisted AOCLs in the LFP and the HFP using SAR and current-mode digital-to-analog converter (DAC) can reduce the offset coarsely. The mismatch and the offset of the LFP amplifier can generate the up-modulated output ripples. The residual ripples in the LFP can be reduced using a ripple reduction loop (RRL). To prevent secondary ripple caused by the offset of the RRL itself, an auto-zero (AZ) integrator is employed. The HFP amplifier is designed using the folded-cascode structure with class-AB output stage to enhance the power efficiency. The multipath amplifier is fabricated in a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.18 ~\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> CMOS process. The current consumption, supply voltage and active area are <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$130 ~\mu \text{A}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, 1.8 V and 0.86 mm2, respectively. The amplifier has a unit gain bandwidth (UGBW) of 0.875 MHz, an input referred offset of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4.6 ~\mu \text{V}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, an input referred noise of 25.6 nV/<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\surd $ </tex-math></inline-formula>Hz, an offset drift of 53 nV/°C and a noise efficiency factor (NEF) of 11.2. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-3536 |