A 15nW per Button Noise-Immune Readout IC for Capacitive Touch Sensor

Conference paper (2018)

Authors

Said Hussaini Student
H. Jiang Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
Paul Walsh Cypress Semiconductor, Cork
Dermot MacSweeney Cypress Semiconductor, Cork
K.A.A. Makinwa Microelectronics
Research Group
Electronic Instrumentation (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2018 Said Hussaini, H. Jiang, Paul Walsh, Dermot MacSweeney, K.A.A. Makinwa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC.2018.8494283
CDC Asynchronous tracking logic Stand-alone touch sensor Ultra-low power oscillator
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Microelectronics

Research Group

Electronic Instrumentation

Abstract

This paper presents a readout IC that uses an asynchronous charge-redistribution-based capacitance-to-digital-converter (CDC) to digitize the capacitance of a touch sensor. Thanks to the power efficient tracking algorithm, the CDC consumes negligible power consumption in the absence of touch events. To facilitate stand-alone or wake-on-touch applications, the CDC can be periodically triggered by a co-integrated ultra-low power relaxation oscillator. At a 38 Hz scan-rate, the readout IC consumes 15 nW per touch sensor, which is the lowest reported to date.

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