A Continuous-Time Ripple Reduction Technique for Spinning-Current Hall sensors

Journal article (2014)

Authors

J. Jiang Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
WJ Kindt Texas Instruments Holland
K.A.A. Makinwa Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
Research Group
Electronic Instrumentation (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2014 J. Jiang, Wilco J. Kindt, K.A.A. Makinwa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2014.2319252
Hall sensor Ripple reduction loop (RRL) Spinning-current
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Published Date

2014

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Microelectronics

Research Group

Electronic Instrumentation

Abstract

This paper presents a new ripple-reduction technique for spinning-current Hall sensors, which obviates the need for lowpass filtering to suppress the ripple caused by up-modulated sensor offset. A continuous-time ripple-free output is achieved by the use of three ripple reduction loops (RRLs), which continuously sense the offset ripple and then use this information to drive a feedback
loop that cancels sensor offset before amplification. Since no low-pass filter is involved, the bandwidth of the resulting system can be much higher than the spinning frequency. Moreover, since the front-end no longer has to process sensor offset, the requirements on its dynamic range can be significantly relaxed. A prototype system consisting of a Hall sensor readout system realized in a 0.18 m CMOS process was combined with three off-chip RRLs realized with off-chip electronics.At a spinning frequency of 1 kHz, the RRLs reduce the offset ripple by more than 40 dB to about 10 T, while also achieving low offset (25 T) and wide bandwidth (over 100 kHz).