A Low-power Low-noise Capacitive Readout Circuit for Accelerometers

Konferenz: EMIE 2022 - The 2nd International Conference on Electronic Materials and Information Engineering
15.04.2022 - 17.04.2022 in Hangzhou, China

Tagungsband: EMIE 2022

Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

Autoren:
Kong, Dameng; Duan, Quanzhen; Huang, Shengming (School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, Tianjin, China)

Inhalt:
This paper presents an capacitive micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometer readout circuit with ultralow- power (ULP). To achieve ultra-low-power characteristics, this circuit is based on self-balancing bridge (SBB) architecture that can reduce the noise requirement on amplifiers and do not require additional power consumption. Furthermore, the proposed circuit adopts a novel circuit scheme, namely, the feedforward noise reduction technique (FNRT), which removes some associated noise. Simulation results show that the designed readout circuit uses a fixed 1V supply and a common-mode voltage of 0.5V achieves 463 nW/√Hz noise levels and 152 nW power consumption.