A Fill-In Technique for Robust IMD Suppression in Chopper Amplifiers

C.T. Rooijers; S. Karmakar; Y. Kusuda; J.H. Huijsing; K.A.A. Makinwa

doi:10.1109/JSSC.2021.3107350

A Fill-In Technique for Robust IMD Suppression in Chopper Amplifiers

C.T. Rooijers, S. Karmakar, Y. Kusuda, J.H. Huijsing, K.A.A. Makinwa

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In chopper amplifiers, the interaction between the input signal and the chopper clock can give rise to intermodulation distortion (IMD). This chopper-induced IMD is mainly due to amplifier delay, which causes large pulses at the output of the amplifier's output chopper. This article proposes the use of a so-called fill-in technique to eliminate these pulses, and thus the resulting IMD, by multiplexing the outputs of two identical amplifiers that are chopped in quadrature. A prototype chopper-stabilized amplifier was implemented in a 180-nm CMOS process. Measurements show that the fill-in technique suppresses chopper-induced IMD by 28 dB, resulting in an IMD of -126 dB for input frequencies near 4 F_CH (=80 kHz). It also improves the amplifier's two-tone IMD (with 79 and 80 kHz inputs) from -97 to -107 dB, which is the same as that obtained without chopping.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3583-3592
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits
Volume	56
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2021.3107350
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Auto-zeroing
chopping
dynamic offset compensation
fill-in technique
Intermodulation distortion

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