Abstract
This paper presents a temperature-stable system for wide-bandwidth contactless current sensing. It employs a multipath combination of Hall sensors (low frequencies) and coils (high frequencies) to sense the magnetic field produced by a current-carrying conductor under a chip. To cancel the effect of earth's common-mode field, a differential sensing arrangement is used. This is further exploited to stabilize the Hall sensor's temperature drift with the help of a self-generated AC commonmode field. In a test chip fabricated in a 0.18 μm CMOS process, the stabilization scheme reduces the Hall sensor's sensitivity drift from 22% to 1% from -45°C to 105°C, corresponding to a temperature coefficient of 76 ppm/°C. The complete system has a bandwidth of 3 MHz, which represents a 10x improvement on previous low-drift CMOS magnetic sensors.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ESSCIRC Conference 2016 |
Subtitle of host publication | 42nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 397-400 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-5090-2972-3 |
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Publication status | Published - 20 Oct 2016 |
Event | ESSDERC-ESSCIRC 2016: 42nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference - Lausanne, Switzerland Duration: 12 Sep 2016 → 15 Sep 2016 Conference number: 42 http://esscirc-essderc2016.epfl.ch/ |
Conference
Conference | ESSDERC-ESSCIRC 2016 |
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Abbreviated title | ESSDERC-ESSCIRC |
Country/Territory | Switzerland |
City | Lausanne |
Period | 12/09/16 → 15/09/16 |
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Keywords
- Magnetic sensors
- Temperature sensors
- Sensivity
- Coils
- Temperature measurement
- Spinning