Readout circuits for capacitive sensors

Y Yoo, BD Choi - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The development of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) processes enables the
integration of capacitive sensors into silicon integrated circuits. These sensors have been …

Power-efficiency evolution of capacitive sensor interfaces

Z Tan, H Jiang, H Zhang, X Tang, H Xin… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed an improvement in the energy efficiency of capacitive sensor
interfaces by more than three orders of magnitude. This article reviews the architectural and …

Energy-efficient CMOS humidity sensors using adaptive range-shift zoom CDC and power-aware floating inverter amplifier array

H Li, Z Tan, Y Bao, H Xiao, H Zhang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an adaptive zoom-capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC)-based CMOS
humidity sensor. The humidity sensor is realized by means of two differential capacitors …

A Fully Dynamic Event-Driven Capacitive Sensor Interface Circuits Based on Self-Reconfigurable SAR Capacitance-to-Digital Conversion for High-Density Robotic …

Y Chen, T Cai, Y Kuang, J Dong… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covering robots entirely with electronic skins (e-skins) has been a long-term aspiration.
However, the number and density of the tactile sensors are limited by factors such as routing …

23.1 A 7.9fJ/Conversion-Step and 37.12aFrms Pipelined-SAR Capacitance-to-Digital Converter with kT/C Noise Cancellation and Incomplete-Settling-Based …

J Gao, L Shen, H Li, S Ye, J Li, X Xu… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In IoT sensor applications, capacitive sensors are widely used to convert various
capacitances into digital signals, and the demand for power-efficient high-resolution …

A 50.7-dB-DR finger-resistance extracting multi-touch sensor IC for soft classification of fingers contacted on 6.7-in capacitive touch screen panel

TG Song, DK Kim, JH Cho, JH Lee… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents multi-touch readout IC embedding finger-resistance extraction (FRE) on
a capacitive touch screen panel (TSP). The proposed FRE mode is aimed to have the ability …

An Energy-Efficient, High-Resolution kT/C-Noise-Canceled Pipelined-SAR Capacitance-to-Digital Converter With Incomplete-Settling-Based Correlated Level Shifting …

J Gao, S Ye, J Li, X Xu, Z Chen, J Cui… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a high-resolution and energy-efficient pipelined-successive-
approximation-register (SAR) capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC). The converter uses a …

A 187-dB FoM Power-Efficient Second-Order Highpass Capacitance-to-Digital Converter

Y Jung, S Oh, S Ha, M Je - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The escalating demand for high-resolution sensor interface systems, driven by the
proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable smart devices, has led to the …

Design of a Capacitance-to-Digital Converter Based on Iterative Delay-Chain Discharge in 180 nm CMOS Technology

M Cicalini, M Piotto, P Bruschi, M Dei - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The design of advanced miniaturized ultra-low power interfaces for sensors is extremely
important for energy-constrained monitoring applications, such as wearable, ingestible and …

A low-computing-complexity touch signal detection method and analog front-end circuits based on cross-correlation technology for large-size touch panel

X Guo, H Li, Y Chen, W Sun - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a low-computing-complexity touch signal detection method and analog
front-end (AFE) circuits based on cross-correlation technology for large mutual capacitance …