{"title":"A 13nV/✓Hz 4.5μW Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier with Robust Ripple Reduction and Input Impedance Boosting Techniques","authors":"Liang Fang, P. Gui","doi":"10.1109/CICC48029.2020.9075876","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a 13n V /✓Hz Capacitively-coupled Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier (CCIA) implemented in 180nm CMOS. Two new techniques are proposed to address two known drawbacks of CCIAs, chopping ripple and limited input impedance. An improved dynamic offset zeroing (iDOZ) is proposed to suppress the chopping ripple to a mean value of 300μ V and a standard deviation of 500μV, with negligible power, area and noise overhead. A highly-linear three-terminal varactor is proposed in the positive feedback loop of the CCIA to boost the input impedance by 1000 times. This design consumes 4.5 μW power and achieves a noise efficiency factor of 1.3 and a power efficiency factor of 1.1.","PeriodicalId":409525,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2020 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC48029.2020.9075876","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents a 13n V /✓Hz Capacitively-coupled Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier (CCIA) implemented in 180nm CMOS. Two new techniques are proposed to address two known drawbacks of CCIAs, chopping ripple and limited input impedance. An improved dynamic offset zeroing (iDOZ) is proposed to suppress the chopping ripple to a mean value of 300μ V and a standard deviation of 500μV, with negligible power, area and noise overhead. A highly-linear three-terminal varactor is proposed in the positive feedback loop of the CCIA to boost the input impedance by 1000 times. This design consumes 4.5 μW power and achieves a noise efficiency factor of 1.3 and a power efficiency factor of 1.1.