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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of Nasa, Washington, DC (US);
Gerard Quilligan, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Shahid Aslam, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Nicolas Gorius, Washington, DC (US);
Daniel Glavin, Greenbelt, MD (US);
John Kolasinski, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Dat Tran, Washington, DC (US);
United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus include one or more DACs and a resistor divider are configured to generate a variable bias voltage Vwith respect to a CM voltage V. The CM voltage Vis applied to a cathode of one or more thermopiles or a negative input of one or more amplifiers to prevent saturation and over range of one or more low voltage readout amplifiers and one or more ADCs.