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Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023

Filed:

May. 24, 2022
Applicant:

Hang Zhou Nano Core Chip Electronic Technology Co.,ltd, Hangzhou, CN;

Inventors:

Le Ye, Hangzhou, CN;

Heyi Li, Hangzhou, CN;

Ru Huang, Hangzhou, CN;

Yuanxin Bao, Hangzhou, CN;

Hao Zhang, Hangzhou, CN;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/24 (2006.01); G01R 27/26 (2006.01); H03F 3/70 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/24 (2013.01); G01R 27/2605 (2013.01); H03F 3/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a capacitive sensor chip based on a power-aware dynamic charge-domain amplifier array. The capacitive sensor chip is based on a zoom architecture and includes: an architecture having two or more stages for capacitive quantization in which a first stage performs coarse quantization using a successive approximation register (SAR) and a second stage performs fine quantization using a delta-sigma modulator, an amplifier in the capacitive sensor chip is powered by a floating capacitor, the floating capacitor is connected to a power supply to being charged and connected to the amplifier to power the amplifier by controlling switches; a first-order integrator of the delta-sigma modulator includes an amplifier array having a scale of N bits and 2amplifiers where N is a positive integer. By the capacitive sensor chip based on the power-aware dynamic charge-domain amplifier array, utilization efficiency of charges can be effectively improved, power consumption overheads nay be effectively saved, energy efficiency of a system is greatly improved and a driving capability of the subsequent-stage amplifier may be adaptively distributed according to the size of an input capacitance.


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