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Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 12, 2022
Applicant:

Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology Inc., Hsinchu, TW;

Inventor:

Yi-Chou Huang, Hsinchu, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/26 (2006.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01); H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/2605 (2013.01); H03F 3/45475 (2013.01); H03M 3/30 (2013.01); H03F 2200/213 (2013.01); H03F 2200/271 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45156 (2013.01);
Abstract

A capacitance measure circuit includes a charge to voltage converter (CVC), and the CVC includes an excitation signal generation circuit that is arranged to generate and connect an excitation signal to a first terminal of a capacitance sensor, a differential amplifier, a first switch circuit, and at least one first variable capacitor. The inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier is arranged to receive a sensing capacitance value from a second terminal of the capacitance sensor. The first switch circuit is coupled between the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting output terminal of the differential amplifier, and is connected in parallel with the at least one first variable capacitor at the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting output terminal of the differential amplifier.


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