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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2006
Applicant:
Rongtai Wang, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Inventor:
Rongtai Wang, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Assignee:
Emerson Process Management, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A two phase, second order capacitance-to-digital (CD) modulator includes a first stage sigma-delta integrator that forms charge packets as a function of sensor capacitance during an auto-zero phase and integrates the packets during an integration phase to produce an output voltage. The first stage integrator holds its output voltage during the auto-zero phase, so that a second stage sigma-delta integrator can sample the first stage output voltage during the auto-zero phase and integrate the sampled voltage during the integration phase.