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Area of Science:

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Sensor Technology
  • Integrated Circuit Design

Background:

  • Electric field mill sensors require precise noise filtering for accurate measurements.
  • Integrating passive components in sensor interfaces is often challenging and limits performance.
  • Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA)-based configurations offer a solution for passive element replacement in integrated circuits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and present an integrated bandpass filter for the noise filtering stage of an electric field mill sensor.
  • To explore filter integration techniques to overcome limitations of passive element integration.
  • To achieve superior performance and an optimized silicon-to-cost ratio in an entirely integrated field mill sensing system.

Main Methods:

  • Comparison of four different CMOS filter implementations using OTA-based configurations in a 0.18 μm XFAB process.
  • Evaluation of cascaded filter topologies and leapfrog techniques for passive element replacement.
  • Analysis of noise performance, total harmonic distortion, dynamic range, power consumption, integrability, silicon area, and process variation effects.

Main Results:

  • Identified an optimum filter design balancing performance and process considerations.
  • Demonstrated the feasibility of integrating the filter into a complete field mill sensor readout circuit.
  • Presented post-layout simulation results validating the performance of the integrated analog readout circuit.

Conclusions:

  • The developed integrated bandpass filter effectively addresses noise filtering requirements for electric field mill sensors.
  • The OTA-based integration approach successfully replaces challenging passive elements, enhancing system performance and cost-efficiency.
  • The study provides a viable design for a fully integrated field mill sensing system with improved characteristics.