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1Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract:
In this article, a novel front-end circuit for remote two-wire resistive sensors that is insensitive to the wire resistances is proposed and experimentally characterized. The circuit relies on an OpAmp-based current source with a square-wave excitation, two twin diodes in the feedback path, and a low-pass filter at the output. Using such a circuit topology, the output is a DC voltage proportional to the sensor resistance and independent of the wire resistances. A prototype was built measuring resistances that correspond to a Pt100 thermal sensor and with different values of wire resistance. The experimental results show that the output voltage is almost insensitive to both the wire resistances and their mismatch, with a relative error (with respect to the case with null parasitic resistance) in the range of 0.01-0.03% Full-Scale Span (FSS). In addition, the proposed circuit shows a remarkable linearity (around 0.01% FSS), and again this is independent of the presence and also of the mismatch of the wire resistances.
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