A low-noise interface circuit for MEMS cochlea-mimicking acoustic sensors
A low-noise interface circuit for MEMS cochlea-mimicking acoustic sensors
This paper proposes a low-noise MEMS interface circuit which has very small parasitic capacitance at the input node. The circuit presented is suitable for the MEMS cochlea-mimicking acoustic sensors which are highly parasitic-sensitive due to their low intrinsic sensing capacitance. In order to reduce the electronic noise of the interface circuit, chopper stabilization technique is implemented, and an effective method to optimize the critical transistor size for best noise performance is derived. Simulation results show that, for a MEMS sensing structure with 200 fF static capacitance, the interface circuit achieves a 0.72 aF equivalent capacitance noise floor over 100 Hz to 20 kHz audio bandwidth.
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Wang, Shiwei
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28 September 2012
Wang, Shiwei
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Koickal, Thomas Jacob
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Hamilton, A.
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Mastropaolo, E.
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Latif, R.
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Cheung, R.
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Wang, Shiwei, Koickal, Thomas Jacob, Hamilton, A., Mastropaolo, E., Latif, R., Cheung, R., Newton, M. and Smith, L.
(2012)
A low-noise interface circuit for MEMS cochlea-mimicking acoustic sensors.
2012 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2012, , Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
20 - 23 May 2012.
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(doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271436).
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This paper proposes a low-noise MEMS interface circuit which has very small parasitic capacitance at the input node. The circuit presented is suitable for the MEMS cochlea-mimicking acoustic sensors which are highly parasitic-sensitive due to their low intrinsic sensing capacitance. In order to reduce the electronic noise of the interface circuit, chopper stabilization technique is implemented, and an effective method to optimize the critical transistor size for best noise performance is derived. Simulation results show that, for a MEMS sensing structure with 200 fF static capacitance, the interface circuit achieves a 0.72 aF equivalent capacitance noise floor over 100 Hz to 20 kHz audio bandwidth.
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Published date: 28 September 2012
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2012 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2012, , Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2012-05-20 - 2012-05-23
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