Title :
Design of Low Level Current to Frequency Converter (10-8 to 10-13 A)
Author :
El Hennawy, A. ; Lemaitre, R. ; Barbier, D.
Author_Institution :
EFCIS, Grenoble, France
Abstract :
The current to frequency converter (CIF) is fully integrated in aluminium gate P channel E/D MOS technology. It is designed for measuring low level current (10-8 to 10-13 A). Experimentally the CIF works well in the range from 5 × 10-13 to 5 × 10-8A, but some non linearity problems were observed and explained in this paper.
Keywords :
MOS integrated circuits; frequency convertors; integrated circuit design; aluminium gate P channel MOS technology; current to frequency converter; low level current; Capacitors; Current measurement; Frequency conversion; Frequency measurement; Leakage current; Linearity; Operational amplifiers; Resistors; Sampling methods; Threshold voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Solid State Circuits Conferene, 1980. ESSCIRC 80. 6th European
Conference_Location :
Grenoble
DOI :
10.1109/ESSCIRC.1980.5468782