• DocumentCode
    3011535
  • Title

    Bidirectional current conveyer with chopper stabilization and dynamic element matching

  • Author

    Jafari, Hamed Mazhab ; Genov, Roman

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    20-23 May 2012
  • Firstpage
    1079
  • Lastpage
    1082
  • Abstract
    A compact and accurate current conveyer for interfacing with a three-electrode electrochemical sensor is presented. It employs chopper stabilization to reduce transistor sizes for a given flicker noise. A current-copying circuit generates a mirror image of the sensor current for bidirectional conveying. It employs dynamic element matching to remove the mismatch in the current mirrors. The current conveyer prototyped in 0.13µm CMOS consumes 4µW from a 1.2V supply. It achieves an input-referred noise of 0.13pArms over a 1kHz bandwidth with a dynamic range of 8.6pA to 350nA. The prototype has been validated in DNA catalytic reporter detection.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; Choppers (circuits); Electrodes; Mirrors; Noise; Sensors; Transistors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul, Korea (South)
  • ISSN
    0271-4302
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0218-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271416
  • Filename
    6271416