CONVERSOR ANALÓGICO-DIGITAL INTEGRADOR A CAPACITOR CHAVEADO COM FAIXA DE ENTRADA PROGRAMÁVEL

Abstract

Programmable integrated circuits for specified applications enable its adjustment after fabrication, to fit more than one application within a certain set of applications. These circuits are flexible, but could lose in performance when compared to other circuit constructed to serve only a specific application. A programmable system can be applied to measurements involving a set of sensors with different characteristics of signals and an analog-to-digital converter. The signal range for each sensor should be adjusted as close to the input range of analog-digital converter as possible, to ensure the measurement with the full range of the signal. A solution for ensure the adjustable ranges is the employ a measurement system with programmable conditioning circuit. In this work, an analog-to-digital converter with adjustable input range is proposed, providing, equivalently, an adjustable gain value to the analog input signal. The gain values compose a minimum set to ensure no loss of measurement range of the signal, with loss of resolution within an acceptable limit. The proposed converter is a discrete integrator type with switched capacitor circuits. Behavioral and SPICE simulations were performed to validate the proposed converter.