On-Line Error Correction in Sensor Interface Circuits by Using Adaptive Filtering and Digital Calibration

Abstract

Numerous non-ideal effects can distort the functionality of sensor interfaces and have to be considered during the design phase. In order to relax the requirements for the analog circuit components, adaptive filtering and digital calibration are used in this work to detect and correct different gain-and offset-errors. The error detection is performed by transmitting a test signal through the sensor interface continuously and in parallel to the sensor signal. In the digital domain, variations of the test signal are evaluated and present errors can be determined and eliminated. In this way, an on-line error correction is realized, which makes the sensor interface more robust against static and dynamic non-idealities. The proposed concept is demonstrated by correcting different gain-and offset-errors in a 65nm CMOS sensor interface.