| Preface | 10 |
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| Acknowledgements | 11 |
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| 1 Introduction | 13 |
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| 1.1 Motivation | 13 |
| 1.2 Offset | 15 |
| 1.2.1 Drain current mismatch | 16 |
| 1.2.2 Folded cascode amplifier offset | 17 |
| 1.2.3 Minimizing offset | 18 |
| 1.3 Challenges | 19 |
| 1.4 Organisation of the book | 20 |
| 1.5 References | 22 |
| 2 Dynamic Offset Compensation Techniques | 24 |
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| 2.1 Introduction | 24 |
| 2.2 Auto-zero amplifiers | 25 |
| 2.2.1 Output offset storage | 25 |
| 2.2.2 Input offset storage | 27 |
| 2.2.3 Auxiliary amplifier | 28 |
| 2.2.4 Noise in auto-zero amplifiers | 30 |
| 2.3 Chopper amplifiers | 34 |
| 2.3.1 Noise in chopper amplifiers | 36 |
| 2.3.2 Chopped operational amplifier in a feedback network | 37 |
| 2.3.3 Charge injection effects in chopper amplifiers | 38 |
| 2.4 Chopped auto-zeroed amplifier | 40 |
| 2.5 Switching non-idealities | 42 |
| 2.5.1 Charge injection reduction tactics | 44 |
| 2.5.2 Charge injection suppression circuits | 47 |
| 2.6 Conclusions | 51 |
| 2.7 References | 51 |
| 3 Dynamic Offset Compensated Operational Amplifiers | 54 |
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| 3.1 Introduction | 54 |
| 3.2 Ping-pong operational amplifier | 55 |
| 3.3 Offset-stabilized amplifiers | 56 |
| 3.3.1 Auto-zero offset-stabilized amplifiers | 58 |
| 3.3.2 Chopper offset-stabilized amplifiers | 59 |
| 3.3.3 Frequency compensation | 61 |
| 3.3.4 Chopper stabilized amplifiers with ripple filters | 66 |
| 3.3.5 Chopper and auto-zero stabilized amplifiers | 69 |
| 3.4 Chopper offset-stabilized chopper amplifiers | 70 |
| 3.4.1 Iterative offset-stabilization | 72 |
| 3.5 Conclusions | 74 |
| 3.6 References | 75 |
| 4 Dynamic Offset Compensated Instrumentation Amplifiers | 78 |
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| 4.1 Introduction | 78 |
| 4.1.1 Current-feedback instrumentation amplifiers | 80 |
| 4.2 Dynamic offset compensated instrumentation amplifiers | 85 |
| 4.2.1 Chopper instrumentation amplifier | 86 |
| 4.2.2 Auto-zeroed instrumentation amplifier | 87 |
| 4.2.3 Ping-pong instrumentation amplifier | 89 |
| 4.2.4 Ping-pong-pang instrumentation amplifier | 89 |
| 4.2.5 Offset-stabilized instrumentation amplifiers | 90 |
| 4.2.6 Chopper offset-stabilized chopper instrumentation amplifier | 93 |
| 4.3 Conclusions | 93 |
| 4.4 References | 93 |
| 5 Realizations of Operational Amplifiers 5 | 96 |
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| 5.1 Introduction | 96 |
| 5.2 Chopper offset-stabilized operational amplifier | 97 |
| 5.2.1 Topology | 97 |
| 5.2.2 Circuits | 102 |
| 5.2.3 Measurement results | 109 |
| 5.3 Chopper and auto-zero offset-stabilized operational amplifier | 115 |
| 5.3.1 Topology | 115 |
| 5.3.2 Circuits | 118 |
| 5.3.3 Measurement results | 123 |
| 5.4 Conclusions | 126 |
| 5.5 References | 127 |
| 6 Realizations of Instrumentation Amplifiers | 128 |
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| 6.1 Introduction | 128 |
| 6.2 Low-offset indirect current-feedback instrumentation amplifier | 129 |
| 6.2.1 Introduction | 129 |
| 6.2.2 Topology | 129 |
| 6.2.3 Circuits | 133 |
| 6.2.4 Measurement results | 135 |
| 6.3 High-side current-sense amplifier | 140 |
| 6.3.1 Current-sensing | 140 |
| 6.3.2 Topology | 144 |
| 6.3.3 Circuits | 149 |
| 6.3.4 Measurement results | 154 |
| 6.4 Conclusions | 158 |
| 6.5 References | 160 |
| 7 Conclusions and Future Directions | 162 |
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| 7.1 Conclusions | 162 |
| 7.2 Future directions | 162 |
| A Layout Issues | 166 |
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| A.1 Introduction | 166 |
| A.2 Chopper layout | 168 |
| A.3 Clock shielding | 171 |
| A.4 Conclusion | 173 |
| A.5 References | 173 |
| About the Authors | 174 |
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| Index | 177 |