A bandgap voltage reference is presented with a piecewise linear compensating circuit in order to reduce the temperature coefficient.The basic principle is to divide the whole operating temperature range into some su...A bandgap voltage reference is presented with a piecewise linear compensating circuit in order to reduce the temperature coefficient.The basic principle is to divide the whole operating temperature range into some sub ranges.At different temperature sub ranges the bandgap reference can be compensated by different linear functions.Since the temperature sub range is much narrower than the whole range,the compensation error can be reduced significantly.Theoretically,the precision can be improved unlimitedly if the sub ranges are narrow enough.In the given example,with only three temperature sub ranges,the temperature coefficient of a conventional bandgap reference drops from 1 5×10 -5 /℃ to 2×10 -6 /℃ over the -40℃ to 120℃ temperature range.展开更多
A new method is presented in this paper for fitting VFC*ss (voltage to frequency converter) output functions by using high order neural networks. The nonlinear estimation is implemented when the VFC110 is used at a...A new method is presented in this paper for fitting VFC*ss (voltage to frequency converter) output functions by using high order neural networks. The nonlinear estimation is implemented when the VFC110 is used at a full scale output frequency of 4 MHz. Two kinds of on line dynamic calibrating circuits are designed to improve the sampling precision. This method can also be applied to different industrial applications.展开更多
文摘A bandgap voltage reference is presented with a piecewise linear compensating circuit in order to reduce the temperature coefficient.The basic principle is to divide the whole operating temperature range into some sub ranges.At different temperature sub ranges the bandgap reference can be compensated by different linear functions.Since the temperature sub range is much narrower than the whole range,the compensation error can be reduced significantly.Theoretically,the precision can be improved unlimitedly if the sub ranges are narrow enough.In the given example,with only three temperature sub ranges,the temperature coefficient of a conventional bandgap reference drops from 1 5×10 -5 /℃ to 2×10 -6 /℃ over the -40℃ to 120℃ temperature range.
文摘A new method is presented in this paper for fitting VFC*ss (voltage to frequency converter) output functions by using high order neural networks. The nonlinear estimation is implemented when the VFC110 is used at a full scale output frequency of 4 MHz. Two kinds of on line dynamic calibrating circuits are designed to improve the sampling precision. This method can also be applied to different industrial applications.
