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Current cancellation circuit
Assignee: Rosemount Inc
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Filing: 1994-03-21
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Granted: 1996-10-08
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Expires: 2014-03-21
Abstract
Abstract A transmitter includes a sensor for sensing a primary process variable representative of a process, and providing a sensor output current. An integrator in the transmitter integrates the sensor output current. The integrator has an amplifier on an integrated circuit and an off-chip capacitor coupled between the inverting input on the amplifier and the amplifier output via two integrated circuit pads, which leak undesirable leakage current to the integrator. A leakage cancellation circuit is selectively connectable to the inverting input of the amplifier in the integrator, the cancellation circuit providing a current substantially opposite in polarity and equal in magnitude to the leakage current as a function of a stored voltage representative of the magnitude of the leakage current. A microprocessor based compensation circuit compensates the output of the integrator for repeatable errors which affect the process variable. A formatting circuit couples the compensated process variable to a two wire current loop.
Inventors
- 👤 Ramesh Harjani
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 13:21
CPC Classifications
H; H03; H03F; H03F3/00; H03F3/45; H03F3/45071; H03F3/45479; H03F3/45928; G; G08; G08C; G08C19/00; G08C19/02
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 20
Claim 1
Independent Claim
134 words
A transmitter, comprising: a sensor for sensing a process variable representative of a process, the sensor providing a sensor output current; an integrator having an input and an output representative of the integral of current entering the input, the input susceptible to a leakage current entering therein; a compensation circuit connected to the output of the integrator, for compensating the output for repeatable errors which affect the process variable; an output circuit for coupling the compensated output to a two wire current loop; and a cancellation circuit connected to the integrator input, the circuit periodically sampling the leakage current and providing a current to the integrator input substantially opposite in polarity and substantially equal in magnitude to the leakage current as a function of a stored charge representative of the magnitude of leakage current.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
134 words
A transmitter, comprising: a sensor for sensing a process variable representative of a process, the sensor providing a sensor output current; an integrator having an input and an output representative of the integral of current entering the input, the input susceptible to a leakage current entering therein; a compensation circuit connected to the output of the integrator, for compensating the output for repeatable errors which affect the process variable; an output circuit for coupling the compensated output to a two wire current loop; and a cancellation circuit connected to the integrator input, the circuit periodically sampling the leakage current and providing a current to the integrator input substantially opposite in polarity and substantially equal in magnitude to the leakage current as a function of a stored charge representative of the magnitude of leakage current.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
22 words
The transmitter of claim 1 including selective connections comprising switches and a compensation device selectively coupling the cancellation circuit to the integrator.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
41 words
The transmitter of claim 2 where each switch comprises a NMOS and a PMOS device, and where the NMOS transistors in each switch have substantially the same dimensions and where the PMOS transistors in each switch have substantially the same dimensions.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
38 words
The transmitter of claim 2 where each compensation device and each switch comprises a NMOS and a PMOS device, and where the transistors of each compensation device have substantially one-half the width of the transistors in the switch.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
36 words
The transmitter of claim 1 where the integrator includes an integrator transconductance amplifier and a capacitor having one terminal connected to the input of the integrator and another terminal connected to the output of the integrator.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
18 words
The transmitter of claim 5 where the integrator transconductance amplifier has a transconductance constant greater than 800 micromhos.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
36 words
The transmitter of claim 1 where the cancellation circuit comprises a cancellation transconductance amplifier and where the stored charge is stored on a capacitor having its terminals connected across the inputs of the cancellation transconductance amplifier.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
19 words
The transmitter of claim 7 where the cancellation transconductance amplifier has a transconductance constant of less than 3 micromhos.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
116 words
An integrated circuit, comprising: a first amplifier having an input connectable to a first capacitor through an input pad and an output connectable to the other terminal of the capacitor through an output pad, the input pad having a leakage current associated therewith; a cancellation circuit having a second amplifier, the amplifier having a second capacitor connected across its inputs, the second capacitor having one terminal selectably connectable to the input of the first amplifier for sampling the leakage current, the second amplifier providing a cancellation current as a function of a potential difference across the second capacitor, where the cancellation current has a magnitude substantially equal to and a polarity opposite of the leakage current.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
116 words
An integrated circuit, comprising: a first amplifier having an input connectable to a first capacitor through an input pad and an output connectable to the other terminal of the capacitor through an output pad, the input pad having a leakage current associated therewith; a cancellation circuit having a second amplifier, the amplifier having a second capacitor connected across its inputs, the second capacitor having one terminal selectably connectable to the input of the first amplifier for sampling the leakage current, the second amplifier providing a cancellation current as a function of a potential difference across the second capacitor, where the cancellation current has a magnitude substantially equal to and a polarity opposite of the leakage current.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
16 words
The circuit of claim 9 where the selective connections comprise a switch and a compensation device.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
41 words
The circuit of claim 10 where each switch comprises a NMOS and a PMOS device, and where the NMOS transistors in each switch have substantially the same dimensions and where the PMOS transistors in each switch have substantially the same dimensions.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
38 words
The circuit of claim 10 where each compensation device and each switch comprises a NMOS and a PMOS device, and where the transistors of each compensation device have substantially one-half the width of the transistors in the switch.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
13 words
The circuit as claimed in claim 9 where the integrated circuit is CMOS.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
13 words
The circuit as claimed in claim 9 where the integrated circuit is BICMOS.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
15 words
The circuit of claim 9 where the first and the second amplifiers are transconductance amplifiers.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
17 words
The circuit of claim 9 where the first amplifier has a transconductance constant greater than 800 micromhos.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
18 words
The circuit of claim 9 where the second amplifier has a transconductance constant of less than 3 micromhos.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
84 words
The transmitter of claim 1 including: a first switch selectively coupling the input of the integrator to the sensor output; a second switch selectively coupling the output of the integrator to the compensation circuit; a third switch selectively coupling the cancellation circuit to the input of the integrator; and wherein during normal operation the first and second switches are closed and the third switch is open and during leakage current measurement the first and second switches are open and the third switch is closed.
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