Power supply interference rejection in commercial digital sensors with PWM output

Author

Reverter, Ferran ; Pallàs-Areny, Ramon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tech. Univ. of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

22-24 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

855

Abstract

The frequency dependence of the power supply interference rejection of four commercial digital sensors with PWM output has been experimentally analyzed because data sheets do not fully specify it, neither do they describe the measurement method in detail. In some sensors, the mean and standard deviation of the output depend on the amplitude and frequency of sine wave interference added to their supply voltage. Bias errors arise from locking effects when the interfering frequency is close to the output frequency or an integer multiple of it, and increase with the interference amplitude. For a 100 mV amplitude sine wave interference, the standard deviation can be from 3 to 100 times that obtained when the supply voltage is clean.

Keywords

electromagnetic interference; microsensors; pulse width modulation; 100 mV; PWM output; amplitude; bias errors; commercial digital sensors; data sheets; frequency; frequency dependence; interfering frequency; locking effects; mean; output frequency; power supply interference rejection; sine wave interference; standard deviation; supply voltage; Capacitors; Frequency; Interference; Power measurement; Power supplies; Pulse width modulation; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Signal processing; Space vector pulse width modulation; Threshold voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensors, 2003. Proceedings of IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8133-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279064

Filename

1279064