Incremental-Charge-Based Operation

  • Pedro Emiliano Paro Filho
  • Jan Craninckx
  • Piet Wambacq
  • Mark Ingels
Chapter
Part of the Analog Circuits and Signal Processing book series (ACSP)

Abstract

To ease the understanding of the underlying concept of charge-based operation, let’s take a mechanical system as an example. Imagine a watermill, which has to be controlled in a precise and timely manner following a wanted input command (Fig. 2.1).

Keywords

Quantization Noise Power Efficiency Intrinsic Noise Output Load Capacitive Load 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Pedro Emiliano Paro Filho
    • 1
  • Jan Craninckx
    • 1
  • Piet Wambacq
    • 1
  • Mark Ingels
    • 1
  1. 1.SSET departmentIMEC SSET departmentLeuvenBelgium

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