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This chapter gives an overview of techniques that achieve low offset, low noise, and high accuracy in CMOS operational amplifiers (OA or OpAmp) and instrumentation amplifiers (IA or InstAmp). Auto-zero and chopper techniques are used apart and in combination with each other. Frequency-compensation techniques are described that obtain straight roll-off amplitude characteristics in the multi-path architectures of chopper-stabilized amplifiers. Therefore, these amplifiers can be used in standard feedback networks. Offset voltages lower than 1 μV can be achieved. Instrumentation amplifiers with capacitive coupled chopper inputs are described. They facilitate CM input voltage ranges outside the supply voltages for applications of beyond the rail current sensing.
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Huijsing, J. (2017). Low-Noise and Low-Offset Operational and Instrumentation Amplifiers. In: Operational Amplifiers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28127-8_10
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