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Abstract
A low frequency filter according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resistor connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, an amplifier, a current source for providing a bias current to the amplifier, a first capacitor connected between the output terminal and the output terminal of the amplifier, And a second capacitor connected between the output and the input of the amplifier.
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The present invention relates to a low-pass filter and a semiconductor device including the low-pass filter. More particularly, the present invention relates to a low-pass filter that occupies a narrow area and does not deteriorate filtering performance over a wide range of input voltages, and a semiconductor device including the low-pass filter.
The vehicle is equipped with a number of sensors, which receive signals in the low-frequency range of tens to tens of thousands of hertz.
The low frequency filter included in the input of the device receiving signals from these sensors can use a large capacity capacitor to reduce the bandwidth.
1 is a circuit diagram of a general low-pass filter.
The low-pass filter of FIG. 1 low-pass filters the input voltage Vi to produce an output voltage Vo.
As shown in FIG. 1, a conventional low-pass filter composed only of a resistor R and a capacitor C, which are passive elements, must have a large resistor R and a large capacitor C in order to reduce the bandwidth.
However, when the resistance R is increased, noise due to the temperature increases, and when the capacitance of the capacitor C is increased, the area of the circuit increases.
A capacitance multiplier may be used to solve the problem of increasing the capacitance of the capacitor C.
The capacity multiplier has the effect of increasing the size of the substantial capacity by the amplification ratio, and the capacity of the capacitor to be used can be made small.
2 and 3 are circuit diagrams of a conventional low frequency filter using a capacitance multiplier.
2, the effective capacitance is given by a value obtained by multiplying the capacitance of the capacitor C by the current gain of the transistor Q.
That is, the capacitance of the actual capacitor C can be reduced in proportion to the current gain.
However, when the transistor Q is turned on, a voltage drop occurs as much as the threshold voltage, so that the input voltage Vi can not be provided as the output voltage Vo.
3 is a circuit diagram of a low-frequency filter including a capacitance multiplier circuit using an operational amplifier A. In Fig.
In Fig. 3, the effective capacitance corresponds to the value obtained by multiplying the capacitor C by the resistance ratio R1 / R2.
However, in the circuit shown in FIG. 3, the input / output of the operational amplifier A is limited not only to the range of the power supply voltage but also requires a minimum voltage margin for operation of the component. Therefore, when the input voltage Vi swings in a wide range from several volts to several tens of volts, it is very difficult to operate normally when the input voltage Vi swings.
Even if the operation is performed with a minimum voltage margin, the structure of the input / output stage circuit becomes complicated, thereby causing an increase in circuit area and an increase in power.
And a semiconductor device for receiving signals from a plurality of sensors in a complex system such as an automobile. When such a semiconductor device uses a low-frequency filter for each channel, the area of the low-frequency filter greatly affects the area of the semiconductor device.
Accordingly, there is a demand for a low-frequency filter that occupies a small area and does not deteriorate the filtering performance over a wide range of input voltages, and a semiconductor device including the low-frequency filter.
The present invention provides a low-frequency filter having a reduced area and a filtering performance against a wide range of input voltages, and a semiconductor device including the low-frequency filter.
A low frequency filter according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resistor connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, an amplifier, a current source for providing a bias current to the amplifier, a first capacitor connected between the output terminal and the output terminal of the amplifier, And a second capacitor connected between the output and the input of the amplifier.
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of low frequency filters for receiving a plurality of signals, a channel multiplexer for selecting one of the outputs of the plurality of low frequency filters according to an internal channel activation signal, And a channel controller for outputting an internal channel activation signal according to a channel activation signal, wherein the plurality of low-pass filters include a resistor connected between the input and the output, a current source for providing a bias current to the amplifier, an output terminal between the output terminal and the output terminal A first capacitor connected to the first capacitor; And a second capacitor connected between the output and the input of the amplifier.
The present invention can provide a low-frequency filter that does not deteriorate the low-frequency filtering performance over a wide range of input voltages without occupying a large area, and a semiconductor device including the low-frequency filter.
1 to 3 are circuit diagrams of a conventional low-frequency filter.
4 is a circuit diagram of a low-pass filter according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a block diagram of a semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
6 is a circuit diagram of the low-pass filter of Fig.
Figure 7 is a block diagram of the channel controller of Figure 5;
8 is a logic circuit diagram of the first unit of Fig.
9 is a logic circuit diagram of the second unit of Fig.
10 is a waveform diagram showing the operation of the channel controller of FIG. 5;
11 is a graph showing the effect of the present invention.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
4 is a circuit diagram of a low-frequency filter according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Basically, the low-frequency filtering operation is performed by the resistors R1 and R2, the capacitor C1, the PMOS transistor MP1 and the NMOS transistor NM1.
The PMOS transistor MP1 and the NMOS transistor NM1 function as amplifiers to multiply the capacitance of the capacitor C1.
At this time, the input terminal of the amplifier is the gate of the PMOS transistor MP1, and the output terminal of the amplifier is the common drain of the PMOS transistor MP1 and the NMOS transistor MN1.
Therefore, it can be understood that the capacitor C1 is connected between the output terminal of the low-pass filter and the output terminal of the amplifier, and the capacitor C2 is connected between the output terminal of the low-pass filter and the input terminal of the amplifier.
The PMOS transistor MP2 and the NMOS transistors MN1 and MN2 operate as a current source and provide a bias current to the PMOS transistor MP1 according to the bias voltage VB.
The resistors R1 and R2 operate as a voltage divider to relatively reduce the voltage input to the amplifier compared to the input voltage Vi. Accordingly, the range of the input voltage Vi can be extended more than the power supply voltage of the amplifier.
The voltage division ratio can be changed to a suitable range in consideration of the power supply voltage (VDD) and the breakdown voltage characteristics of the transistors.
Therefore, when the voltage drop of the input voltage Vi is not required, the resistor R2 may not exist.
If the transconductance gain of the PMOS transistor MP1 is g mp1 , the output resistance of the PMOS transistor MP1 is r o , mp 1 and the exit resistance of the
In this case, the bandwidth (f 3dB ) of the low-pass filter can be expressed by the following equation (2).
The switch SW provides the gate voltage of the PMOS transistor MP2 as the gate voltage of the PMOS transistor MP1 in accordance with the precharge signal PC.
The precharge signal PC may be activated when the input voltage Vi is not provided and deactivated when the input voltage Vi is provided.
The capacitor C2 replicates and stores the gate voltage of the PMOS transistor MP2 according to the precharge signal PC.
The capacitor C2 functions to decouple the DC component of the input voltage Vi so that the DC component of the input voltage Vi is not directly applied to the gate of the PMOS transistor MP1.
Accordingly, even if the DC level of the input voltage Vi is changed, the PMOS transistor MP1 can operate in the saturation region.
That is, even if the DC level of the input voltage Vi is changed, the bias point variation of the amplifier constituted by the PMOS transistor MP1 and the NMOS transistor MN1 is suppressed. Accordingly, the input voltage Vi) is applied, the function of the low-pass filter can be fully performed in a constant bandwidth.
2, the base voltage of the transistor Q is directly affected by the DC level of the input voltage Vi. Therefore, unlike the present invention, the low-frequency filtering performance A large difference may occur.
The charge charged in the capacitor C2 during the pre-charge operation may leak due to various factors.
When the charge charged in the capacitor C2 is leaked, the bias change of the amplifier is inevitable. Therefore, it is preferable to perform the pre-charge operation again before the charge charged in the capacitor C2 is leaked.
The precharge signal PC is inactivated while the input voltage Vi is provided. This means that the gate voltage of the PMOS transistor MP1 is no longer fixed.
Accordingly, the high frequency noise component included in the input voltage Vi is transferred to the gate of the PMOS transistor MP1 through the capacitor C2.
This means that the high-frequency noise component contained in the input voltage Vi can be applied to the low-pass filter together and removed.
As described above, the low-frequency filter according to the present invention can suppress an increase in the area due to an increase in the capacity of the capacitor by using the capacity multiplier, and suppress the fluctuation of the bandwidth even if the DC level of the input voltage Vi is changed to perform the low- .
5 is a block diagram of a semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of low frequency filters 100, a
In this embodiment, the low-
In the present embodiment, each of the low-
A specific configuration of the low-
The
The input terminal of each switch SW is connected to the output terminal of the corresponding
The
A plurality of switches SW are controlled by an internal channel activation signal CENI.
The internal channel activation signal CENI is turned on when the signal IN is input from the corresponding channel, and is turned off if not.
The
The channel activation signal (CEN) provides the information of the currently used channel.
The
For channels that are not currently in use, the internal channel enable signal (CENI) remains inactive.
The internal channel activation signal CENI can be controlled so that the low frequency filter CENI operates as in the conventional filter shown in FIG. 1 for a channel that is input to the
In this embodiment, the
Fig. 6 is a circuit diagram of the low-
The circuit of Fig. 6 is substantially the same as the circuit of Fig.
The low-
When at least one of the filter activation signal FEN and the internal channel activation signal CENI is low, the NMOS transistor MN3 is turned on under the control of the NAND gate ND1 and the NMOS transistor MN4 is turned on under the control of the inverter INV1. And MN5 are turned off.
In this case, the circuit of Fig. 6 becomes substantially the same as the circuit of Fig. Accordingly, when the signal is not input even though the channel is unused or the channel is in use, the power consumed by the filter can be minimized.
When the filter activation signal FEN and the internal channel activation signal CENI are both high, the NMOS transistor MN3 is turned on and the NMOS transistors MN4 and MN5 are turned off.
In this case, the circuit of Fig. 6 becomes substantially the same as the circuit of the low-pass filter of Fig.
Figure 7 is a block diagram of the channel controller of Figure 5;
The
The
The
The power supply voltage VDD is applied to the second input EN of the
The
The precharge signal PC is activated before sequentially activating the internal channel activation signal for the currently used channel to precharge the capacitor C2 included in the
The channel activation signal (CEN) indicates the channels currently in use. Accordingly, the internal channel activation signal CENI can be output so as to sequentially skip channels that are not currently in use and select only the channels in use.
The chip select signal CS and the reset signal RST are signals for determining the active condition of the
In this embodiment, the pre-charge signal PC is activated again after selecting the channels in use once, but in another embodiment, the pre-charge signal PC is activated after selecting the channels in use more than two times Precharging operation, which can be selected according to the degree of charge leakage of the capacitor C2.
Fig. 8 is a logic circuit diagram of the
The configurations of the two circuits are substantially the same, but the operation differs in the following points.
Although the
The D flip-flop DFF of the
Accordingly, the precharge signal PC, which is the output of the
The
The value of the second input EN of the
When the channel enable signal CEN is low, the output of the D flip-flop DFF, i.e., the second output Q, maintains a low level and the value of the first output FO is equal to the value of the first input FI same. That is, when the channel activation signal CEN is low, the second unit DFF transfers the output FO of the previous stage as it is to the next stage.
When the channel enable signal CEN is high, the values of the first output terminal FO and the second output terminal Q are the values of the first input terminal FI latched by the previous clock by the D flip-flop DFF, And has the same value as the output value FO.
10 is a waveform diagram illustrating the operation of the channel controller of FIG.
The waveform diagram of FIG. 10 assumes that channel activation signal CEN <2> of
As shown in the figure, the precharge signal PC is activated and deactivated at the beginning of the operation, and the internal channel activation signal CENI is skipped over the
After the Nth channel is activated, the precharge signal PC is activated and the same operation is repeated.
The above embodiment assumes that the precharge signal PC is reactivated every time each channel is activated once to perform a precharge operation.
The period of the precharge operation can be set differently according to the degree of leakage of charge in the capacitor C2 of the
For example, an embodiment in which the precharge operation is performed after each channel is activated twice or a different number of times is also possible.
11 is a graph showing the effect of the present invention.
(a) is a graph showing the operation of the conventional low-frequency filter shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 4 (b) is a graph showing the operation when the capacitor C2 is not present and the switch SW is always turned on (C) is a graph showing a case where the capacitor C2 is present as shown in FIG. 4 and the switch SW is turned on only during the pre-charge operation.
(a) shows that although the bandwidth is constant according to the DC level of the input voltage (Vi), there is a problem that a capacitor having a large area is used in order to narrow the bandwidth, and a problem that the bandwidth can not be narrowed sufficiently when capacitors having the same capacity are used Lt; / RTI >
(b) shows that the bandwidth is not constant but varies according to the DC level of the input voltage Vi. The graph indicates that low frequency filtering can not be performed at the desired bandwidth when the DC level is between 0 and 11V.
(c) shows that the low-frequency filtering is performed to a desired level even if the bandwidth is constant according to the DC level of the input voltage Vi and the DC level is 0 to 11 V. FIG.
The embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the drawings. The foregoing disclosure is intended to be illustrative of the invention and not to limit the scope of the invention by the foregoing disclosure. The scope of the present invention is defined by the claims and their equivalents.
100: Low frequency filter (LPF)
200: bias voltage generator
300: channel multiplexer
400: channel controller
410: first unit
420: second unit
430, 440: AND gate
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amplifier;
A current source for providing a bias current to the amplifier;
A first capacitor connected between the output terminal and the output terminal of the amplifier; And
And a second capacitor connected between the output terminal and the input terminal of the amplifier,
, ≪ / RTI &
Wherein the second capacitor is precharged while a signal is not input to the input terminal to fix an initial voltage at an input terminal of the amplifier.
A channel multiplexer for selecting one of the outputs of the plurality of low frequency filters according to an internal channel activation signal and outputting the selected one to the outside; And
A channel controller for outputting the internal channel activation signal according to a channel activation signal,
Wherein the plurality of low-frequency filters comprise
A resistor connected between the input and output
amplifier;
A current source for providing a bias current to the amplifier;
A first capacitor connected between the output terminal and the output terminal of the amplifier; And
And a second capacitor connected between the output terminal and the input terminal of the amplifier,
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