Application information

OA1ZHA, OA2ZHA, OA4ZHA

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In the time domain, the offset part of the output signal before filtering is shown in Figure 40:

"Vio cancellation principle".

Figure 40: Vio cancellation principle

thanks to the chopper technique.

5.1.2

Frequency domain

The frequency domain gives a more accurate vision of chopper-stabilized amplifier

architecture.

Figure 41: Block diagram in the frequency domain

The modulation technique transposes the signal to a higher frequency where there is no 1/f

noise, and demodulate it back after amplification.

1.

is modulated once (Chop1) so all the input signal is transposed to the high frequency

domain.

2.

to this modulated signal.

3.

This signal is then demodulated (Chop2), but since the noise and the offset are

modulated only once, they are transposed to the high frequency, leaving the output

signal of the amplifier without any offset and low frequency noise. Consequently, the

input signal is amplified with a very low offset and 1/f noise.

4.

To get rid of the high frequency part of the output signal (which is useless) a low pass

filter is implemented.

To further suppress the remaining ripple down to a desired level, another low pass filter

may be added externally on the output of the OA1ZHA, OA2ZHA and OA4ZHA device.