A Fully Integrated Low-Power Hall-Based Isolation Amplifier With IMR Greater Than 120 dB

A CMOS Hall-based fully integrated isolation amplifier for differential voltage sensing is presented in this work. The design is fabricated in a 0.35 µm CMOS process in which the high voltage (HV) side of the amplifier contains a coil driver while the low voltage (LV) side includes a Hall-effect sensor, lownoise amplifier, programmable-gain amplifier, filter, and chopper switches. Another Hall sensor performs the digital isolation using the on-off keying (OOK) technique for clock recovery. The introduced prototype achieves above 120 dB of isolation mode rejection (IMR) at 60 Hz and operates at a continuous isolation working voltage of 0.6 kV. It has also a maximum nonlinearity of 0.64 %, an input-referred offset of 1 mV, a 40 dB full-scale signal-to-noise ratio over a 40 kHz bandwidth, and a spurious-free dynamic range of 64 dB. The silicon area for each of the two separate dices employed for the HV and LV side of the isolation amplifier is 1 mm² with a power consumption of 7.6 mW and 9.9 mW respectively. The achieved miniaturized size of the isolation components, as well as their significantly low-power consumption, ensure the suitability of the proposed isolation amplifier for multi-channel readout circuit applications.

Uncontrolled Keywords

• Isolation amplifier
• voltage sensing
• current sensing
• galvanic isolation
• sensor interface
• chopper amplifier
• digital isolator
• integrated spiral coil
• CMOS Hall sensor