Switched capacitor filter
View Patent ↗Embodiments of the present invention relate to a switched-capacitor filter which comprises a first stage which itself comprises a first switched capacitor, a second stage which itself comprises a second switched capacitor, a switched capacitive element that couples the output of the first stage to the input of the second stage, and a non-switched capacitive element coupled from the output of the second stage to the input of the first stage to provide damping of the switched-capacitor filter. Both stages are implemented as inverting analog amplifiers and the filter is especially well suited to semiconductor manufacture. The switched capacitor filter is implemented as part of a user module in a programmable system on a chip, or PSoC.
1. A switched-capacitor filter, comprising:
a first integrator having an input selectively couplable to an input of said switched-capacitor filter;
an auto-zeroing element for selectively connecting an output of said first integrator to an input of said first integrator during an auto-zero state;
a second integrator having an output coupled to an output of said switched-capacitor filter;
a switched capacitive element coupled between said output of said first integrator and an input of said second integrator;
a non-switched capacitive element coupled between said output of said second integrator and said input of said first integrator to provide damping of said switched-capacitor filter; and
a low-glitch circuit selectively couplable to said input of said second integrator.
2. The switched-capacitor filter described in claim 1 , wherein said first integrator comprises a first inverting analog amplifier.
3. The switched-capacitor filter described in claim 2 , wherein said second integrator comprises a second inverting analog amplifier.
4. The switched-capacitor filter described in claim 2 wherein a gain of said first inverting analog amplifier is corrected by said auto zeroing element.
5. The switched-capacitor filter described in claim 1 , wherein said low-glitch circuit comprises:
an inverting analog amplifier; and
a switched capacitor coupled to the input of said inverting analog amplifier.
6. The switched-capacitor filter described in claim 5 wherein said low-glitch circuit further comprises a second auto-zeroing element for selectively connecting an output of said inverting analog amplifier to an input of said inverting analog amplifier during an auto-zero state.
7. The switched-capacitor filter described in claim 2 , wherein an offset of said first inverting analog amplifier is corrected by said auto zeroing element.