Common mode electronic noise in differential circuits

Differential circuits are assumed to reject common-mode noise yet no parameter is available to describethat rejection as the Common Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR) applies only to deterministic signals, not torandom noise. We propose a model and a method to analyze the contribution of the input common-m...

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Autores: Serrano Finetti, Roberto Ernesto|||0000-0002-5628-5426, Casas Piedrafita, Óscar|||0000-0002-0077-0561, Pallàs-Areny, Ramon|||0000-0002-0430-5309
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/174258
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/174258
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2019.04.028
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Amplifiers (Electronics)
Operational amplifiers
Electronic noise
Differential circuits
Instrumentation amplifiers
Cross-correlation
Noise model
Common-mode rejection ratio
Soroll Electronic
Amplificadors (Electrònica)
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica
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Sumario:Differential circuits are assumed to reject common-mode noise yet no parameter is available to describethat rejection as the Common Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR) applies only to deterministic signals, not torandom noise. We propose a model and a method to analyze the contribution of the input common-modeelectronic noise to the output voltage noise of differential circuits. The analysis shows that the sameparameter-matching conditions that improve the CMRR determine common-mode noise rejection butCMRR is more sensitive to mismatching. For example, a low-frequency CMRR as low as 8 dB implies thatmore than 82% of common-mode noise is rejected. Thus, often only differential-mode noise is relevant.However, if the equivalent input current noise sources predominate over equivalent input voltage noisesources, cross-correlation between them partially yields common-mode noise that will also be rejected.We also propose a simple test that yields an estimate of that correlation.