A circuital system that includes a differential low-pass filter having a differential output and operable in a first voltage domain. Some embodiments include a differential integrator including a differential input and a differential output, and operable in a second voltage domain different from the first voltage domain. Some embodiments include a pair of AC coupling capacitors coupling the differential output of the differential low-pass filter to the differential input of the differential integrator.

An amplification apparatus includes an amplifier having an inverting terminal, and a non-inverting terminal connected to a reset voltage node, a first capacitor connected to the inverting terminal, an input voltage being applied to the first capacitor, a second capacitor connected to the inverting terminal and an output terminal of the amplifier, and a duty-cycled resistor, connected in parallel to the second capacitor, including a first resistor. The duty-cycled resistor is configured to connect the first resistor and the inverting terminal and to disconnect the first resistor and the reset voltage node during a first time interval included in a period to complete an on-and-off cycle of the duty-cycled resistor, and disconnect the first resistor and the inverting terminal and to connect the first resistor and the reset voltage node during a second time interval included in the period.

An embodiment of this disclosure provides an automated payment apparatus. The apparatus includes a photodiode current integrator configured to charge an integration capacitor. The photodiode current integrator includes a first feedback resistor connected along a negative feedback path of an operational amplifier between an output of the operational amplifier and a negative input of the operational amplifier. The photodiode current integrator also includes a second feedback resistor connected along a positive feedback path of the operational amplifier between the output of the operational amplifier and a positive input of the operational amplifier. The photodiode current integrator also includes an integration capacitor connected to the positive input of the operational amplifier and to common circuit ground. The photodiode current integrator also includes a reset switch connected to the positive input of the operational amplifier and to common circuit ground or to additional voltage source. The photodiode current integrator also includes a photodiode connected to the positive input and the negative input of the operational amplifier.

An operational amplifier includes a single-stage amplifier and a current controller. The single-stage amplifier receives an input signal, and amplifies the input signal to generate an output signal, wherein the single-stage amplifier includes a voltage controlled current source circuit that operates in response to a bias voltage input. The current controller receives the input signal, and generates the bias voltage input according to the input signal. The bias voltage input includes a first bias voltage, a second bias voltage, a third bias voltage, and a fourth bias voltage. None of the first bias voltage, the second bias voltage, the third bias voltage, and the fourth bias voltage is directly set by the input signal of the single-stage amplifier.

An apparatus includes a differential current-to-voltage conversion circuit that includes an input sampling stage circuit, a differential integration and DC signal cancellation stage circuit, and an amplification and accumulator stage circuit. An input common mode voltage of the differential current-to-voltage circuit is independent of an output common mode voltage of the differential current-to-voltage circuit.

A photosensitive device includes a peripheral circuit semiconductor region, a photosensitive circuit semiconductor region including at least one group of at least two photosensitive elements configured to generate a photoelectric signal on a node called critical node. The device further includes an integrator circuit per group of photosensitive elements, each including: a differential circuit for each photosensitive element of the group, in the photosensitive circuit semiconductor region, an amplification circuit, in the peripheral circuit semiconductor region, and a feedback circuit for each photosensitive element of the group, comprising a capacitive element located in the photosensitive circuit semiconductor region coupled between the output node of the amplification circuit and the respective critical node.

An apparatus for reducing a temperature influence in measuring a switching current based on stray inductance. The apparatus includes a current detector configured to output a voltage derived from a differential component of a current so as to detect a switching current of a power module, a filter configured to filter the voltage output from the current detector, an integrator configured to integrate a voltage output from the filter, an ADC configured to convert an analog voltage output from the integrator into a digital voltage and sample the digital voltage, a scaler configured to convert a sampled integrator output value output from the ADC into a scaled current value, and a compensator configured to remove a temperature dependent DCR effect from the scaled current value.

A negative feedback system architecture and a loop filter thereof are provided. The negative feedback system architecture includes a loop filter, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a driver. The loop filter includes a three-stage series integrator for receiving a signal and outputting the filtered signal. The loop filter has three in-bandwidth poles and at least two in-bandwidth zeros. The pulse width modulation circuit is electrically connected to the loop filter for receiving the filtered signal and modulating it into a pulse width modulation signal to output. The driver is electrically connected to the pulse width modulation circuit and the loop filter for receiving the pulse width modulation signal to generate an output signal to drive a load device, and the output signal is fed back to the loop filter.

An amplifier of a contactless electrometer, having feedback comprising an inverting integrator which is connected to the booster output, two series-connected p-n junctions connected by a common point thereof to the booster input, and a circuit for biasing the two series-connected p-n junctions in the reverse direction, wherein the mid point of the biasing circuit is connected to the output of the inverting integrator.

A driver circuit arrangement for driving a load and a differential drive arrangement thereof are provided. The driver circuit arrangement employs a dual feedback configuration with a feedback resistor and a current sensor feedback arrangement. The current sensor feedback arrangement provides a current feedback path from the amplifier output to the amplifier input, and has a current sensor resistor connected in an output current path of the driver circuit arrangement. A current feedback amplifier is present connected to the current sensor resistor and to the amplifier input.