Dear Dennis...
EN-Genius Network's Dennis Feucht answers your design
queries in his new Circuit Design Clinic!
September, 2006
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EN-Genius Network presents a new, interactive
analog design service to readers! Send us your design questions (with
relevant data; schematics in JPEG or GIF, please) for some free
engineering advice from EN-Genius Network's circuit
consultant, Dennis Feucht, on how you might solve a design problem or
improve circuit performance. Submissions may be edited for clarity or
brevity, and submitters and their email addresses will remain anonymous
(unless otherwise indicated). Please send your questions to Dennis here.
Demystifying Switched-Capacitor Circuits
by Dennis L. Feucht
This book covers yet another of those topics that combine digital and analog. Switched-capacitor circuits (SCCs) are a category of sampling circuit in which switches connect and disconnect capacitors, charging and discharging them. For instance, the circuit below demonstrates one of the main switched-C circuit techniques.
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