& Digital Calibration of Analog Circuits and Systems
3.2 Analysis
Figure 2 presents an analysis of this chopper amplifier in the time domain,
whereas figure 3 displays the frequency analysis.
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Va Ve Vout
Figure 2, Temporal analysis of a chopper amplifier
mit) Veftset + Vnoise
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Wa Ve be
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Figure 3. Frequency analysis of a chopper amplifier
In this functional system, the modulation signal m(t) is a square wave with
a period T that is applied to both the modulator and demodulator. V;,, is a
band limited signal with frequency components up to at maximum 1/T. If this
is not the case, the higher frequencies are aliased in the baseband, which is
undesirable.
The modulation changes the sign of the amplifier input periodically, which
corresponds in the frequency domain to a shift of the spectrum to the odd har-