- Determine the transfer equation given the input
current range and the fixed gain of the isolation amplifier.
- Determine the maximum shunt resistor
value.
- Determine the minimum shunt resistor power
dissipation.
- To interface with a 3.3V ADC, the AMC3301 and
TLV9002 can both operate at 3.3-V supply voltages so a single-supply can be
used.
- Channel 1 of the TLV9002 is used to set the
1.65-V common-mode voltage of the single-ended output of channel 2. With a 3.3-V
supply, a simple resistor divider can be used to divide 3.3 V down to 1.65 V.
Using 1 kΩ for R2, R1 can be calculated using the following
equation.
- The TLV9002 is a rail to rail operational
amplifier. However, the output of the TLV9002 can swing a maximum of 55 mV from
its supply rails. To meet this requirement, the single-ended output of the
TLV9002 should swing from 55 mV to 3.245 V (3.19 Vpk-pk) .
- The VOUTP and VOUTN outputs
of the AMC3301 are 2.05 Vpk-pk, 180 degrees out of phase, and have a common-mode
voltage of 1.44V. Therefore, the differential output is ±2.05 V or 4.1 Vpk-pk.
In order to stay within the
output limitations of the TLV9002, the output of the AMC3301 needs to be
attenuated by a factor of 3.19/4.1. When R3 = R4 and
R5 = R6, the following transfer function for the
differential to single-ended stage can be used to calculate R5
and R6.
- Using our previously calculated output swing of
the TLV9002 and choosing R3 and R4 to be 10kΩ,
R5 and R6 can be calculated to be 7.78kΩ using the
equation below.
Using standard 0.1% resistor values, a 7.77 kΩ can be used. This will
provide a maximum output swing within the limitations of the
TLV9002.
- Capacitors C1 and C2 are placed in parallel to
resistors R5 and R6 to limit high frequency content. When R5 =
R6 and C1 = C2 , the cutoff frequency can
be calculated using the following equation.
When the C1 = C2 = 1 nF and R5 = R6 = 7780 Ω, the cutoff frequency can be
calculated to be 20.45 kHz.