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A Study on Performance Improvement of Detecting Current of the Norton Amplifier

노튼 증폭기의 전류검출성능 개선에 관한 연구

  • 권성렬 (국립 부경대학교 전기공학과) ;
  • 이현창 (국립 공주대학교 정보통신공학부) ;
  • 이규대 (국립 공주대학교 정보통신공학부)
  • Received : 2018.05.23
  • Accepted : 2018.06.08
  • Published : 2018.06.30
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Abstract

In this paper, an improved Norton amplifier is proposed and the problems caused by the current input in the Norton amplifier, which has advantages in current transmission, are analyzed. The output of the voltage follower consisting of an operational-amplifier with constant output voltage characteristics is used as an input terminal of the proposed circuit. It is configured to detect the power supply current passing through the voltage follower and extract the current from the input terminal. The performance of the improved Norton amplifier is verified at experiment according to the input current. The results are compared with conventional Norton amplifier. Consequently, the input offset voltage, which is a problem in the conventional Norton amplifier, was removed in the proposed circuit. In addition, the average error of the output voltage with respect to the input current was reduced to 4.755%. It is verified that the characteristics of the proposed circuit are improved.

본 논문에서는 센서 신호를 전류형태로 수신할 때 유리한 노튼 증폭기에서 전류 입력 시 발생하는 문제점을 분석하고 이를 개선하기 위한 회로를 제시하였다. 출력전압이 일정하게 유지되는 특성을 지닌 연산 증폭기로 구성된 버퍼회로의 출력을 전류의 입력단으로 활용하고, 이 때 버퍼회로에 흐르는 전원전류를 감지해 전류 입력단에서 유입되는 전류를 추출하도록 구성하였다. 제시한 회로의 성능을 확인하기 위해 회로를 구성하고 실험용 전류를 입력했을 때 나타나는 결과를 확인하였으며, 동일한 조건을 노튼 증폭기에 적용했을 때의 결과와 비교하였다. 비교 결과 기존의 노튼 증폭기에서 문제가 되었던 입력 오프셋 전압이 제시한 회로에서는 0V로서 제거되었고, 입력전류에 대한 출력전압의 평균오차는 무려 4.755%로 크게 줄어드는 등 전체적인 특성이 크게 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

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