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182 5 Interface Electronic Circuits<br />

Fig. 5.27. Dual-slope A/D converter.<br />

Fig. 5.28. Integrator output in a dual-slope A/D converter.<br />

where V in is an average input signal during time T . At that moment, S 1 switches to<br />

the reference voltage which is <strong>of</strong> the opposite polarity with respect to the input signal,<br />

thus setting the deintegrate phase (a reference voltage integration), during which the<br />

integrator’s voltage ramps downward until it crosses a zero threshold. The integral <strong>of</strong><br />

the reference has slope<br />

a = – V ref<br />

. (5.32)<br />

R in C in<br />

During the deintegrate phase, the counter counts clock pulses. When the comparator<br />

indicates a zero crossing, the count is stopped and the analog integrator is reset by

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