Constant Current Source Circuit Research Articles

A Low-cost Two-in-one Fluorescence/ Colorimetry Ammonium Detector: Design and Application

In this study, a compact and low-cost ammonium detector integrated spectrophotometric and fluorescence detection was designed based on the reaction of ammonium and o-phthalaldehyde in the presence of sodium sulfite solution to form substances with both photometric properties and fluorescence. This two-in-one detector detects ammonium in spectrophotometric mode at high concentrations and in fluorescence mode at low concentrations. The detector with a total size of 5×5×5 cm2 and integrates the detector skeleton box, light source, attenuator, filter, photoelectric sensor, data acquisition card, constant current source circuit, and LabVIEW upper computer acquisition program. Also, the detector was applied to the determination of water samples with a wide range of ammonium concentrations, showing good performance. The detector has the advantages of low cost, miniaturization, easy operation, and wide detection concentration range. This two-in-one detector has good potential for ammonium detection in the field, especially where ammonium concentration varies widely.

An intelligent integrated EDI module based on fuzzy PID

Electrodeionization (EDI) is a popular method of water treatment in the current field of water treatment. EDI module mainly absorbs the charged ions in water through the cation exchange resin and realizes the ion removal of water by applying an electric field to make the charged ions move in a directional way and pass through the cation exchange membrane with selective permeability. The existing EDI module has a low integration degree and the working current cannot be adjusted intelligently according to the field environment. In order to solve the problem of low integration degree, this paper designs an EDI module that integrates the EDI module, sensor, controllable constant current source module, and main controller. Meanwhile, in order to solve the problem that the current EDI working current cannot be adjusted in real-time with the environmental water quality, an EDI module output current control method based on fuzzy PID and a main controller hardware circuit based on the adjustable constant current source circuit of a microcontroller digital-to-analog converter (DAC) are designed to adjust the output current of EDI module intelligently. Then the control model of the control system is established by Matlab respectively using the PID control method and fuzzy PID control method, and the simulation is compared. In this paper, the hardware and software of the module are developed based on STM32. The experimental results show that the designed EDI module can realize accurate and fast control of water quality.

Development of high precision digital magnetometer

Aiming at the low measurement accuracy of magnetometer, a high stability constant current source circuit is developed to drive indium arsenide Hall sensor, designs a self stabilizing zero preamplifier to pick up the magnetic field signal, and uses a low-noise circuit structure to adaptively adjust the signal amplification to make the magnetic field signal reach the highest signal-to-noise ratio. After analog-to-digital conversion with high-linearity ADC, the least square method is used to correct the nonlinearity caused by the hall sensor, so as to improve the accuracy of the magnetometer in the whole range. Through verification and test, the accuracy of the magnetometer is better than 0.5% within the measuring range of 3T, which meets the requirements of high-precision magnetic field measurement in industrial production.

LED 디스플레이의 저전력화 동작 연구

LED의 사용이 증가됨에 따라, LED 디스플레이의 저전력 설계에 대한 요구가 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 신호로 제어하는 정전류원 회로에 단열회로 동작을 유도하는 전원소스 공급을 통하여, 저전력화가 가능한 LED 컨트롤러부를 설계하였다. 설계한 회로는 0.35um CMOS Process로 구현하였으며 회로의 선형 동작을 확인하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 기존의 LED 컨트롤러부에 대비하여 약 82% 소비전력 절감효과를 확인하였다. 본 연구는 LED 디스플레이 동작의 발열 대책 및 저전력화에 유용할 것으로 기대된다. According to increase in the use of the LED, the demand for low power consumption LED display design of the controller block has increased. In this paper, the low power LED controller block was designed through the power source supply that leads adiabatic operation from constant current source circuit operated by digital signal control. The proposed circuit was implemented using a 0.35um CMOS process. and it demonstrated linear operation of the circuit. From the simulation result, the proposed circuit was evaluated with about 82% power consumption reduction effect in comparison with conventional LED controller block. This research is expected to be helpful for the low power operation and the solution for heat problem of LED display.

An SLF magnetic antenna calibration system

Calibrating the super low frequency (SLF) magnetic antenna in magnetic free space or an outdoor environment is difficult and complicated due to the large size calibration instruments and lots of measurement times. Aiming to calibrate the SLF magnetic antenna simply and efficiently, a calibration system comprised of a multi-frequency source, an AC constant-current source and a solenoid is proposed according to the characteristic of an SLF magnetic antenna. The static magnetic transfer coefficient of the designed solenoid is calibrated. The measurement of the frequency response characteristics suggests the transfer coefficient remains unchanged in the range of the SLF band and is unaffected by the magnetic antenna internally installed. The CORDIC algorithm implemented in an FPGA is realized to generate a linear evenly-spaced multi-frequency signal with equal energy at each frequency. An AC constant weak current source circuit is designed in order to avoid the impact on the magnetic induction intensity of a calibration system affected by impedance variation when frequency changing, linearity and the precision of the source are measured. The frequency characteristic of a magnetic antenna calibrated by the proposed calibration system agrees with the theoretical result and the standard Glass ring calibration result. The calibration precision satisfies the experimental requirement.

The Design of the Parallel Switching Power Supply System

This study introduces a parallel switching power supply system which is controlled by C8051F020 MCU. The system consists of DC/DC converter, voltage-controlled constant current source circuit, over-current protection circuit and auxiliary power supply. TPS54331 is used to constitute a highly efficient DC/DC converter, reducing the input DC voltage to supply the voltage-controlled constant current source circuit. The parallel current-sharing of the system is realized by the voltage-controlled constant current source circuit. The output current of the two parallel power supply can be adjusted by changing the control voltage. When the output current exceeds the set value, the system starts over-current protection circuit to cut off the power and delays to restore power automatically after a certain period of time. The test results show that the system is stable and reliable, easy to control and has a function of over-current protection and automatic recovery.

Study on the Application of High Precision Strain Acquisition System Based on Twin-Constant-Current Source

Aiming at the shortcomings of the constant voltage source strain acquisition system, the paper put forward a new strain acquisition technology based on the double-side half-bridge measurement of the constant current source. It has demonstrated and analyzed the advantages of constant current source circuit using for strain collection, and has raised the design of multi-channel strain acquisition system. Lab test and running in a large fan blade deformation tests showed that the strain acquisition system had high measurement precision, stability, anti-interference and reliability.

A Fuzzy Temperature Control System for Pressure-Sensitive Paint Measurement

This template explains a design of a fuzzy temperature control system for the pressure-sensitive paint. According to the relationship between temperature difference and the current of semiconductor chip, the fuzzy system control theory, control the volume of the domain, control rules design, and design a constant current source circuit to control the current through the chip, and finally make experimental verification of the system. The system hardware uses C8051F040 MCU, temperature chip DS18B20, keyboard chip CH451.

A Micro-Resistance Measurement Based Design Approach of Digital Micro-Ohmmeter

This paper presents a novel design solution of digital micro-ohmmeter based on the micro-resistance measurements. Through the system analysis, two key factors which have impacts on the measurement accuracy are identified: constant-current source circuit and A/D converter. Therefore, we suggest a design approach to improve the common constant-current source circuit to obtain enhanced system linearity, stability, precision and robustness and use high resolution A/D converter to ensure converting accurately. The proposed design approach is assessed and demonstrates that the load disturbance can be limited to 0.05%, and the measurement precision could reach 0.2% ranging from 20mΩ to 20Ω and 1.0% below 20mΩ.

커프 압력 조절에 따른 혈류량 변화 평가를 위한 임피던스법의 구현

In this study, we measured the blood flow on arm by non-invasive method and implemented a system to measure variation of the blood flow by estimating bio-electrical impedance and arterial pressure according to cuff pressure. The implemented system measured impedance variation according to pressure variation applied by artificial cuff pressure on the measuring position. The system consisted of pressure measuring part and impedance measuring part using 4-electrode method. Pressure measuring part was composed of semiconductor pressure sensor and electronic circuit for signal processing of sensor output signal. In addition, impedance measuring part was composed of constant current source circuit and lock-in amplifier for detecting impedance signal. We conducted experiments of impedance measuring part using standard resistance for performance evaluation of the implemented system. In addition we experimented to estimate variation of the blood flow by measuring impedances of the experimental group. We estimated ratio of the blood flow resistance using mean arterial pressure and variation of the blood flow. As a result the ratio of the blood flow resistance and variation of blood flow were in an inverse relationship with each other and the correlation coefficient was -0.96776.