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3232 IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, VOL. 44, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2009 A Chopper Current-Feedback Instrumentation Amplifier With a 1 mHz  Noise Corner and an AC-Coupled Ripple Reduction Loop Rong Wu, Student Member, IEEE, Kofi A. A. Makinwa, Senior Member, IEEE, and Johan H. Huijsing, Fellow, IEEE Abstract— This paper presents a chopper instrumentation corners around 3 Hz [1]. By using dynamic offset cancellation amplifier for interfacing precision thermistor bridges. For high techniques such as chopping and auto-zeroing, similar per- CMRR and DC gain, the amplifier employs a three-stage cur- formance can be achieved in CMOS technology, despite the rent-feedback topology with nested-Miller compensation. By chopping both the input and intermediate stages of the amplifier, fact that MOS transistors exhibit more noise than bipolar a 1 mHz noise corner was achieved at an input-referred noise transistors. Using these techniques, CMOS amplifiers with power spectral density (PSD) of 15 nV/ Hz. To reduce chopper noise corners of a few Hz [2], [3] and even a few tens of mHz ripple, the amplifier employs a continuous-time AC-coupled ripple [4] have been reported. To the authors’ knowledge, however, reduction loop. Due to its continuous-time nature, the loop causes no CMOS amplifiers with noise corners in the order of a no noise folding to DC and hence offers improved noise perfor- mance over auto-zeroed amplifiers. The loop reduces chopper few mHz have been reported. ripple by more than 60 dB, to levels below the amplifier’s own Although noise can be reduced by chopping and input-referred noise. Furthermore,