Correction Circuit for Output Duty of Hall Element, Hall Sensor and Method of Correcting Output Duty of Hall Element

• US 20130249543A1
• Filed: 03/12/2013
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Lee, Soo Woong
• Application Number:
  US13/797,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20130249543A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/251
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/90 by the use, as active elements, of galvano-magnetic devices, e.g. Hall-effect devices H03K17/95, H03K17/97 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 5/1565 the output pulses having a constant duty cycle

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a correction circuit for output duty of a Hall element, a Hall sensor, and a method of correcting the output duty of the Hall element. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the correction circuit includes an amplification and output unit for amplifying an output of the Hall element and outputting a sqaure wave signal; a duty detection unit for detecting a duty ratio of the sqaure wave signal output by the amplification and output unit; and a duty correction unit for applying a feedback correction signal to the amplification and output unit accoring to the detected duty ratio.

Claims

1. A correction circuit for output duty of a Hall element, the correction circit comprising:

an amplification and output unit for amplifying an output of the Hall element and outputting a sqaure wave signal;

a duty detection unit for detecting a duty ratio of the sqaure wave signal output by the amplification and output unit; and

a duty correction unit for applying a feedback correction signal to the amplification and output unit accoring to the detected duty ratio.

2. The correction circit according to claim 1, wherein the duty detection unit calculates the duty ratio by counting high sections and low sections according to previously set clocks during one cycle of the square wave signal.

3. The correction circit according to claim 1, wherein the duty correction unit includes:

a state machine for generating a duty ratio correction bit according to the duty ratio detected by the duty detection unit; and

a hysteresis section control unit for feeding back and controlling a width of a hysteresis section for outputting the square wave signal, according to the duty ratio correction bit generated by the state machine.

4. The correction circit according to claim 2, wherein the duty correction unit includes:

a state machine for generating a duty ratio correction bit according to the duty ratio detected by the duty detection unit; and

a hysteresis section control unit for feeding back and controlling a width of a hysteresis section for outputting the square wave signal, according to the duty ratio correction bit generated by the state machine.

5. The correction circit according to claim 3, wherein the state machine generates a correction bit corresponding to a middle of a correctable bit range according to a size comparison of a high section and a low section of the detected duty ratio.

6. The correction circit according to claim 3, wherein the state machine generates the correction bit in a step-down or step-up manner within a correctable bit range according to the detected duty ratio.

7. The correction circit according to claim 3, wherein the state machine calculates a correction bit corresponding to a ratio of a high section and a low section of the detected duty ratio from a previously stored table.

8. A Hall sensor comprising:

a Hall element for outputting a voltag signal according to an approaching magnetic field signal;

an amplification unit for analog-amplifying an output of the Hall element;

a Shumitt trigger circuit for generating a sqaure wave signal from an output of the amplification unit according to a hysteresis section;

a duty detection unit for detecting a duty ratio of the sqaure wave signal output by the Shumitt trigger circuit; and

a duty correction unit for applying a feedback correction signal to the Shumitt trigger circuit accoring to the detected duty ratio.

9. The Hall sensor according to claim 8, wherein the duty correction unit includes:

a state machine for generating a duty ratio correction bit according to the duty ratio detected by the duty detection unit; and

a hysteresis section control unit for feeding back and controlling a width of the hysteresis section according to the duty ratio correction bit generated by the state machine.

10. The Hall sensor according to claim 9, wherein the state machine generates a correction bit corresponding to a middle of a correctable bit range according to a size comparison of a high section and a low section of the detected duty ratio.

11. The Hall sensor according to claim 9, wherein the state machine generates the correction bit in a step-down or step-up manner within a correctable bit range according to the detected duty ratio.

12. The Hall sensor according to claim 9, wherein the state machine calculates a correction bit corresponding to a ratio of a high section and a low section of the detected duty ratio from a previously stored table.

13. A method of correcting output duty of a Hall element, the method comprising:

an amplification and output operation of amplifying an output of the Hall element and outputting a sqaure wave signal;

a duty detection oepration of detecting a duty ratio of the sqaure wave signal output in the amplification and output operation; and

a duty correction operation of applying a duty ratio correction signal to the amplification and output operation accoring to the detected duty ratio.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the duty correction operation includes:

a correction bit generation operation of generating a duty ratio correction bit according to the duty ratio detected in the duty detection operation; and

a feedback correction operation of applying a feedback signal for controlling a width of a hysteresis section, according to the generated duty ratio correction bit, to the amplification and output operation.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the correction bit generation operation generates a correction bit corresponding to a middle of a correctable bit range according to a size comparison of a high section and a low section of the detected duty ratio.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the correction bit generation operation generates the correction bit in a step-down or step-up manner within a correctable bit range according to the detected duty ratio.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein the correction bit generation operation calculates a correction bit corresponding to a ratio of a high section and a low section of the detected duty ratio from a previously stored table.

18. The method according to claim 13, wherein the duty detection operation calculates the duty ratio by counting high sections and low sections according to previously set clocks during one cycle of the square wave signal.

19. The method according to claim 14, wherein the duty detection operation calculates the duty ratio by counting high sections and low sections according to previously set clocks during one cycle of the square wave signal.

20. The method according to claim 13, wherein the amplification and output operation includes:

an amplification operation of analog-amplifying the output of the Hall element; and

a sqaure wave signal output operation of generating a sqaure wave signal from an output of the amplification operation according to the hysteresis section.