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    A method for linearization of the output of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is disclosed, said method comprising the steps of creating an analog ADC input signal (ADCis) by combining a substantially constant voltage (Vin) to be measured with an analog dithering signal (ds), feeding the analog ADC input signal to the ADC for converting it into a sequence of digital signal values, and using the sequence of digital signal values for calculating a single resulting digital value representing the voltage to be measured, wherein the analog dithering signal is arranged so that the analog ADC input signal fed to the ADC causes the output (Org) of the ADC to vary over at least 50 %, preferably over at least 70 %, most preferred over at least 80 %, of the full output range of the ADC. Furthermore, a temperature sensor (TS) using such method and a heat consumption meter (HCM) comprising such temperature sensors are disclosed.
    公开号:DK201270791A1
    申请号:DK201270791
    申请日:2012-12-18
    公开日:2014-06-19
    发明作者:Drachmann Jens；Thomsen Kasper Helstrup；Jensen Thomas Vejlgaard
    申请人:Miitors Aps；
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    专利说明:

    A METHOD FOR LINEARIZING THE OUTPUT OF ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND MEASURING INSTRUMENTS USING SUCH METHOD
    The present invention relates to a method for linearizing the output of an analog-to-digital converter, a temperature sensor using such method and a heat consumption meter comprising such temperature sensors.
    Background of the Invention
    It is well known in the art to use analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) to convert inputs in the form of a continuous physical quantity, such as an electric voltage, to a digital number that represents the amplitude of this quantity. Since the conversion involves quantization of the input, it introduces a small amount of error. Instead of doing a single conversion, an ADC often performs the conversions ("samples" the input) periodically. The result is a sequence of digital values that have converted a continuous-time and continuous-amplitude analog signal to a discrete-time and discrete-amplitude digital signal.
    The quantization error of the ADC depends on its resolution, i.e. on the number of discrete values it can produce over the range of analog values which, in turn, is decided by the number of bits used by the ADC to represent each digital value.
    In practice, however, the resolution of an ADC may be significantly improved using well-known methods, such as oversampling of the analog signal and dithering.
    Dither, as known in the art, is a very small amount of random noise (typically white noise), which is added to the input before conversion. Its effect is to cause the state of the least significant bit (LSB) of the ADC output to randomly oscillate between 0 and 1 in the presence of very low level s of input, rather than sticking at a fixed value.
    Rather than the signal simply getting cut off altogether at this low level (which is only being quantized to a 1 bit resolution), it extends the effective range of signals that the ADC can convert, at the expense of a slight increase in noise. Effectively, the quantization error is diffused across a series of noise values. The result is an accurate representation of the signal over time. A suitable filter at the output of the system can thus recover this small signal variation. Thus, the dithering produces results that are more accurate than the LSC of the ADC.
    All ADCs suffer from non-linearity errors caused by their physical imperfections, causing their output to deviate from a linear function. These errors are typically taken care of by calibration of the systems using the ADCs. It is important to note that a small amount of dither, as known in the art, can only increase the resolution of an ADC. It cannot improve the integral linearity of the ADC, and thus the absolute accuracy does not necessarily improve.
    Brief description of the invention
    It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for linearizing the output of an ADC so that the need for calibration of the system using the ADC is reduced or even eliminated.
    The present invention relates to a method for linearizing the output of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), said method comprising the steps of creating an analog ADC input signal by combining a substantially constant voltage to be measured with an analog dithering signal , feeding the analog ADC input signal to the ADC for converting it into a sequence of digital signal values, and using the sequence of digital signal values to calculate a single resulting digital value representing the voltage to be measured, when the analog dithering signal is arranged so that the analog ADC input signal fed to the ADC causes the output of the ADC to vary over at least 50%, preferably over at least 70%, most preferably over at least 80%, of the full output range of the ADC.
    It should be noted that by the expression "substantially constant voltage to be measured" it is understood that the voltage can be considered constant during the time it takes to perform a measurement and obtain a single resulting digital value representing the voltage to be measured, whereas the voltage may vary from one measurement to another.
    By letting the ADC input signal vary over most of the output range of the ADC, the non-linearity of the ADC is substantially eliminated. If measurements are performed over a narrow output range only, as is the case in ADC systems known in the art, the non-linearity error overlaying the resulting digital signal value depends on the position of the narrow range within the full output range of the ADC. . With the present invention using very broad output ranges, on the other hand, the non-linearity errors accumulated over most of the full output range are substantially the same for each measurement, resulting in an offset of the single resulting digital value, which does not depend on the voltage to be measured.
    In an embodiment of the inventory, the sequence of digital signal values for calculating a single resulting digital value comprises at least 100 values, preferably at least 500 values, most preferably at least 1000 values. A large number of digital signal values (or samples) is needed in order to be able to get the necessary information from the signal to obtain a significant improvement of the resolution due to the dithering, such as for instance a 16 bit resolution from a 12 bit ADC.
    In an embodiment of the invention, the analog dithering signal consists of at least half a period of a substantially sinusoidal signal.
    In an embodiment of the invention, the frequency of the substantially sinusoidal signal is between 50 Hz and 20 kHz, preferably between 200 Hz and 10 kHz, most preferably between 500 Hz and 4 kHz.
    The use of sinusoidal signals, especially with frequencies within the specified ranges, has shown a very high degree of linearity of the relationship between the voltages to be measured and the single resulting digital values representing these voltages.
    In an embodiment of the invention, the analog ADC input signal is created either by adding the analog dithering signal to the voltage to be measured or by subtracting the analog dithering signal from the voltage to be measured.
    The preferred method for creating the analog ADC input signal from the voltage to be measured and the analog dithering signal may depend on the type and characteristics of the amplifier circuit used for combining the two signals.
    In an embodiment of the invention, the calculation of the resulting digital value representing the voltage to be measured includes an averaging of the sequence of digital signal values from the ADC.
    If the analog dithering signal is arranged appropriately, the resulting digital value can be calculated by simply averaging the values in the sequence of digital signal values from the ADC.
    In an embodiment of the invention, the analog dithering signal is produced using a digital-to-analog converter (DAC).
    In an embodiment of the invention, the ADC and the DAC are both arranged within a single common electronic microcontroller circuit.
    Many modem microcontroller circuits not only comprise an ADC but also one or more DACs within the same circuit, which is ad vantageous for obtaining cost- and space-efficient solutions.
    In an embodiment of the invention, the microcontroller circuit further comprises a direct memory access module (DMA) arranged to feed data from an electronic memory to the DAC for creation of the analog dithering signal during measurement.
    In order to optimally utilize the capacity of the microcontroller, it is advantageous if some of the core functions of the microcontroller can be switched off during measurement. This can be achieved using a DMA module, which is able to feed data from an electronic memory to the DAC even when such core functions are switched off.
    In one aspect of the invention, it relates to a temperature sensor using the method described above for representing outputs from one or more temperature-dependent electronic components.
    In an embodiment of the invention, the temperature-dependent electronic components include at least one positive temperature coefficient (PTC) resistor and the output thereof is the voltage across the PTC resistor when a constant and well-defined current runs through the PTC resistor.
    Using PTC resistors, such as platinum elements, is advantageous because there is a very high degree of linearity between the temperature and the voltage across such a resistor with a given current running through the resistor.
    In an embodiment of the invention, the resistance of the PTC resistor representing the temperature is calculated from the resulting digital value by linear interpolation between two digital reference values, which reference values are found using the method described above for representing the voltage across two resistors, respectively, each of which has a well-defined resistance and using the same constant and well-defined current as used to measure the voltage across the PTC resistor.
    By finding reference values through measurement across two well-defined resistances just before or after each temperature measurement, it is obtained that no calibration of the temperature sensor is needed, and that the well-defined current only has to be constant during one cycle of finding reference values and the temperature measurement.
    It should be noted that, in order to avoid any contribution from the analog dithering signal when making the linear interpolation, it is important that the analog dithering si gnal is exactly the same for each of the three measurements performed during the same cycle when finding a digital output value of the ADC for the voltages across the two reference resistors and the positive temperature coefficient resistor, respectively.
    In one aspect of the invention, it relates to a heat consumption meter comprising one or more temperature sensors as described above and a flow meter, in which heat consumption meters the heat energy extracted from a flow of a fluid, such as district-heating water , is calculated from the flow of the fluid and the difference between the temperatures of the incoming fluid and the outgoing fluid, respectively.
    In an embodiment of the invention, the flow meter is an ultrasonic flow meter measuring the difference between the transit times of ultrasonic pulses propagating in and against the flow direction, respectively.
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    In the following, a few exemplary embodiments of the invention are described in more detail with reference to the figures, of which
    FIG. 1 schematically illustrates the non-linearity of an ADC and the consequences thereof when using systems known in the art,
    FIG. 2 schematically illustrates the missing consequences of such linearity for a system using a method according to an embodiment of the invention,
    FIG. 3 schematically illustrates the configuration of a temperature sensor according to an embodiment of the invention.
    FIG. 4 illustrates how the resistance of a temperature dependent resistor can be found by linear interpolation, and
    FIG. 5 schematically illustrates the configuration of a heat consumption meter according to an embodiment of the invention.
    Detailed description of the Invention
    FIG. 1 illustrates schematically the consequences of the non-linearity of an ADC.
    With the input on the horizontal input axis and the output on the vertical axis, a linear output curve Ol and a non-linear output curve Onl are shown. The figure illustrates how the non-linearity means that a first input voltage Vj results in an output Onli> which is different from the output On that would have been the output of a linear ADC. Similarly, a second input voltage VC results in arr output On , which is different from the output Ol . that would have been the output of a linear ADC.
    The relationships between the actual output values Onli, Qnl and the ideal output values Gu, Oj_, 2 are relatively simple, as the actual output values Onij, Onl are the sums of the ideal output values Oli, Ol and non-linearity error values 6nli, 6nl2:
    (1)
    (2)
    What should be noted is that the non-linearity error values e ^ n, Cnl . depend on the input voltages V], V2, Thus for input voltages in a close range around Vj, for instance due to dithering with a small amount of white noise for increasing the resolution as known in the art, the non-linearity error value 6νι .ι is relatively large and positive, whereas for input voltages in a close range around V2, the non-linearity error value Cm j is relatively small and negative. This means that calibration of the system is needed to take into account the different non-linearity error values 6νπ, eNL2 at different input voltages Vj, V2. if, on the other hand, as illustrated schematically in FIG. 2, a dithering signal of much larger amplitude than the variations of the input voltage Vm is added or subtracted from the input signal I to form an analog ADC input signal ADC; S such that the output range Org corresponds to the analog ADC inpu t signal ADQS covers most of the output range of the ADC, the non-linearity errors are accumulated over most of the full output range of the ADC resulting in substantially the same offset added to the output of the ADC for each measurement independent of the input voltage Vjn.
    FIG. 3 illustrates schematically the configuration of a temperature sensor TS according to an embodiment of the invention. A constant current generator Ig generates an electric current which, through a switching unit SU can be directed through either a first reference resistor Rls through a second reference resistor K2 or through a positive temperature coefficient resistor Rpic-
    The input voltage Vj ,, to be converted by the ADC is measured across the resistor R:, R2, Rpic through which this currents runs. Before the input voltage V, n is fed to the ADC, however, an analog dithering signal ds with a large amplitude compared to the variations in the input voltage Vin as described above is subtracted from the input voltage V; ,, whereby the analog ADC input signal ADQS is created.
    The analog dithering signal ds, which makes the output of the ADC substantially linear as described above, is created by a digital-to-analog converter DAC, the data for which is provided by a direct memory access module (DMA). The use of a DMA module allows for feeding data to the DAC 'even when core parts of a microcontroller gC of which the ADC, the DAC and the DMA module are all parts are put out of function. It is advantageous to put those core parts out of function when measuring using the ADC in order to utilize the capacity of the microcontroller tuC optimally. Preferably, the dithering signal ds consists of at least half a period of a sinusoidal signal.
    The output from the ADC is forwarded to a CPU, which is part of the same microcontroller gC as is the ADC, the DAC and the DMA module, for further processing and calculations. In preferred embodiments, however, a microcontroller gC with an ADC, which is capable of performing an averaging of a sequence of samples without involving the CPU, is used. In that case, the whole measuring process can be carried out without any active current consumption by the CPU.
    The relation between the resistance of the positive temperature coefficient resistor Rptc of the platinum element type and the temperature follows the "Callendar - Van Dusen" equation.
    The simpler form of this equation is generally valid only over the temperature range between 0 ° C and 661 ° C and is given as:
    (3)
    In equation (3), the constants A and B are derived from experimentally determined parameters using resistance measurements made at different temperatures.
    Solving this simple quadratic equation results in the following value of t:
    (4)
    Thus, if the actual resistance Optc ofRpic (corresponding to R in equation (4)) is known, the temperature can be calculated from this equation.
    Due to the offset added to the output of the ADC because of the use of the dithering signal ds as described above, the simple linear relationship between the current running from the constant current generator lg through the positive temperature coefficient resistor RPTC and the output from the ADC according to Ohm's Law is no longer valid.
    However, taking into account the substantial linearity of the ADC, the actual resistance OPTc of RpTC can be calculated by simple linear interpolation if the two reference resistors Rj and R2 are chosen to have resistances just outside the resistance range of the positive temperature coefficient t resistor RPtc corresponding to the relevant temperature range. Making three subsequent measurements with the three resistors R ! R2 and RPTC, respectively, using the same value of the current from the constant current generator Ig results in three output values Ori, Or and Optc, respectively, from the ADC, the laughter being between the two first ones as illustrated in Figs. 4th
    If ΩΚ], 0R2 and Optc denote the resistances of the three resistors 0R !, 0R2 and 0PTc, respectively, the resistance Optc of the positive temperature coefficient resistor RPtc can be found using the following equation:
    (5) and the temperature can be calculated using equation (4) by substituting Optc for the value R therein.
    In some embodiments, the temperature sensor TS comprises more than one positive temperature coefficient resistor RPTC and, optionally, more than one set of reference resistors Rj. R so that temperatures at different positions can be measured using the same microcontroller p, C.
    The configuration of a heat consumption meter HCM comprising one or more such temperature sensors TS is illustrated schematically in Fig. 5th
    The illustrated heat consumption meter HCM calculates the heat consumption of a heat exchanger HE in a domestic household connected to a district heating system from repeated measurements of the temperatures Τ; η and Tout of the incoming and outgoing district heating water, respectively, and of the flow of district heating water through the system. The two temperatures T; n, T0UE are preferably measured using a temperature sensor TS with two positive temperature coefficient resistors RPTc as described abo ve, whereas the flow of district heating water can be measured using an appropriate FM flow meter, such as an ultrasonic flow meters.
    The formulas used by the heat consumption meter HCM for calculating the heat consumption from a sequence of such measured temperature and flow values are well known in the art and are defined by recognized standards and recommendations relating to heat consumption meters, such as for instance the OIML R 75 recommendation issued by the OIM3L (International Organization of Legal Metrology).
    List of reference numbers ADC. Analog-to-digital converter ADC.S, Analog ADC input signal CPU. Central processing unit DAC. Digital-to-analog converter DMA. Direct memory access module ds. Dithering signal
    Cm j. Error value due to non-linearity at a first input voltage 6nl2. Error value due to non-linearity at a second input voltage FM. Flow meter HCM. Heat consumption meter HE. Fleet Exchanger L. Constant current generator
    Oi, Linear output curve
    Ou. Ideal output for a first input voltage
    Ol2 · Weal output for a second input voltage
    Oni .. Non-linear output curve
    Onli. Actual output for a first input voltage
    Onl2- Actual output for a second input voltage
    Optc Output using PTC resistor
    Ori. Output using first reference resistor
    Or2. Output using second reference resistor
    Org. Output range corresponding to analog ADC input signal
    Ri. First reference resistor R-2. Second, reference resistor
    RPTC. Positive temperature coefficient resistor SU. Switching unit ΊΑ. Temperature of incoming district heating water TS. Temperature sensor
    Tout. Temperature of outgoing district heating water
    Wine. Input voltage V i. First input voltage V . Second input voltage Ωρ-re. Resistance of PTC resistor
    Qri. Resistance of first reference resistor 0R2. Resistance of second reference resistor gC. Electronic microcontroller
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    [1] 1. A method for linearization of the output of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), said method comprising the steps of: creating an analog ADC input signal (ADC.S) by combining a substantially constant voltage (Vin) to be measured with an analog dithering signal (ds), feeding the analog ADC input signal to the ADC for converting it into a sequence of digital signal values, and - using the sequence of digital signal values for calculating a single resulting digital value representing the voltage to be measured, wherein the analog dithering signal is arranged so that the analog ADC input signal fed to the ADC causes the output (Org) of the ADC to vary over at least 50 %, preferably over at least 70 %, most preferred over at least 80 %, of the full output range of the ADC.
    [2] 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sequence of digital signal values for calculating a single resulting digital value comprises at least 100 values, preferably at least 500 values, most preferred at least 1000 values.
    [3] 3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the analogue dithering signal consists of at least half a period of a substantially sinusoidal signal.
    [4] 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the frequency of the substantially sinusoidal signal is between 50 Hz and 20 kHz, preferably between 200 Hz and 10 kHz, most preferred between 500 Hz and 4 kHz.
    [5] 5. The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the analog ADC input signal is created either by adding the analog dithering signal to the voltage to be measured or by subtracting the analog dithering signal from the voltage to be measured.
    [6] 6. The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the calcul ation of the resulting digital value representing the voltage to be measured includes an averaging of the sequence of digital signal values from the ADC.
    [7] 7. The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the analog dithering signal is produced using a digital-to-analog converter (DAC).
    [8] 8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the ADC and the DAC are both arranged within a single common electronic microcontroller circuit (pC).
    [9] 9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the microcontroller circuit further comprises a direct memory access module (DMA) arranged to feed data from an electronic memory' to the DAC for creation of the analog dithering signal during measurement.
    [10] 10. A temperature sensor (TS) using the method according to any of claims 1-9 for representing outputs from one or more temperature-dependent electronic components.
    [11] 11. The temperature sensor according to claim 10, wherein the temperature-dependent electronic components include at least one positive temperature coefficient resistor (RPTC) and the output therefrom is the voltage across the PTC resistor when a constant and well-defined current runs through the PTC resistor.
    [12] 12. The temperature sensor according to claim 11, wherein the resistance of the PTC resistor (OpTC) representing the temperature is calculated from the resulting digital value by linear interpolation between two digital reference values (Or; , £Jr2), which reference values are found using the method according to any of claims 1-9 for representing the voltage across two resistors (Rj, R2), respectively, each of which has a well-defined resistance and using the same constant and well-defined current as used for measuring the voltage across the PTC resistor.
    [13] 13. A heat consumption meter (HCM) comprising one or more temperature sensors according to any of claim 10-12 and a flow meter (FM), in which heat consumption meter the heat energy extracted from a flow of a fluid, such as district heating water, is calculated from the flow of the fluid and the difference between the temperatures (T;n, Tout) of the incoming fluid and the outgoing fluid, respectively.
    [14] 14. A heat consumption meter according to claim 13, wherein the flow meter is an ultrasonic flow meter measuring the difference between the transit times of ultrasonic pulses propagating in and against the flow direction, respectively.
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