Integrator Circuit Issue

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Joined Nov 30, 2010
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I keep seeing this as a voltage driving a proportional current generator. Problem for me is that the accumulating capacitor is always inside the feedback loop (no end grounded). I suppose one could take that information to a differential amplifier in the following stage.
 

crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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Here's a circuit that generates a current proportional to the positive input voltage into a grounded cap to provide the integrate function.
The circuit uses a differential connection op amp with its input referenced to the plus supply along with a P-MOSFET to generate a current to a grounded load.
The LTspice simulation below shows that it only integrates on the positive half of the input sine-wave.
You will need to add a switch to ground the cap and reset it for the next measurement.

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crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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As an alternate circuit (offset not sensitive to resistor values), below is the simulation of dl324's circuit using MOSFETs.
I had to change to a rail-rail input and output op amp since the the common-mode range of the LM358 only goes to within about 1.5V of the positive rail.


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Eoin_oc

Joined Oct 24, 2015
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Here's a circuit that generates a current proportional to the positive input voltage into a grounded cap to provide the integrate function.
The circuit uses a differential connection op amp with its input referenced to the plus supply along with a P-MOSFET to generate a current to a grounded load.
The LTspice simulation below shows that it only integrates on the positive half of the input sine-wave.
You will need to add a switch to ground the cap and reset it for the next measurement.

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Which resistor is used here to set the current that flows into the capacitor?
Is it Rsense? I would like for a capacitor of around 1uF to charge up to 3.5V in 100ms with a constant 3.5V input level.
 
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crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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Which resistor is used here to set the current that flows into the capacitor?
Is it Rsense? I would like for a capacitor of around 1μF to charge up to 3.5V in 100ms with a constant 3.5V input level.
Yes, Rsense is one resistor that sets the flow.
For 3.5V out in 100ms for a 3.5V input requires an integrator time-constant of 100ms.

That time-constant with 1μF will give an offset problem with the circuit in post #25 so you would need to use the one in post #26, modified as shown here.

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JamesBond007

Joined Oct 25, 2015
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OK. What is summation (integration) ?
The addition of all values of a variable (voltage) over a period of time.
Integration is: over some time, a voltage is sampled at infinitely small periods of time, and measurements are taken over such a short period of time that they are equivalently zero, yet multiplying these infinity small and discrete sums over an infinite time frame (according to Newton), gives us a finite value.
 
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