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To realize miniaturization, low power consumption, and easy integration, an analog interface circuit including a DC capacitance elimination array and switch synchronous demodulation module was designed. The DC capacitance elimination array allows the measurement circuit to achieve a very high capacitance to voltage conversion ratio at a low supply voltage. Further, the switch synchronous demodulation module effectively removes the carrier signal and greatly reduces the sampling rate requirement of the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ASIC was designed and fabricated with standard 0.18 \u00b5m CMOS processing technology and integrated with the sensitive structure. An experiment was conducted to test and characterize the performance of the proposed analog interface circuit. The encoder measurement results showed a resolution of 0.01\u00b0, power consumption of 20 mW, and accuracy over the full absolute range of 0.1\u00b0, which indicates the great potential of the encoder for application in control machine systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19143116","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,16]],"date-time":"2019-07-16T02:23:16Z","timestamp":1563243796000},"page":"3116","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["An Analog Interface Circuit for Capacitive Angle Encoder Based on a Capacitance Elimination Array and Synchronous Switch Demodulation Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4030-0716","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bo","family":"Hou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7206-6418","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bin","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0018-3711","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9147-0873","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhenyi","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3189-7562","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qi","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]},{"given":"Rong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"296","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ymssp.2015.03.027","article-title":"Measurement of Position Deviation and Eccentricity for \u03bc-Disc-Type Inductive Micro-Motor","volume":"64\u201365","author":"Lin","year":"2015","journal-title":"Mech. 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