Article: Active-feedback IC serves as current-sensing instrumentation amplifier. (design ideas).

HIGH-SPEED current sensing presents a designer with some significant challenges. Most techniques for sensing current involve measuring the differential voltage the current produces as it flows through a sense element, such as a resistor or a Hall-effect device. The differential voltage across the sense element is generally small and is often riding on a common-mode voltage that is considerably larger than the differential voltage itself. Accurate amplification of the differential voltage requires a differential amplifier with high input impedance, high CMR (common-mode rejection); wide input-common-mode voltage range; and high, well-defined gain. Traditional ...

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