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Article: Single IC forms inexpensive inductance tester.
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- Article date:
- August 2, 2007
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Luca Bruno, ITIS Hensemberger Monza, Lissone, Italy
This Design Idea shows how to build a reliable, low-cost, and simple inductance tester. The basis for the tester is a Pierce buffered CMOS oscillator (Figure 1 ). Instead of using the usual quartz crystal, you connect the inductor under test. This oscillator uses a single CMOS inverter biased through resistor R1 in its linear region to form a high-gain inverting amplifier. Because of its high gain, the inverter dissipates lower power than an unbuffered gate; even a small signal drives the output high and low.
The LCI network forms a parallel resonator that ideally resonates at the frequency fO =1/2IaLX ...