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Current-Mode Wheatstone Bridge

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Current-Mode Instrumentation Amplifiers

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Current chapter deals with Wheatstone Bridges with the focus on Current-Mode Wheatstone Bridge and its associated signal conditioning circuits. The operation, advantages and drawbacks of each circuit are discussed in detail. To make the comparison between traditional Voltage-Mode Wheatstone Bridge and Current-Mode Wheatstone Bridge more convenient, at the beginning of this chapter, the concept of Voltage-Mode Wheatstone Bridge is briefly summarized. The theory of Mixed-Mode Wheatstone Bridge and read-out circuits are also included.

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  1. Tehran, Iran

    Leila Safari

  2. University of L’Aquila, L’aquila, Italy

    Giuseppe Ferri & Vincenzo Stornelli

  3. Doğuş University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Shahram Minaei

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Safari, L., Ferri, G., Minaei, S., Stornelli, V. (2019). Current-Mode Wheatstone Bridge. In: Current-Mode Instrumentation Amplifiers . Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01343-1_3

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