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Reply #15 - Feb 29th, 2012, 2:27pm
 
If you do this as an analog method then
it can require some filtering and big circuits.

There are digital methods that work
nicely at low frequencies.

at the feedback summation point its a
DAC summed with the input signal.

For the LPF system, digital averaging
to determine DC is easily done.

A purely analog approach will not be size efficient.

Interesting thing - if the signals are well defined
then your ADC to detect DC offset can be as simple as a
comparator and some DSP. For a DC balanced signal you
are just trying to maintain 50% duty cycle out of the comparator
to get rid of the offset.

A digital counter-averaging system  is orders of magnitude
smaller than an integration capacitor.
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Reply #16 - Feb 29th, 2012, 2:41pm
 
For everyone suggesting purely analog methods...

Did the world not "go digital" about 40 years back?

LOL!

Just saying!

The method I described above I have used
in a bunch of DC offset
cancellation methods for receiver channels in cell
phones, and in a prior life disk drive read channels.

You need to understand the frequency of offset
update, its magnitude and how it affects the signal.

But if you think that out its a very robust solution.
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Re: Passive filter Implementation
Reply #17 - Feb 29th, 2012, 2:46pm
 
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Curious what numbers you came up with...

Considering first order LR with tau at L/R and the desired tau 20sec, even with a resistor 10 Ohms, L should be 200H. If a gyrator has inductance L=C/gm^2, and let's suppose minimum gm value is 5uA/V, C should be 5nF...heh

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