SDAA488 August 2026 AMC0106M05 , AMC0106M25
This application note compares two shunt-based, in-phase current sensing designs for three-phase motor control inverters operated from 24V to 100V DC bus voltages: the AMC0106M05 and AMC0106M25 functionally isolated delta-sigma modulators and the INA241A non-isolated current sense amplifier with enhanced PWM rejection. The AMC0106M05 supports a ±50mV and the AMC0106M25 a ±250mV linear input range; the INA241A operates over a -5V to 110V common-mode input range. Typical applications are battery-operated drones, servo drives, and collaborative or humanoid robots powered from sub-60V supplies. Both devices are shown to achieve sub-1% measurement accuracy over the full industrial temperature range, meeting the requirements of precision motor control.
Key trade-offs between the two architectures are examined across resolution, noise immunity, propagation delay, and MCU interface requirements. The AMC0106Mxx dual-ground architecture is shown to provide inherent PWM switching noise immunity without blanking periods, achieving greater than 12-bit ENOB through oversampling with a Sinc3 filter at OSR32–128, at the cost of a dedicated high-side supply and an MCU with sigma-delta filter channels. The INA241A is shown to achieve 9 to 11-bit ENOB with a 0.25µs propagation delay at 1MHz bandwidth using a switched-capacitor PWM rejection filter, requiring only an external ADC and voltage reference. Both designs offer small total sizes, making these designs excellent choices for space-constrained motor control designs.