SNOA952 May   2016 FDC2112 , FDC2112-Q1 , FDC2114 , FDC2114-Q1 , FDC2212 , FDC2212-Q1 , FDC2214 , FDC2214-Q1

 

  1.   Ground Shifting in Capacitive Sensing Applications
    1.     Trademarks
    2. 1 Introduction
    3. 2 Mathematical Modeling
      1. 2.1 Different Grounding Configurations
        1. 2.1.1 Earth Ground Referenced
        2. 2.1.2 Floating Ground Referenced
          1. 2.1.2.1 Large Local Ground Plane
    4. 3 Qualitative Test Setup
      1. 3.1 Earth Ground Referenced Laptop
      2. 3.2 Floating Laptop
      3. 3.3 Floating Laptop With Large Local Ground Plane
    5. 4 Conclusion

2.1 Different Grounding Configurations

System ground configurations are differentiated by their use of either earth ground or local ground. For example, if the sensor PCB is connected to a battery and has no other connections to the external world, the observed performance is different than that of a system referenced to earth ground when parasitic capacitances are introduced. The location and size of the ground reference also makes a difference.