Apparatus for measuring resistivity of an earth formation using delta-sigma digital signal generation and sigma-delta digital detection system

摘要

An apparatus for measuring resistivity of an earth formation. The apparatus includes at least one source of measuring current. The source includes a delta-sigma modulator and a serial bit source coupled to the modulator. The serial bit source represents the magnitude of the measuring current at spaced apart time intervals. The apparatus includes a sensor responsive to formation current resulting from interaction of the measure current with the earth formation. The sensor is coupled to a sigma-delta modulator. The modulator is coupled to a digital mixer and a digital filter. The output of the digital filter corresponds to the magnitude of the measure current detected by the sensor sampled at spaced apart time intervals. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus includes a plurality of current sources each having a different frequency. The sigma-delta modulator is coupled to a plurality of mixers each for demodulating one of the different source frequencies.