Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Asynchronous successive approximation analog-to-digital converter and related methods and apparatus
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Application No.: US15605469Application Date: 2017-05-25
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Publication No.: US10014871B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Kailiang Chen , Tyler S. Ralston
- Applicant: Butterfly Network, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CT Guilford
- Assignee: Butterfly Network, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Butterfly Network, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Guilford
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; H03M1/00 ; A61B8/00 ; H03M1/46

Abstract:
An ultrasound device including an asynchronous successive approximation analog-to-digital converter and method are provided. The device includes at least one ultrasonic transducer, a plurality of asynchronous successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADC) coupled to the at least one ultrasonic transducer, at least one asynchronous SAR in the plurality having a sample and hold stage, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a comparator, and control circuitry, wherein a DAC update event following at least one bit conversion is synchronized to a corresponding DAC update event of at least one other ADC in the plurality of ADCs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170264307A1 ASYNCHRONOUS SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-09-14
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