Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Successive approximation type analog-to-digital (A/D) converter
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Application No.: US15814955Application Date: 2017-11-16
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Publication No.: US10090851B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Shuzo Hiraide
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00 ; H03M1/38 ; H03M1/10 ; H01G4/002 ; H03M1/26

Abstract:
A sampling circuit in a successive approximation type analog-to-digital (A/D) converting device samples a pair of analog signals constituting a differential input signal. A capacitor circuit reflects a signal level of a reference signal in the pair of analog signals through an attenuation capacitance unit and a binary capacitance unit to generate a pair of voltage signals. A comparison circuit compares the pair of voltage signals. A control circuit determines a value of each bit of a digital signal on the basis of the result of the comparison and reflects the value in the reference signal. The attenuation capacitance unit includes a fixed capacitance unit connected between a signal node at which the sampled analog signals are held and a predetermined potential node and a variable capacitance unit connected between the signal node and the predetermined potential node in parallel with the fixed capacitance unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180083646A1 SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION TYPE ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL (A/D) CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2018-03-22
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