Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for analog to digital error conversion with multiple symmetric transfer functions
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Application No.: US15977826Application Date: 2018-05-11
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Publication No.: US10200056B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Maheen Samad , Patrick J. Crotty , John Birkner , Herman Cheung , Kapil Shankar
- Applicant: AnDAPT, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: AnDAPT, Inc.
- Current Assignee: AnDAPT, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Innovation Counsel LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/08
- IPC: H03M1/08 ; H03M1/10 ; H03K19/0175 ; H03K19/00 ; H03M1/60

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) block includes: an amplifier block configured to receive two analog input signals and a primary-precision configuration signal and generate a first pair of differential signals by amplifying the two analog input signals according to a primary-precision gain that is programmably set by the primary-precision configuration signal; a configuration block configured to receive a fractional-precision configuration signal and generate a second pair of differential signals by amplifying the first pair of differential signals according to a fractional-precision gain that is programmably set by the fractional-precision configuration signal; and a differential analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), two counters, and an error generator block. The VCO receives the second pair of differential signals and generates two pulse signals having frequencies that vary depending on a difference between the second pair of differential signals. Each of the two counters receives a respective pulse signal from the VCO and generate a digital counter value. The error generator block receives digital counter values from the two digital counters generates a digital conversion code corresponding to a difference between the digital counter values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180262202A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALOG TO DIGITAL ERROR CONVERSION WITH MULTIPLE SYMMETRIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS Public/Granted day:2018-09-13
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