Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Analog-to-digital converter reusing comparator for residue amplifier for noise shaping
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Application No.: US15912128Application Date: 2018-03-05
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Publication No.: US10284213B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Abhishek Bandyopadhyay , Rong Jin
- Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Norwood
- Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Norwood
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; H03M1/08 ; H03M1/80 ; H03M3/00 ; H03M1/46

Abstract:
Some or all of a comparator circuit of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit can be efficiently repurposed or reused for residue amplification for efficient noise-shaping, e.g., in a noise-shaping feedback configuration. A preamplifier portion of a comparator circuit in an oversampling ADC can be re-purposed to provide an amplifier to amplify or otherwise modify a residue left after the bit trials of a conversion cycle. The amplified or modified residue can then be used elsewhere, for example, for noise-shaping by applying a noise transfer function (NTF), a result of which can then be fed back (e.g., summed with the next sampled input at an input of the comparator circuit for use in the N bit trials of the next ADC cycle).
Public/Granted literature
- US20180309458A1 ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER REUSING COMPARATOR FOR RESIDUE AMPLIFIER FOR NOISE SHAPING Public/Granted day:2018-10-25
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