Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Current controlled MDAC for time-interleaved ADCS and related methods
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Application No.: US16288234Application Date: 2019-02-28
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Publication No.: US10581446B1Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Brandt Braswell , George Kunnen , Mark Lancaster
- Applicant: NXP USA, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Main IPC: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10

Abstract:
Current controlled multiplying digital-to-analog converters (MDACs) and related methods are disclosed for time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). For one embodiment, a circuit includes an MDAC having an amplifier that converts a voltage to an output current, a variable load that is dependent upon a digital value and that controls the output current from the amplifier, and an array of comparators that receive the voltage and output the digital value to the variable load. The digital value represents at least a portion of a digital conversion of the voltage. Further, the circuit can include a phased current generator that receives the output current and generates time-interleaved currents where each time-interleaved current is a sampled copy of the output current.
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