Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital-to-analogue converter
- Patent Title (中): 数模转换器
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Application No.: US14350698Application Date: 2012-10-08
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Publication No.: US09041577B2Publication Date: 2015-05-26
- Inventor: François Bore , Marc Wingender , Emmanuel Dumaine
- Applicant: E2V Semiconductors
- Applicant Address: FR Saint-Égreève
- Assignee: E2V Semiconductors
- Current Assignee: E2V Semiconductors
- Current Assignee Address: FR Saint-Égreève
- Agency: Lowe Hauptman & Ham, LLP
- Priority: FR1159577 20111021
- International Application: PCT/EP2012/069828 WO 20121008
- International Announcement: WO2013/056997 WO 20130425
- Main IPC: H03M1/66
- IPC: H03M1/66 ; H03M1/74 ; H03M1/08

Abstract:
The invention relates to digital-to-analog converters for converting current. The converter includes a pair of differential branches with two transistors controlled by a digital register activated at a clock frequency, and two resistive loads receiving the currents of the differential branches to produce a differential electrical signal representing the analog result of the conversion. The converter includes a dual switching circuit for the currents of the differential branches: a first switching circuit enables the transmission of the currents of the differential branches toward the loads for 70% to 95% of the clock period and shunts these currents outside the loads for the rest of the time; a second switching circuit alternately and symmetrically makes a direct link followed by a cross link between the differential branches and the loads. The converter provides a signal with high spectral purity and can work with a good level of power in the four Nyquist zones of the spectrum of the output analog signal, and notably in the second and third zones.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140253356A1 DIGITAL-TO-ANALOGUE CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2014-09-11
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