Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter topology with improved distortion performance
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Application No.: US15153384Application Date: 2016-05-12
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Publication No.: US09729165B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Amit K. Gupta , Peng Cao , Venkatesh Acharya
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Goutham Kondapalli; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H03M1/06
- IPC: H03M1/06 ; H03M3/00

Abstract:
A delta-sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) (IC) which includes an input feed-forward path extending from an input to the ADC to a feed-forward summing circuit disposed between a loop filter and quantizer of the ADC, and a filter disposed in the feed-forward path as an apparatus for improving distortion performance in the delta-sigma ADC. The filter may be a low pass filter, for example, a Resistor-Capacitor (RC) circuit. The filter may have a cut-off frequency outside the ADC's passband. The filtering provided may be continuous-time filtering, even if the delta-sigma ADC is a discrete-time delta-sigma ADC.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160336956A1 Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter Topology with Improved Distortion Performance Public/Granted day:2016-11-17
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