Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALOG TO DIGITAL ERROR CONVERSION WITH MULTIPLE SYMMETRIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS
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Application No.: US15673234Application Date: 2017-08-09
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Publication No.: US20180048324A1Publication Date: 2018-02-15
- Inventor: Maheen Samad , Patrick J. Crotty , John Birkner , Herman Cheung , Kapil Shankar
- Applicant: AnDAPT, Inc.
- Main IPC: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10 ; H03K19/0175 ; H03K19/00

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
- US09998135B2 Method and apparatus for analog to digital error conversion with multiple symmetric transfer functions Public/Granted day:2018-06-12
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