Abstract:
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and an AD converter that are capable of suppressing the occurrence of an error in AD conversion results.The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel section having a plurality of pixels, a comparator for comparing a pixel signal outputted from the pixels with a reference signal, and a counter for counting the time of comparison made by the comparator. The comparator includes a first amplifier for comparing the pixel signal with the reference signal, a second amplifier that has a first transistor and amplifies an output signal of the first amplifier, and a second transistor having the same polarity as the first transistor. A gate of the second transistor is connected to an output end of the first amplifier, and a source and a drain of the second transistor are connected to the same fixed potential as a source of the first transistor. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a CMOS image sensor.
Abstract:
An apparatus for compensating for nonlinearities in a DAC caused by variabilities of a power supply. The apparatus may include a power supply, a processing component, and a front-end circuit. The power supply may generate power, where the power includes variabilities in a power. The processing component may generate a digital signal. The front-end circuit may be operatively coupled to the power supply and the processing component. The front-end circuit may receive the power from the power supply, identify the nonlinearities in the power, receive the digital signal from the processing component, and adjust the digital signal for the nonlinearities to obtain an input signal to send to a digital to analog converter (DAC).
Abstract:
In one aspect a system is provided. The system a plurality of flash compare modules to output a set of unordered output signals based on an analog input signal; a plurality of device selection modules that receive the unordered output signals and generate ordered signals representing the analog input; and a temperature and voltage compensation module for receiving one or more of temperature and voltage signals from at least a temperature and voltage sensor module that senses one or more of temperature and voltage values that are used to compensate for changes in output signals caused by changes in one or more of die temperature and core voltage.
Abstract:
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a processing system may include a plurality of processing paths including a first processing path and a second processing path, a digital-to-analog stage output, and a controller. The first processing path may include a first digital-to-analog converter for converting the digital input signal into a first intermediate analog signal, the first digital-to-analog converter configured to operate in a high-power state and a low-power state. The second processing path may include a second digital-to-analog converter for converting a digital input signal into a second intermediate analog signal. The digital-to-analog stage output may be configured to generate an analog signal comprising a sum of the first intermediate analog signal and the second intermediate analog signal. The controller may be configured to operate the first digital-to-analog converter in the lower-power state when a magnitude of the digital input signal is below a threshold magnitude.
Abstract:
A negative-capacitance circuit comprises a first node coupled to a drain of a first transistor and a gate of a second transistor; a second node coupled to a drain of the second transistor and a gate of the first transistor; a capacitor coupled between a source of the first transistor and a source of the second transistor; a first current mirror coupled between a supply voltage and the source of the first transistor; and a second current mirror coupled between the supply voltage and the source of the second transistor. The circuit can be configured to drive the differential capacitive load between the first and second nodes in a shorter time period, thereby increasing the transfer bandwidth of the differential signal.
Abstract:
A converter with an additional DC offset includes a switch circuit, a first capacitor, a plurality of additional capacitor cells and an operational amplifier. The converter uses a first additional capacitor cell and a second additional capacitor cell having a capacitor difference with the first additional capacitor to store two charges having different polarity and magnitude with each other, and further generate an inverted DC offset according to a difference between the two charges to compensate a DC offset.
Abstract:
According to an embodiment, a power supply noise cancelling circuit includes a generator, a first multiplier, a subtractor and a digital-to-analog converter. The generator generates a sine wave signal. The first multiplier multiplies a digital input signal by a digital signal based on the sine wave signal to generate a first digital product signal. The subtractor subtracts a digital signal based on the first digital product signal from the digital input signal to generate a digital difference signal. The digital-to-analog converter performs a digital-to-analog conversion on the digital difference signal to obtain an analog output signal.
Abstract:
A method, comprising: selecting three Two-Tuples before and three after a selected synchronous ADC conversion point; calculating the coefficients of a third order polynomial based on the value of the previous time asynchronous sample, the time difference between the asynchronous samples surrounding the selected sample, and the five linear slopes of the line segments between the three points before and the points after the selected synchronous sample point, including the slope of the selected point; evaluating the third order polynomial at the synchronous time instant; generating the synchronous ADC value based on this calculation; and using the ADC value as the desired voltage level of the synchronous sample, wherein the synchronous ADC value is generated based on this calculation.
Abstract:
The differential output of a Programmable Gain Amplifier (PGA) is loaded by the input differential gate capacitance of a plurality of Analog to Digital converters (ADC) comparators and the differential metal layer traces to interconnect these comparators to the PGA. The differential capacitive load presented to the PGA is quite large and reduces the bandwidth of this interconnect between the PGA and ADC. To overcome the performance degradation due to the differential capacitive load, an active negative-capacitor circuit cancels the effect of the large input capacitance of the ADC comparators. This cancellation extends the gain characteristics of the interconnect between the PGA's output and the inputs of the first stage of the comparators. The active negative-capacitance is comprised of a cross pair NMOS with a capacitor connecting their sources where each NMOS is biased by a current source.
Abstract:
An apparatus, comprising: an analog to digital converter including: a clipping detector; and a post-processor, wherein the post processor generates synchronous values of clipped data based on non-clipped values of non-clipped data.