摘要:
Facilitating a reduction in sensor system latency, circuit size, and current draw utilizing a group of continuous-time Nyquist rate analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) in a round-robin manner is presented herein. A sensor system can comprise a group of sensors that generate respective sensor output signals based on an external excitation of the sensor system; a multiplexer that facilitates a selection, based on a sensor selection input, of a sensor output signal of the respective sensor output signals corresponding to a sensor of the group of sensors; a sense amplifier comprising a charge or voltage sensing circuit that converts the sensor output signal to an analog output signal; and a continuous-time Nyquist rate analog-to-digital converter of the group of continuous-time Nyquist rate ADCs that converts the analog output signal to a digital output signal representing at least a portion of the external excitation of the sensor system.
摘要:
A non-linear pulse code modulator wherein input signals are coded into digital representations of amplitude range segments and amplitude in excess of the minimum amplitude within the respective range segment uses a first analog-to-digital converter having a sawtooth-shaped control characteristic to determine the amplitude range segment from an input signal sample. The output of the first analog-to-digital converter is used to effectively divide the signal sample by a factor 2.sup.n, where n corresponds to the determined range. The result of the division is then converted in a second analog-to-digital conversion to a digital signal that is combined with the digital range segment signal for transmission thereof.