Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wideband Nyquist VCO-based analog-to-digital converter
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Application No.: US15507704Application Date: 2015-09-02
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Publication No.: US10009038B2Publication Date: 2018-06-26
- Inventor: Shuo-Wei Chen
- Applicant: University of Southern California
- Applicant Address: US CA Los Angeles
- Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Los Angeles
- Agency: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
- International Application: PCT/US2015/048110 WO 20150902
- International Announcement: WO2016/081046 WO 20160526
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; H03M1/14 ; H03M1/50 ; H03M1/06 ; H03M1/10 ; H03M1/60

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter may convert an analog signal into digital codes representative of the changing level of the analog signal. An analog high pass filter may receive and continuously differentiate the analog signal. A voltage controlled oscillator may receive the differentiated analog signal and continuously generates an output that is an integral of the differentiated analog signal in the phase domain. A time-to-digital converter may sample the output of the voltage controlled oscillator and convert each sample into a digital code representative of the current phase of the sampled output of the voltage controlled oscillator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170310334A1 WIDEBAND NYQUIST VCO-BASED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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