Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Analog to digital converter
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Application No.: US15720613Application Date: 2017-09-29
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Publication No.: US10256834B1Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Martin Kinyua
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: TW
- Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: TW
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; H03M1/34 ; H03M1/14

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter (“ADC”) has an input terminal configured to receive an analog input voltage signal. A first ADC stage is coupled to the input terminal and is configured to output a first digital value corresponding to the analog input voltage signal and an analog residue signal corresponding to a difference between the first digital value and the analog input signal. A second ADC stage is coupled to the first ADC stage and is configured to convert the analog residue signal to a second digital value. At least one of the first ADC stage and the second ADC stage includes a first sub-stage configured to convert an analog signal to a first number of bits of a digital value representing the analog signal, and a second sub-stage configured to convert the analog signal to a second number of bits of the digital value, where the second number of bits is greater than the first number of bits. A controller is coupled to the first and second ADC stages and configured to combine the first digital value and the second digital value into a digital output signal representing the analog input voltage signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190103878A1 ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2019-04-04
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