Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power-efficient flash quantizer for delta sigma converter
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Application No.: US15914833Application Date: 2018-03-07
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Publication No.: US10284221B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Abhishek Bandyopadhyay , Daniel Peter Canniff , Mariana Tosheva Markova , Edward Chapin Guthrie
- Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Norwood
- Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Norwood
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00 ; H03M1/06 ; H03M1/36 ; H03M3/00 ; H03M3/02 ; H03M3/04

Abstract:
A multibit flash quantizer circuit, such as included as a portion of delta-sigma conversion circuit, can be operated in a dynamic or configurable manner. Information indicative of at least one of an ADC input slew rate or a prior quantizer output code can be used to establish a flash quantizer conversion window. Within the selected conversion window, comparators in the quantizer circuit can be made active. Comparators outside the conversion window can be made dormant, such as depowered or biased to save power. An output from such dormant converters can be preloaded and latched. In this manner, full resolution is available without requiring that all comparator circuits within the quantizer remain active at all times.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180309460A1 POWER-EFFICIENT FLASH QUANTIZER FOR DELTA SIGMA CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2018-10-25
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