Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Successive approximation analog-to-digital converter
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Application No.: US15924945Application Date: 2018-03-19
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Publication No.: US10312932B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Yohei Nakamura , Taizo Yamawaki
- Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2017-168727 20170901
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; H03M1/46

Abstract:
The resolution of a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter is varied in a wide range. Provided is a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter including a digital-to-analog converter that generates an analog voltage based on a digital code, a comparator to which the analog voltage as the output of the digital-to-analog converter is inputted, a DAC control circuit that generates the digital code of an input voltage sampled from an external clock signal by successively changing the digital code based on the output of the comparator, a delay circuit that starts the determination of the comparator by signal transition generated by delaying the signal state change of the output of the comparator, a clock generation circuit that generates a signal starting the determination of the comparator, and a selector circuit that selects a signal generated by the delay circuit or a signal generated by the clock generation circuit to feed the selected signal to the comparator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190074845A1 Successive Approximation Analog-To-Digital Converter Public/Granted day:2019-03-07
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