Invention Grant
- Patent Title: A/D converter and semiconductor device
-
Application No.: US16411520Application Date: 2019-05-14
-
Publication No.: US10608659B2Publication Date: 2020-03-31
- Inventor: Yasuyuki Tanaka , Masaaki Tanimura
- Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2018-114597 20180615
- Main IPC: H03M1/18
- IPC: H03M1/18 ; H03M1/34 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
An A/D converter includes an A/D conversion circuit for converting an analog output signal into a digital signal, and a control circuit for controlling the A/D conversion circuit. The control circuit acquires a digital signal of a first bit indicating which level regions the voltage level of the analog output signal corresponds to in accordance with a first conversion operation by the A/D conversion circuit, sets a reference voltage corresponding to the level region based on the first bit, amplifies the difference voltage between the analog output signal and the reference voltage to correspond to the A/D conversion input range of the A/D conversion circuit, outputs an amplified analog signal, acquires a digital signal of a second bit indicating the voltage level of the amplified analog signal in accordance with a second conversion operation by the A/D conversion circuit, and synthesizes the first bit and the second bit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190386671A1 A/D CONVERTER AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-12-19
Information query
IPC分类: