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- Patent Title: Linearity in a quantized feedback loop
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Application No.: US16503553Application Date: 2019-07-04
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Publication No.: US10680638B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: A. Martin Mallinson
- Applicant: SiliconIntervention Inc.
- Applicant Address: CA Kelowna
- Assignee: SiliconIntervention Inc.
- Current Assignee: SiliconIntervention Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Kelowna
- Agency: Gard & Kaslow LLP
- Main IPC: H03M3/00
- IPC: H03M3/00 ; H03L7/197

Abstract:
Described herein is a method and apparatus for reducing ISI in a single-bit ΣΔ modulator without reducing the dynamic range of the modulator. In one embodiment, the signal fed back to the input of the modulator is not the single-bit outputs of a quantizer as in the prior art, but rather patterns of such outputs. The patterns are selected so that each pattern has the same number of transition edges and there is thus no mismatch of transition times. In one embodiment, the patterns are created by digital logic. In another embodiment, an analog signal is added to the error signal in the feedback loop which causes the quantizer to generate the patterns. When the amplitude of the input signal exceeds a certain level, the modulator reverts to the typical operation of a prior art modulator, thus preserving the full dynamic range of the modulator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200014398A1 Linearity in a Quantized Feedback Loop Public/Granted day:2020-01-09
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