Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Converter circuit, corresponding device and offset compensation method
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Application No.: US17211355Application Date: 2021-03-24
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Publication No.: US11368165B2Publication Date: 2022-06-21
- Inventor: Calogero Marco Ippolito , Michele Vaiana
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Slater Matsil, LLP
- Priority: IT102020000007021 20200402
- Main IPC: H03M1/06
- IPC: H03M1/06 ; H03M3/00

Abstract:
A converter circuit includes an analog-to-digital signal conversion path. An input port receives an analog input signal having an offset, and an output port delivers a digital output signal quantized over M levels. The digital output signal is sensed by a digital-to-analog feedback path, which includes a digital-to-analog converter applying to the input port an analog feedback signal produced as a function of an M-bit digital word under control of a two-state signal having alternating first and second states. M-bit digital word generation circuitry coupled to the digital-to-analog converter and sensitive to the two-state signal produces, alternately, during the first states, a first M-bit digital word, which is a function of the digital output signal quantized over M levels, and, during the second states, a second M-bit digital word, which is a function a correction value of the offset in the analog input signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210314000A1 CONVERTER CIRCUIT, CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND OFFSET COMPENSATION METHOD Public/Granted day:2021-10-07
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