Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flash analog to digital converter and calibration method
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Application No.: US17333063Application Date: 2021-05-28
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Publication No.: US11418206B2Publication Date: 2022-08-16
- Inventor: Shih-Hsiung Huang , Ying-Cheng Wu , Chien-Ming Wu , Kai-Yin Liu
- Applicant: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: WPAT, PC
- Priority: TW109129851 20200901
- Main IPC: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10 ; H03M1/36 ; H03M1/46

Abstract:
A flash analog to digital converter includes double differential comparator circuits and a calibration circuit. Each double differential comparator circuit compares a first input signal with a corresponding voltage in a first set of reference voltages, and compares a second input signal with a corresponding voltage in a second set of reference voltages, in order to generate a corresponding signal in first signals. The calibration circuit outputs a first test signal to be the first input signal and outputs a second test signal to be the second input signal in a test mode, and calibrates a common mode level of each of the first input signal and the second input signal, or calibrates at least one first reference voltage in the first set of reference voltages and at least one second reference voltage in the second set of reference voltages according to a distribution of the first signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220069831A1 FLASH ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER AND CALIBRATION METHOD Public/Granted day:2022-03-03
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