Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Error-feedback SAR-ADC
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Application No.: US17842255Application Date: 2022-06-16
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Publication No.: US11955983B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Erlend Strandvik , Harald Garvik
- Applicant: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
- Applicant Address: NO Trondheim
- Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
- Current Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
- Current Assignee Address: NO Trondheim
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/06
- IPC: H03M1/06 ; H03M1/00

Abstract:
Analog to digital conversion circuitry has an input sampling buffer, which has an input sampling capacitor for sampling an analog signal. The conversion circuitry also has a successive-approximation-register analog to digital converter (SAR-ADC) which converts the sampled analog signal to a digital signal. The input sampling buffer has an amplifier and a gain-control capacitor, and has an amplification configuration and an error-feedback configuration. In the amplification configuration, the input sampling capacitor is coupled to the amplifier and gain-control capacitor, with the gain-control capacitor connected in feedback with the amplifier, for applying gain to the sampled analog signal. In the error-feedback configuration, the gain-control capacitor is decoupled from the input sampling capacitor and receives a residue voltage from the SAR-ADC, such that the level of the analog signal determined in the amplification configuration varies depending on the residue voltage received onto the gain-control capacitor in the error-feedback configuration.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220407530A1 ERROR-FEEDBACK SAR-ADC Public/Granted day:2022-12-22
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