Invention Grant
- Patent Title: INL curve correction in a pipeline ADC
- Patent Title (中): 管线ADC中的INL曲线校正
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Application No.: US11224432Application Date: 2005-09-12
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Publication No.: US07348906B2Publication Date: 2008-03-25
- Inventor: John J. O'Donnell , Colin Gerard Lyden , David G. Nairn
- Applicant: John J. O'Donnell , Colin Gerard Lyden , David G. Nairn
- Applicant Address: US MA Norwood
- Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Norwood
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: H03M1/20
- IPC: H03M1/20

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and system for reducing integral non linearity errors in a pipeline Analog to Digital Converter (ADC). The invention provides in a first embodiment a method comprising the steps of: adding an analog dither signal to the analog input signal of a pipeline Analog to Digital Converter, and converting the analog input signal to a digital output signal by means of the pipeline Analog to Digital Converter. The amplitude of the analog dither signal is determined by the architecture of the Analog to Digital Converter. The invention also provides in a second embodiment a circuit comprising a pipeline analog to digital converter for converting an analog input signal to a digital output signal and a feedback circuit coupled to the converter such that the digital output signal is adapted to have an average non linearity error value of about zero LSBs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060114144A1 INL curve correction in a pipeline ADC Public/Granted day:2006-06-01
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