Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adaptive bias current generation for switched-capacitor circuits
- Patent Title (中): 开关电容电路的自适应偏置电流产生
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Application No.: US12185046Application Date: 2008-08-01
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Publication No.: US07750837B2Publication Date: 2010-07-06
- Inventor: Chuanyang Wang , Xiaohong Quan , Seyfollah Bazarjani
- Applicant: Chuanyang Wang , Xiaohong Quan , Seyfollah Bazarjani
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agent Jiayu Xu
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12

Abstract:
Techniques for adaptively generating bias current for a switched-capacitor circuit are described. The switched-capacitor circuit charges and discharges at least one switching capacitor at a sampling rate and may be a ΣΔ ADC that digitizes an analog signal at the sampling rate and provides digital samples. The switched-capacitor circuit may support multiple modes associated with different sampling rates. A bias circuit generates a bias current for the switched-capacitor circuit to be proportional to the sampling rate for a selected mode, to provide a bandwidth proportional to the sampling rate for an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) within the switched-capacitor circuit, and to track changes in the switching capacitor(s) due to variations in integrated circuit (IC) process and temperature. The settling time of the switched-capacitor circuit may track with the multiple modes and across IC process and temperature variations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100026542A1 ADAPTIVE BIAS CURRENT GENERATION FOR SWITCHED-CAPACITOR CIRCUITS Public/Granted day:2010-02-04
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