Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ramp-based analog to digital converters
- Patent Title (中): 基于斜坡的模数转换器
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Application No.: US12446977Application Date: 2006-10-25
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Publication No.: US07884748B2Publication Date: 2011-02-08
- Inventor: Eric Delagnes
- Applicant: Eric Delagnes
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
- Current Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP
- International Application: PCT/IB2006/003990 WO 20061025
- International Announcement: WO2008/050177 WO 20080502
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12

Abstract:
The invention provides an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the single ramp type, comprising a ramp generator (101), a clock (102), a digital counter (103) timed by the clock (102), and at least one channel (101, . . . , 10i, . . . , 10n) for data processing, the or each channel comprising a comparator (201, . . . , 20i, . . . , 20n) having an input connected to the ramp generator (101) and the output of which causes for each conversion cycle the storage of the current counter value as a coarse conversion data. According to the present invention, the or each channel (101, . . . , 10i, . . . , 10n) further comprises a delay-chain time interpolator (401, . . . , 40i, . . . , 40n, 501, . . . , 50i, . . . , 50n) responsive to the output of the comparator and to the clock (102), for interpolating time within a clock period from the triggering time of the comparator, said interpolator delivering a time-interpolation output signal as a fine conversion data which is combined to the coarse conversion data for each conversion cycle. Application to an increased resolution without excess power consumption or increased conversion period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100026545A1 RAMP-BASED ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS Public/Granted day:2010-02-04
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