Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Charge injection mechanism for analog-to-digital converters
- Patent Title (中): 模数转换器的电荷注入机制
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Application No.: US12959317Application Date: 2010-12-02
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Publication No.: US08223049B2Publication Date: 2012-07-17
- Inventor: Fredrik Larsen , Frode Milch Pedersen , Jan Rune Herheim , Ronan Barzic
- Applicant: Fredrik Larsen , Frode Milch Pedersen , Jan Rune Herheim , Ronan Barzic
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Atmel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Atmel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00

Abstract:
A low-cost charge injection mechanism may enable oversampling to be used on low frequency signals by injecting dither noise into the ADC input. The dither noise can reduce the quantization noise allowing even direct current (DC) signals to be oversampled correctly. A low-cost charge injection mechanism can also be used to improve the ENOB by characterizing the ADC and digitally correcting the converted signal for non-linearity errors such as INL. Reducing INL errors may also allow a higher degree of oversampling to be used to further improve the ENOB.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120139767A1 CHARGE INJECTION MECHANISM FOR ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS Public/Granted day:2012-06-07
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