Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Switched-capacitor band-pass filter of a discrete-time type, in particular for cancelling offset and low-frequency noise of switched-capacitor stages
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Application No.: US12794428Application Date: 2010-06-04
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Publication No.: US08497746B2Publication Date: 2013-07-30
- Inventor: Andrea Visconti , Luciano Prandi , Carlo Caminada , Paolo Angelini
- Applicant: Andrea Visconti , Luciano Prandi , Carlo Caminada , Paolo Angelini
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Seed IP Law Group PLLC
- Priority: ITTO2009A0431 20090605
- Main IPC: H03H11/00
- IPC: H03H11/00 ; H03M3/00 ; G06G7/184

Abstract:
A band-pass filter made up by an operational amplifier and by an input circuit. The input circuit is formed by a capacitive filtering element, connected to the input of the operational amplifier; a coupling switch, coupled between an input node and the capacitive filtering element; a capacitive sampling element, coupled between the input of the filter and the input node; and a sampling switch, coupled between the input node and a reference-potential line. The coupling switch and the input sampling switch close in phase opposition according to a succession of undesired components sampling and sensing steps, so that the capacitive sampling element forms a sampler for sampling the undesired component in the undesired components sampling step, in the absence of the component of interest, and forms a subtractor of the undesired components from the input signal in the sensing step.
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