Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low-power sigma-delta converter
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Application No.: US13240227Application Date: 2011-09-22
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Publication No.: US08547266B2Publication Date: 2013-10-01
- Inventor: Jesus Alejandro Guinea Trigo , Andrea Baschirotto
- Applicant: Jesus Alejandro Guinea Trigo , Andrea Baschirotto
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.R.L.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.R.L.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Agency: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.
- Priority: ITVA2010A0071 20100927
- Main IPC: H03M3/02
- IPC: H03M3/02

Abstract:
A sigma-delta converter may include an input node, a switched capacitor input stage integrating a difference signal between an input signal from the input node and a feedback signal representing an output signal, and a switched capacitor adder coupled downstream from the switched capacitor input stage and generating a sum signal based upon the input signal with a signal generated by the switched capacitor input stage. The sigma-delta converter may include a switched capacitor output stage amplifying the sum signal and generating an analog amplified signal, a quantization stage coupled in cascade to the switched capacitor output stage and generating the output signal as a digital replica of the analog amplified signal, and a circuit generating the feedback signal as an analog replica of the output signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120075133A1 LOW-POWER SIGMA-DELTA CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2012-03-29
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