Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reducing metastability in analog to digital conversion
- Patent Title (中): 降低模数转换中的亚稳态
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Application No.: US13251507Application Date: 2011-10-03
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Publication No.: US08736479B2Publication Date: 2014-05-27
- Inventor: John Patrick Keane
- Applicant: John Patrick Keane
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12

Abstract:
A system for performing analog-to-digital conversion comprises a sampling unit that generates multiple digital samples from an analog input signal at each recurrence of a periodic interval, and a processing unit that combines the digital samples to produce a digital output signal. In certain embodiments, the sampling unit comprises multiple analog-to-digital converters arranged in parallel, and the processing unit comprises a digital signal processor that detects outliers in the digital samples and averages any non-outliers among the digital samples to generate the digital output signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130082854A1 REDUCING METASTABILITY IN ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION Public/Granted day:2013-04-04
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