Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low power quantizer for analog to digital converter
- Patent Title (中): 用于模数转换器的低功耗量化器
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Application No.: US13773434Application Date: 2013-02-21
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Publication No.: US08836566B2Publication Date: 2014-09-16
- Inventor: Mohammad Nizam Kabir , Brandt Braswell , Rakesh Shiwale
- Applicant: Mohammad Nizam Kabir , Brandt Braswell , Rakesh Shiwale
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts LLP
- Agent Lowell W. Gresham; Charlene R. Jacobsen
- Main IPC: H03M1/34
- IPC: H03M1/34 ; H03M1/12 ; H03M99/00 ; H03M3/00

Abstract:
A quantizer includes a voltage reference network and a set of comparators coupled with the voltage reference network. The voltage reference network generates a plurality of reference voltages. Each of the comparators receives an input signal and produces a sequence of digital samples. The set of comparators includes first, second, and third subsets of comparators. Each comparator of the first subset includes a switched capacitor stage, each comparator of the second subset includes a preamplifier stage, and each comparator of the third subset includes a switched capacitor stage. The first and third subsets of comparators compares the input signal with reference voltages corresponding to the upper and lower voltage ranges of the input signal, and the second subset of comparators compares the input signal with reference voltages corresponding to the middle voltage range of the input signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140232579A1 LOW POWER QUANTIZER FOR ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2014-08-21
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