Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Parallel analog to digital converter architecture with charge redistribution and method thereof
- Patent Title (中): 并行模数转换器架构与电荷再分配及其方法
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Application No.: US13706025Application Date: 2012-12-05
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Publication No.: US08902093B1Publication Date: 2014-12-02
- Inventor: Adrian Luigi Leuciuc , William Pierce Evans
- Applicant: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
An analog to digital converting system (200) includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) circuit that is formed by a plurality of parallel ADCs (ADC 1 ADC N) for continuous sequential processing of an input analog voltage signal. Each of the ADCs is a type that employs a capacitor digital to analog converter (DAC) (209, 701) therein. The system further includes a sample and hold circuit (220) coupled to the parallel ADCs by a conductive interconnect wiring pattern (203). The sample and hold circuit includes a sampling switch (207) and a hold capacitance formed by the parallel combination of a hold capacitor (205) and the distributed parasitic capacitance (204) of the conductive interconnect wiring pattern (203). During the hold phase of the sample and hold circuit, charge is redistributed from the hold capacitance to all of the capacitors (211) of the capacitor DAC, which serve as a secondary hold capacitance.
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