Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Track and hold architecture with tunable bandwidth
- Patent Title (中): 跟踪和保持具有可调带宽的架构
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Application No.: US13551950Application Date: 2012-07-18
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Publication No.: US09013339B2Publication Date: 2015-04-21
- Inventor: Robert F. Payne , Marco Corsi
- Applicant: Robert F. Payne , Marco Corsi
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Alan A. R. Cooper; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00 ; H03M1/08 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
To date, bandwidth mismatch within time-interleaved (TI) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) has been largely ignored because compensation for bandwidth mismatch is performed by digital post-processing, namely finite impulse response filters. However, the lag from digital post-processing is prohibitive in high speed systems, indicating a need for blind mismatch compensation. Even with blind bandwidth mismatch estimation, though, adjustment of the filter characteristics of track-and-hold (T/H) circuits within the TI ADCs can be difficult. Here, a T/H circuit architecture is provided that uses variations of the gate voltage of a sampling switch (which varies the “on” resistance of the sampling switch) to change the bandwidth of the T/H circuits so as to precisely match the bandwidths.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130015990A1 TRACK AND HOLD ARCHITECTURE WITH TUNABLE BANDWIDTH Public/Granted day:2013-01-17
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