Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Charge sharing analog computation circuitry and applications
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Application No.: US14043009Application Date: 2013-10-01
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Publication No.: US09312831B2Publication Date: 2016-04-12
- Inventor: Eric Nestler , Vladimir Zlatkovic , Jeffrey Venuti
- Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Norwood
- Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Norwood
- Agency: Patent Capital Group
- Main IPC: H03B1/00
- IPC: H03B1/00 ; H03K5/00 ; H04B1/10 ; H03H7/01 ; H03H15/02 ; H03H15/00 ; H03M1/12 ; G06F17/50 ; G10K15/00 ; H02M1/14 ; H04R25/00

Abstract:
In one aspect, reduced power consumption and/or circuit area of a discrete time analog signal processing module is achieved in an approach that makes use of entirely, or largely, passive charge sharing circuitry, which may include configurable (e.g., after fabrication, at runtime) multiplicative scaling stages that do not require active devices in the signal path. In some examples, multiplicative coefficients are represented digitally, and are transformed to configure the reconfigurable circuitry to achieve a linear relationship between a desired coefficient and a degree of charge transfer. In some examples, multiple successive charge sharing phases are used to achieve a desired multiplicative effect that provides a large dynamic range of coefficients without requiring a commensurate range of sizes of capacitive elements. The scaling circuits can be combined to form configurable time domain or frequency domain filters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140233773A1 CHARGE SHARING ANALOG COMPUTATION CIRCUITRY AND APPLICATIONS Public/Granted day:2014-08-21
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