Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Successive approximation analog-to-digital converter and conversion method
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Application No.: US14876695Application Date: 2015-10-06
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Publication No.: US09407277B2Publication Date: 2016-08-02
- Inventor: Shih-Hsiung Huang
- Applicant: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: WPAT, P.C., Intellectual Property Attorneys
- Agent Anthony King
- Priority: TW103137962A 20141103
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00 ; G04F10/00 ; H03M1/38 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
The present invention discloses a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter capable of improving the accuracy of analog-to-digital conversion. An embodiment of this converter comprises: a successive approximation analog-to-digital converting circuit operable to generate M bits according to an analog input signal in which the M bits include a most significant bit (MSB) and successive M−1 bit(s) in succession to the MSB while the number M is an integer greater than one; and a multi-bit generating circuit operable to receive a capacitor array output signal and a comparison signal outputted from the successive approximation analog-to-digital converting circuit for a predetermined time after the generation of the M bits, and then generate N bits at a time accordingly in which the N bits include a least significant bit (LSB) and successive N−1 bit(s) ahead of the LSB while the number N is an integer greater than one.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160126966A1 Successive approximation analog-to-digital converter and conversion method Public/Granted day:2016-05-05
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