Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Background estimation of comparator offset of an analog-to-digital converter
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Application No.: US14793524Application Date: 2015-07-07
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Publication No.: US09602121B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty Ali , Paritosh Bhoraskar , Huseyin Dinc , Andrew Stacy Morgan
- 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: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10 ; H03M1/36

Abstract:
A pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converts an analog input signal over several stages, where a stage generates a residue for the subsequent stage to digitize. The residue is generated by coarsely quantizing the analog input signal to generate a digital code, which is used to reconstruct the analog input signal, and the residue is the difference between the analog input signal and the reconstructed version of the analog input signal. The coarse quantization can have errors which are attributed to comparator offsets and bandwidth mismatch. To estimate the comparator offsets while being insensitive to bandwidth mismatch, peak and trough detectors are used to track maximum and minimum values of the residue or the output of the ADC over time, and an expected value estimating the comparator offset can be computed based on the maximum and minimum values. The expected value advantageously “averages” out the bandwidth mismatch contribution to the offset.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170012634A1 BACKGROUND ESTIMATION OF COMPARATOR OFFSET OF AN ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2017-01-12
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