Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for an analog-to-digital converter with near-constant common mode voltage
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Application No.: US14939473Application Date: 2015-11-12
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Publication No.: US09780799B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Yongjian Tang , Hao Liu
- Applicant: Maxlinear, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Agency: McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; H03M1/06 ; H03M1/44

Abstract:
Methods and systems for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with constant common mode voltage may include in an ADC comprising a sampling switch on a first input line to the ADC, a sampling switch on a second input line to the ADC, N switched capacitor pairs and M single switched capacitors on the first input line, and N switched capacitor pairs and M single switched capacitors on the second input line: sampling an input voltage by closing the sampling switches, opening the sampling switches and comparing voltage levels between the input lines, iteratively switching the switched capacitor pairs between a reference voltage (Vref) and ground based on the compared voltage levels, and iteratively switching the single switched capacitors between ground and voltages that are a fraction of Vref, which may equal Vref/2x where x ranges from 0 to m−1 and m is a number of single switched capacitors per input line.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170250698A9 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH NEAR-CONSTANT COMMON MODE VOLTAGE Public/Granted day:2017-08-31
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