Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flash analog-to-digital converter calibration
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Application No.: US15369175Application Date: 2016-12-05
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Publication No.: US09912342B2Publication Date: 2018-03-06
- Inventor: Zhao Li , Hajime Shibata , Trevor Clifford Caldwell , Yunzhi Dong , Jialin Zhao , Richard E. Schreier , Victor Kozlov , David Nelson Alldred , Prawal Man Shrestha
- Applicant: Analog Devices Global
- Applicant Address: BM Hamilton
- Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES GLOBAL
- Current Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES GLOBAL
- Current Assignee Address: BM Hamilton
- Agency: Patent Capital Group
- Main IPC: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10 ; H03M1/34 ; H03M1/12 ; H03M1/06 ; H03M3/00

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is a device that can include a reference shuffler and a loop filter. An ADC can achieve better performance with incremental adjustment of a pointer of the reference shuffler, changing coefficients of the loop filter, and storing calibration codes of the ADC in a non-volatile memory. By incrementally adjusting a pointer of the reference shuffler, a calibration can be performed more efficiently than with a random adjustment of the pointer. By temporarily changing the loop filter coefficients, a greater amount of activity can be introduced into the loop filter. This activity can allow the calibration to proceed more efficiently. By storing the calibration codes in a non-volatile memory, a search space for calibration codes can be reduced. Thus, a calibration can occur more quickly, and the calibration itself can be improved.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170179970A1 FLASH ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER CALIBRATION Public/Granted day:2017-06-22
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