Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capacitor order determination in an analog-to-digital converter
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Application No.: US15483046Application Date: 2017-04-10
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Publication No.: US10298250B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Thomas Fuchs , Rudiger Kuhn , Bernhard Wolfgang Ruck
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Ebby Abraham; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10 ; H03M1/46 ; H03M5/00 ; H03M7/16

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that has a configurable capacitor array. Based on measurements of differential nonlinearity (DNL) and/or integral nonlinearity (INL) error by an external test computer system, an order for use of the DAC's capacitors can be determined so as to reduce DNL error aggregation, also called INL. The DAC includes a switch matrix that can be programmed by programming data supplied by the test computer system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170250699A1 Capacitor Order Determination in An Analog-to-Digital Converter Public/Granted day:2017-08-31
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