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- Patent Title: Chopped triangular wave PWM quantizer
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Application No.: US16163638Application Date: 2018-10-18
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Publication No.: US10659029B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Ramin Zanbaghi , Anuradha Parsi , Kyehyung Lee , John L. Melanson
- Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: CIRRUS LOGIC, INC.
- Current Assignee: CIRRUS LOGIC, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agent E. Alan Davis; James W. Huffman
- Main IPC: H03K7/08
- IPC: H03K7/08 ; H03K4/06 ; H03K4/56 ; H03F3/217

Abstract:
An apparatus in a PWM modulator includes a triangular wave generator that generates a triangular wave and a comparator that is responsive to a signal input to generate a signal output. An output of the PWM modulator is responsive to the comparator signal output. A polarity inversion circuit, coupled between the triangular wave generator and the comparator, is configured in one of the following ways: to provide the triangular wave to the comparator when the triangular wave has a first slope polarity and to provide a polarity-inverted version of the triangular wave to the comparator when the triangular wave has a second slope polarity opposite the first slope polarity; and to provide the signal input to the comparator when the triangular wave has the first slope polarity and to provide a polarity-inverted version of the signal input to the comparator when the triangular wave has the second slope polarity.
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