Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Current digital-to-analog converter with warming of digital-to-analog converter elements
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Application No.: US16942062Application Date: 2020-07-29
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Publication No.: US11043959B1Publication Date: 2021-06-22
- Inventor: John L. Melanson , Johann G. Gaboriau , Lei Zhu , Wai-Shun Shum , Xiaofan Fei , Leyi Yin
- Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Applicant Address: GB Edinburgh
- Assignee: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: GB Edinburgh
- Agency: Jackson Walker L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H03M1/74
- IPC: H03M1/74 ; H04R3/00 ; H03M3/00

Abstract:
A differential output current digital-to-analog (IDAC) circuit may include a delta-sigma modulator configured to receive a digital input signal, a control circuit responsive to the delta-sigma modulator configured to perform a DAC decode operation, a plurality of DAC elements responsive to the DAC decode operation, the plurality of DAC elements configured to, in concert, generate a differential output current signal based on the digital input signal to a load coupled to a pair of output terminals of the IDAC, and a plurality of warming switches, each warming switch coupled to a respective bias transistor of a respective DAC element of the plurality of DAC elements, wherein the control circuit may further be configured to selectively control each such warming switch in order to selectively de-bias and bias a respective bias transistor of such warming switch when a respective DAC element of the respective bias transistor is output-disabled from generating the differential output current signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210175894A1 CURRENT DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER WITH WARMING OF DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER ELEMENTS Public/Granted day:2021-06-10
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