- Patent Title: Analog-to-digital converter circuitry, an integrated circuit device, a photoplethysmogram detector, a wearable device and a method for analog-to-digital conversion
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Application No.: US17590211Application Date: 2022-02-01
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Publication No.: US11689209B2Publication Date: 2023-06-27
- Inventor: Qiuyang Lin , Nick Van Helleputte , Roland Van Wegberg , Shuang Song
- Applicant: IMEC VZW , KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN , Stichting IMEC Nederland
- Applicant Address: BE Leuven
- Assignee: KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN,IMEC VZW,STICHTING IMEC NEDERLAND
- Current Assignee: KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN,IMEC VZW,STICHTING IMEC NEDERLAND
- Current Assignee Address: BE Leuven; BE Leuven; NL Eindhoven
- Agency: Moser Taboada
- Priority: EP 155525 2021.02.05
- Main IPC: H03M1/06
- IPC: H03M1/06

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter, ADC, circuitry, comprises: an integrator connected to a capacitor, the integrator being configured to switch between integrating an analog input signal for ramping an integrator output and integrating a reference input signal for returning integrator output towards a threshold; a comparator for comparing integrator output to the threshold; and a timer for determining a time duration during which the reference input signal is integrated, the time duration providing a digital representation of an analog input signal value; the ADC circuitry further comprising a feedforward noise shaping loop configured to store a quantization error signal based on digitizing a first sample, the comparator being configured to receive a feedforward noise shaping signal for changing the threshold for digitizing a later sample of the analog input signal following the first sample.
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