Invention Application
- Patent Title: SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER
- Patent Title (中): 对数字转换器的仿真近似模拟
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Application No.: US13240806Application Date: 2011-09-22
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Publication No.: US20130076554A1Publication Date: 2013-03-28
- Inventor: YUAN-KAI CHU , Jin-Fu LIN
- Applicant: YUAN-KAI CHU , Jin-Fu LIN
- Applicant Address: TW Tainan City
- Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
- Current Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: TW Tainan City
- Main IPC: H03M1/38
- IPC: H03M1/38 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
A SAR ADC, used for converting an analog input into an N-bit digital output in a conversion phase, includes: three comparators, each two capacitor sub-arrays, coupled to the three comparators respectively, wherein the two capacitor sub-arrays are used for sampling the analog input and providing two inputs for the corresponding comparator; and an SAR logic, coupled to the three comparators and the three capacitor arrays, for, in each conversion sub-phase, coupling two selected capacitors of each capacitor sub-array to a set of determined reference levels, coupling two capacitors, which were selected in a preceding conversion sub-phase, of each capacitor sub-array to a set of adjusted reference levels obtained based on a set of data outputted from the three comparators in a preceding conversion sub-phase, and then generating two bits of the N-bit digital output by encoding a set of data outputted from the three comparators.
Public/Granted literature
- US08493260B2 Successive approximation analog to digital converter Public/Granted day:2013-07-23
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