Invention Application
- Patent Title: ANALOGUE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER
- Patent Title (中): 模拟数字转换器
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Application No.: US14931332Application Date: 2015-11-03
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Publication No.: US20160126968A1Publication Date: 2016-05-05
- Inventor: John Paul Lesso , Emmanuel Philippe Christian Hardy
- Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Priority: GB1419651.3 20141104
- Main IPC: H03M1/06
- IPC: H03M1/06 ; H03M1/12 ; H03M1/38 ; H03M1/00

Abstract:
This application relates to analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs). An ADC 200 has a first converter (201) for receiving an analogue input signal (AIN) and outputting a time encode signal (DT), such as a pulse-width-modulated (PWM) signal, based on input signal and a first conversion gain setting (GIN). In some embodiments the first converter has a PWM modulator (401) for generating a PWM signal such that the input signal is encoded by pulse widths that can vary continuously in time. A second converter (202) receives the time encoded signal and outputs a digital output signal (DOUT) based on the time encoded signal (DT) and a second conversion gain setting (GO). The second converter may have a first PWM-to-digital modulator (403). A gain allocation block (204) generates the first and second conversion gain settings based on the time encoded signal (DT). The gain allocation block (204) may have a second PWM-to-digital modulator (203) which may be of lower latency and/or lower resolution that the first PWM-to-digital modulator (403).
Public/Granted literature
- US09425813B2 Analogue-to-digital converter Public/Granted day:2016-08-23
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