Invention Application
- Patent Title: ADAPTIVE DIGITAL QUANTIZATION NOISE CANCELLATION FILTERS FOR MASH ADCS
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Application No.: US15365867Application Date: 2016-11-30
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Publication No.: US20170179969A1Publication Date: 2017-06-22
- Inventor: Qingdong Meng , Hajime Shibata , Richard E. Schreier , Martin Steven McCormick , Yunzhi Dong , Jose Barreiro Silva , Jialin Zhao , Donald W. Paterson , Wenhua W. Yang
- Applicant: ANALOG DEVICES GLOBAL
- Applicant Address: BM Hamilton
- Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES GLOBAL
- Current Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES GLOBAL
- Current Assignee Address: BM Hamilton
- Main IPC: H03M1/08
- IPC: H03M1/08 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
For continuous-time multi-stage noise shaping analog-to-digital converters (CT MASH ADCs), quantization noise cancellation often requires accurate estimation of transfer functions, e.g., a noise transfer function of the front end modulator and a signal transfer function of the back end modulator. To provide quantization noise cancellation, digital quantization noise cancellation filters adaptively tracks transfer function variations due to integrator gain errors, flash-to-DAC timing errors, as well as the inter-stage gain and timing errors. Tracking the transfer functions is performed through the direct cross-correlation between the injected maximum length linear feedback shift registers (LFSR) sequence and modulator outputs and then corrects these non-ideal effects by accurately modeling the transfer functions with programmable finite impulse response (PFIR) filters.
Public/Granted literature
- US09768793B2 Adaptive digital quantization noise cancellation filters for mash ADCs Public/Granted day:2017-09-19
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