Invention Application
- 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.: US20220255554A1Publication Date: 2022-08-11
- Inventor: Qiuyang LIN , Nick VAN HELLEPUTTE , Roland VAN WEGBERG , Shuang SONG
- Applicant: IMEC VZW , KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN , Stichting IMEC Nederland
- Applicant Address: BE Leuven; BE Leuven; NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: IMEC VZW,KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN,Stichting IMEC Nederland
- Current Assignee: IMEC VZW,KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN,Stichting IMEC Nederland
- Current Assignee Address: BE Leuven; BE Leuven; NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP21155525.5 20210205
- 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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