Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Track and hold amplifiers and digital calibration for analog-to-digital converters
- Patent Title (中): 跟踪和保持放大器和模数转换器的数字校准
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Application No.: US13010285Application Date: 2011-01-20
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Publication No.: US08350738B2Publication Date: 2013-01-08
- Inventor: Mihai Adrian Tiberiu Sanduleanu , Jean-Olivier Plouchart , Zeynep Toprak Deniz
- Applicant: Mihai Adrian Tiberiu Sanduleanu , Jean-Olivier Plouchart , Zeynep Toprak Deniz
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP
- Agent Anne V. Dougherty
- Main IPC: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10

Abstract:
An exemplary differential track and hold amplifier includes a track stage including first and second linearized pairs connected in series at their respective inputs and in parallel at their respective outputs. The differential track and hold amplifier also includes a hold stage selectively coupled to the outputs of the first and second linearized pairs. The hold stage includes a unity gain buffer with feedback having a hold capacitor interconnected across its outputs. The differential track and hold amplifier also includes an output buffer coupled to the outputs of the hold stage. An exemplary analog-to-digital converter includes a differential track-and-hold amplifier, a voltage ladder, and a plurality of slices. Each of the slices in turn includes a differential preamplifier coupled to the track-and-hold amplifier and to a corresponding location on the voltage ladder; a current mode logic latch comparator coupled to the differential preamplifier; a large-swing latch coupled to the current mode logic latch comparator; a complementary metal oxide semiconductor latch having a dummy load; a calibration digital to analog converter connected across outputs of the differential preamplifier to inject calibration currents; and a register coupled to the calibration digital to analog converter and storing calibration values for use thereby. The analog-to-digital converter also includes a multiplexer which multiplexes outputs of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor latches down to a predetermined number of outputs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120188109A1 Track and Hold Amplifiers and Digital Calibration for Analog-to-Digital Converters Public/Granted day:2012-07-26
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