Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Analog-to-digital converter and signal processing system
- Patent Title (中): 模数转换器和信号处理系统
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Application No.: US13435178Application Date: 2012-03-30
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Publication No.: US08487801B2Publication Date: 2013-07-16
- Inventor: Shinichirou Etou , Yasuhide Shimizu , Kouhei Kudou , Yukitoshi Yamashita
- Applicant: Shinichirou Etou , Yasuhide Shimizu , Kouhei Kudou , Yukitoshi Yamashita
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC
- Priority: JP2011-094214 20110420
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital (A/D) converter includes: a coarse A/D converter configured to convert, when converting an analog input signal into an N-bit digital signal, the analog input signal into a high-order m-bit digital signal; a fine A/D converter configured to convert the analog input signal into a low-order n-bit (where n=N−m) digital signal based on a conversion result of the coarse A/D converter; and a track-and-hold (TH) circuit configured to sample the analog input signal, to supply a comparison voltage compared with a coarse reference voltage to the coarse A/D converter, and to supply a comparison voltage compared with a fine reference voltage based on a conversion result of the fine A/D converter to the fine A/D converter. The TH circuit is configured to share a sampling capacitor in a selective input path for the analog input signal, the coarse reference voltage, and the fine reference voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120268300A1 ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2012-10-25
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