Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor integrated circuit and method of operating the same
- Patent Title (中): 半导体集成电路及其操作方法
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Application No.: US13195144Application Date: 2011-08-01
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Publication No.: US08525712B2Publication Date: 2013-09-03
- Inventor: Takashi Oshima , Tatsuji Matsuura , Naoki Yada , Takahiro Miki , Akihiro Kitagawa , Tetsuo Matsui , Kunihiko Usui
- Applicant: Takashi Oshima , Tatsuji Matsuura , Naoki Yada , Takahiro Miki , Akihiro Kitagawa , Tetsuo Matsui , Kunihiko Usui
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2010-181678 20100816
- Main IPC: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10

Abstract:
To improve resolution of a built-in A/D converter by reducing the area occupied by a chip of the built-in A/D converter in a semiconductor integrated circuit that is mounted in an on-vehicle millimeter wave radar device and which incorporates an A/D converter and an MPU. In the semiconductor integrated circuit, a plurality of reception signals of the radar device is A/D-converted by a single digital correction type A/D converter. The digital correction type A/D converter of the single A/D converter is a foreground digital correction type A/D converter that sequentially A/D-converts the reception signals output from a multiplexer of a receiving interface. The single A/D converter includes a pipeline type A/D converter having a plurality of cascade-coupled converters. The semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a correction signal generating unit, a digital correction D/A converter, and a digital correction unit for digital correction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120038498A1 SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2012-02-16
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