Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital error correction in an analog-to-digital converter
- Patent Title (中): 模拟数字转换器中的数字纠错
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Application No.: US13282262Application Date: 2011-10-26
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Publication No.: US08547257B2Publication Date: 2013-10-01
- Inventor: John Earle Miller , Robert Floyd Payne
- Applicant: John Earle Miller , Robert Floyd Payne
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Alan A. R. Cooper; W. James Brady, III; Frederick J. Telecky, Jr.
- Main IPC: H03M1/06
- IPC: H03M1/06

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) function in which digital error correction is provided. Parallel ADC stages are synchronously clocked to convert an analog input signal into digital words; at least one of the digital outputs is encoded according to an error correction code. Decision logic circuitry decodes a code word comprised of the concatenation of the digital outputs from the parallel stages, to derive a digital output from which the digital output word corresponding to the analog input signal can be derived. The decision logic circuitry can provide an error signal used to correct the state of one or more bits of the digital output from one of the ADC stages, for the case of a systematic code; alternatively, the decision logic circuitry can directly decode the code word to provide the digital output. The architecture may be applied to stages in a pipelined ADC.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130106628A1 Digital Error Correction in an Analog-to-Digital Converter Public/Granted day:2013-05-02
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