Invention Grant
- Patent Title: AD converter circuit and ad conversion method
- Patent Title (中): AD转换电路和广告转换方法
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Application No.: US13869770Application Date: 2013-04-24
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Publication No.: US08854243B2Publication Date: 2014-10-07
- Inventor: Masato Yoshioka , Yanfei Chen , Tatsuya Ide
- Applicant: Fujitsu Limited , Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
- Applicant Address: JP Kawasaki JP Yokohama
- Assignee: Fujitsu Limited,Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
- Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited,Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kawasaki JP Yokohama
- Agency: Arent Fox LLP
- Priority: JP2012-124578 20120531
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; H03M1/14 ; H03M1/38 ; H03M1/46 ; H03M1/54

Abstract:
A low-power and high-speed ADC includes: a successive approximation converter circuit configured to sequentially compare and coarsely convert the analog input signal voltage into a digital signal with a number of higher-order bits, and also to output a residual voltage; a fixed-quantity change time measurement converter circuit configured to finely convert the residual voltage into a digital signal with a number n of lower-order bits by changing the residual voltage at a fixed rate of change and by measuring the time until a predetermined value is reached; and an encoder circuit configured to generate a digital signal with the predetermined number of bits by combining the digital signal with the number of higher-order bits output from the successive approximation converter circuit and the digital signal with the number of lower-order bits output from the fixed-quantity change time measurement converter circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130321189A1 AD CONVERTER CIRCUIT AND AD CONVERSION METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-12-05
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