Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Comparator tracking control scheme with dynamic window length
- Patent Title (中): 具有动态窗口长度的比较器跟踪控制方案
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Application No.: US14255912Application Date: 2014-04-17
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Publication No.: US09214948B2Publication Date: 2015-12-15
- Inventor: Ku He , Xin Zhao , Xiaofan Fei
- Applicant: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: CIRRUS LOGIC, INC.
- Current Assignee: CIRRUS LOGIC, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; H03M1/00 ; H03M1/36

Abstract:
A comparator tracking scheme for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) may implement a dynamic window size by varying, over time, a number of comparators powered up to convert an analog input signal to a digital output signal. A comparator-tracking scheme may be implemented, for example, in a controller coupled to a plurality of comparators in an ADC. For example, the controller may determine a window size for the ADC and determine a window position for the ADC. The controller may then activate comparators of the ADC within a window centered at the window position and having a width of the window size. The controller may determine a window size by analyzing an output of a filter. When the filter output indicates a rapidly changing analog input signal, the controller may dynamically increase a window size of the ADC, which may increase a number of comparators powered on.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150303932A1 COMPARATOR TRACKING CONTROL SCHEME WITH DYNAMIC WINDOW LENGTH Public/Granted day:2015-10-22
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