Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Analog accumulator
- Patent Title (中): 模拟累加器
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Application No.: US13853870Application Date: 2013-03-29
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Publication No.: US09235300B2Publication Date: 2016-01-12
- Inventor: Paolo Angelini , Yannick Guedon , Ming Zi Zhu
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. , STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: SG Singapore IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd,STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd,STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: SG Singapore IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Agency: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
- Main IPC: G06G7/00
- IPC: G06G7/00 ; G06F3/044 ; G03G7/00 ; G06F3/041

Abstract:
Accumulators that operate to fully or partially remove noise from a signal, including removing noise inserted into the signal by the accumulator itself. In some embodiments, an accumulator may be operated in a sampling phase and a transfer phase each time the accumulator samples an input signal. In some such embodiments, an op-amp of an accumulation circuit of the accumulator may be auto-zeroed during some or all of the sampling phases of an accumulation period. In some embodiments in which the op-amp is auto-zeroed during some or all of the sampling phases, the accumulation circuit may include a holding capacitor that, during an auto-zeroing process, holds a value output by the op-amp during a prior transfer phase. Including such a holding capacitor in an accumulator may reduce a voltage that the op-amp output rises following the auto-zero process, which may reduce a bandwidth and noise of the accumulation circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140292375A1 ANALOG ACCUMULATOR Public/Granted day:2014-10-02
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