Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Self-calibrated digital-to-analog converter
- Patent Title (中): 自校准数模转换器
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Application No.: US14751456Application Date: 2015-06-26
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Publication No.: US09379728B1Publication Date: 2016-06-28
- Inventor: Pratap Narayan Singh , Shiva Sharath Babu Kaleru , Ankur Bal , Mohit Singh , Rakesh Malik
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Amsterdam
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Amsterdam
- Agency: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10 ; H03M1/74

Abstract:
A digital-to-analog converter has an output. An analog-to-digital converter senses a voltage at the output of the digital-to-analog converter and generates a digital voltage signal. A source mismatch estimator processes the digital voltage signal to output an error signal indicative of current source mismatch within the digital-to-analog converter. An error code generator generates a digital calibration signal from the error signal. The digital calibration signal is converted by a redundancy digital-to-analog converter to an analog compensation signal for application to the output of analog-to-digital converter to nullify effects of the current source mismatch.
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