Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shared circuit configurations for bootstrapped sample and hold circuits in a time-interleaved analog to digital converter
- Patent Title (中): 在时间交织的模数转换器中自举采样和保持电路的共享电路配置
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Application No.: US14838012Application Date: 2015-08-27
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Publication No.: US09401727B1Publication Date: 2016-07-26
- Inventor: Daniele Mastantuono , Mattias Palm , Roland Strandberg
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Coats & Bennett, PLLC
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12 ; G11C27/02 ; H03K17/06 ; H03M1/00 ; H03M1/08

Abstract:
In a time-interleaved Analog to Digital Converter, circuit components and capacitances may be shared among a plurality of sample and hold circuits in each of two sets. The two shared circuits alternate, on different half-periods of a master clock signal, between charging a capacitance and sampling an input in an overlapping manner such that one is charging while the other is sampling. One sample and hold circuit is activated during each successive half-period (following a charging half-period) by independent, sequential, non-overlapping clocking signals. To improve SNDR, at least one switch is bootstrapped by driving its gate terminal with the voltage of a capacitor configured between the gate and the input signal. By sharing at least some components among multiple sample and hold circuits, the number of gates driven by clock signals is reduced, reducing clock distribution and calibration complexity, and the circuit area is reduced.
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