摘要:
Link capacitors are used to establish connection between joining-points of coupling capacitors and inverters in an inverter chopper comparator array, in order to reduce injected electric charge variation due to feedthrough. Some of the comparators in the comparator array, arranged at each end thereof, constitute a redundant comparator array without connection to a logic circuit that is used to obtain an A/D conversion output. This reduces the effects of the device parameter variations in the comparator array, whereby a high accuracy voltage comparison is achieved, and noise-resistant strength is improved.
摘要:
An auto-calibrated reference resistor ladder network (140) is disclosed which is suitable for use in a precision ADC (110). Resistors in the ladder are connected to an auto-calibration circuit which continually measures the potential developed across each of the connected resistors and adjusts the resistance of the resistor to match the measured potential to a reference potential. The reference potential is the potential developed across a defined one of the resistors.
摘要:
A pulse detecting system 1 has a high speed A/D converter 10 and a slew controlled pulse detector 110. The A/D converter 10 has large hysteresis for holding the converted digital value of an input signal V PULSE until the A/D converter 10 is reset. The slew controlled pulse detector 110 limits the slew rate of large amplitude pulse to correct arrival errors and provide an output signa V AT that more accurately represents the arrival time of the input pulse signal, V PULSE .