TESTING OF ON-CHIP ANALOG-MIXED SIGNAL CIRCUITS USING ON-CHIP MEMORY

    公开(公告)号:EP4307566A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-17

    申请号:EP23182333.7

    申请日:2023-06-29

    Applicant: NXP USA, Inc.

    Abstract: Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) of an integrated circuit includes a first set of ADCs and second set of ADCs in which the ADCs of the first set are of a different type than the ADCs of the second set. On-chip testing of the ADCs includes calibrating an N-bit differential digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and storing a pair of calibration codes for each of 2 N possible DAC input codes for the DAC in an on-chip memory. The first set of ADCs is tested using the pairs of calibration codes stored in the on-chip memory and a full N-bit resolution of the DAC. Subsequently, the second set of ADCs is tested using pairs of calibration codes corresponding to a reduced M-bit resolution of the DAC, in which M is less than N. During the testing of the second set of ADCs, a portion of the calibration codes stored in the on-chip memory is overwritten.

    TIMING CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE FOR RADIO FREQUENCY DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER

    公开(公告)号:EP4213393A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-19

    申请号:EP23151811.9

    申请日:2023-01-16

    Applicant: NXP B.V.

    Abstract: A calibration system comprises an actuator circuit comprising a first delay circuit that receives a plurality of data pulses and a second delay circuit that receives the pulses, wherein one of the first and second delay circuits delays the data pulses independently of the other of the first and second delay circuits; a data switch that receives an output of the actuator circuit including delay data signals of the data pulses from the first and second delay circuits and switches and outputs a plurality of local oscillator (LO) signals for output as a controlled LO signal according to control signals of the delay data signals and applied to the data switch. At least one calibration switch receives the output of the actuator circuit and the plurality of LO+ and LO- signals, and outputs a second controlled LO signal output to a sense circuit.

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