Abstract:
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a dither circuit including a dither generating circuit generating a plurality of complementary signal pairs, and a dither input circuit generating a plurality of dither signals from the plurality of complementary signal pairs to add the generated dither signals to an analog input signal, in which the plurality of complementary signal pairs have different frequencies with each other, the dither input circuit includes capacitors provided for each of the plurality of complementary signal pairs and a plurality of switch pairs including first and second switches having one terminals connected to each one terminal of the capacitors, and the other terminals of the capacitors are connected to an adding point to the analog input signal, the first switch supplies ones of the complementary signal pairs to one terminals of the capacitors when a clock signal is in effective state, and the second switch supplies the others of the complementary signal pairs to one terminals of the capacitors when an inverting clock signal of the clock signal is in effective state.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methods for improving resolution of low-noise signals in an analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion circuit. SOLUTION: A simple, low cost pseudo-noise generating circuit is disclosed that, when connected to signal conditioning circuitry of an A/D conversion circuit, adds pseudo-noise to an analog input voltage signal. Additional pseudo-noise is beneficial for improving the resolution of A/D conversion when oversampling and summing or averaging are used in post-conversion processing operations. The circuit is composed of a plurality of resistors configured in at least two parallel branches. An individually switchable voltage source output is connected to each branch. A resulting analog voltage is measured at a common termination point for the branches, depending on the combination of switchable voltage source outputs turned on, and the branch to which the voltage output is applied. By varying the combination of switchable voltage source outputs turned on over time, a known analog pseudo-noise signal is developed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methods for improving efficiency of a data converter. SOLUTION: An example method generates a noise signal, alters the spectrum of the noise signal based on operation of an associated data converter, and supplies the altered spectrum noise signal to the associated data converter. The data converter is a digital-to-analog converter or an analog-to-digital converter. The altered spectrum noise signal is notched at frequencies of interest. The spectrum is altered by sending a signal generated by a random number generator to a delay device and adding the output of the delay device from the output of the random number generator. Also, the spectrum is altered by seeding first and second identical random number generators, delaying the operation of the first random number generator, and adding the output of the delayed first random number generator from the second random number generator. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a ΔΣ AD modulator low-order to attain a low cost of a ΔΣ type AD converter and obtain a higher-precision AD converter with a small-scale analogue circuit, and besides decrease a chip area of the whole of the ΔΣ AD modulator to make circuit design easy. SOLUTION: There is provided the ΔΣ type AD converter which is equipped with the ΔΣ AD modulator 10, a multi-bit counter 20 which counts an output of the ΔΣ AD modulator 10, and a deformation filter 2 which performs the filter processing of an output of the multi-bit counter 20. The multi-bit counter 20 counts 1-bit data outputted from the ΔΣ AD modulator 10 at each given period to output the data as multi-bit data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dither circuit capable of more efficiently reducing quantization noise in a quantizing device, particularly in a multi-stage analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 16. SOLUTION: A divide-by-3 circuit 12 generates a signal having a frequency of [sampling frequency]/3, from a sampling clock for ADC, and this signal is processed by a re-timing register 18 and a filter 14 to generate a dither signal. An adder 20 combines an analog signal to be digitized with the dither signal and supplies a resultant signal to the ADC 16. A cancellation signal is generated from a digital format signal of the dither signal by blocks 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, an adder circuit 32 combines the cancellation signal with a digital output signal of the ADC, and a corrected digital output signal having reduced quantization distortion is generated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI