LOW VIN HIGH EFFICIENCY CHARGEPUMP
    101.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190356221A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-21

    申请号:US15980342

    申请日:2018-05-15

    Abstract: A charge pump circuit comprises a first charge transfer circuit path coupled including a first boost capacitor coupled to a first clock input, a first charge switch coupled to a circuit input, and a first discharge switch coupled to a circuit output; a second charge transfer circuit path including a second boost capacitor coupled to a second clock input, a second charge switch coupled to the circuit input, and a second discharge switch coupled to the circuit output; a first charge control circuit including a first gate switch coupled to a gate input of the first charge switch, and a first gate-drive capacitor coupled to the gate input of the second charge switch; and a second charge control circuit including a second gate switch coupled to a gate input of the second charge switch, and a second gate-drive capacitor coupled to the gate input of the first charge switch.

    TURN COUNT DECODING FOR MULTI-TURN SENSORS
    103.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190293455A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-26

    申请号:US15936223

    申请日:2018-03-26

    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to decoding the output of a multi-turn magnetic sensor using a successive approximation technique to detect a number of turns of a magnetic target. A decoder circuit can decode a turn count of the multi-turn magnetic sensor by obtaining measurements at nodes that are determined from values of previous measurements.

    METHOD OF APPLYING A DITHER, AND ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER OPERATING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20190280706A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-12

    申请号:US16052890

    申请日:2018-08-02

    Abstract: A dither is an uncorrelated signal, usually pseudo-random noise injected into the input of an ADC such that a given input value of the wanted signal becomes spread over a plurality of codes. This reduces the effect of DNL and also smooths the integral non-linearity (INL) response of the ADC. The advantages of introducing dither could be obtained without having to perturb the signal input to the ADC. This avoids the introduction of additional components in the ADC. The dither can be applied to the components used to form a residue of the ADC stage within a pipelined converter. For example, a dither can be applied solely to a DAC part or different dithers can be applied to a ADC and DAC parts respectively. This allows greater flexibility of linearization of the ADC response and the formation of an analog residue by the DAC.

    Retaining Cap
    108.
    发明申请
    Retaining Cap 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20190242847A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-08

    申请号:US15888863

    申请日:2018-02-05

    CPC classification number: G01N27/403 G01N27/28 G01N27/4045

    Abstract: A cap for use with devices, such as sensors. The cap includes protrusions on its underside, to restrict the movement of a liquid or a gel placed under cap. The protrusions may take the form of walls or pillars, depending on the application. As such, the cap retains the liquid or gel in a specified position on the device. For example, an electrochemical sensor may require a liquid electrolyte to remain in place over one or more electrodes. The protrusions may not extend far enough to touch the device, but rather leave a small gap. However, because of the surface tension of the liquid, the liquid generally stays within the protrusions.

    Reservoir capacitor based analog-to-digital converter

    公开(公告)号:US10348319B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-09

    申请号:US15983658

    申请日:2018-05-18

    Abstract: Techniques to use reservoir capacitors in ADC to supply most of the charge to bit-trial capacitors as bit-trials are performed. An accurate reference voltage source, e.g., a reference buffer circuit, only needs to supply the difference, e.g., an inaccuracy, in the charge supplied by the reservoir capacitors. Instead of having to resettle for each bit-trial, the accurate reference voltage source has only to deliver the initial charge to the reservoir capacitors during acquisition and once more when the ADC is ready to sample onto the residue amplifier. These techniques can ease the demands on the reference buffer circuit and requirement of external decoupling capacitors, for example.

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