摘要:
A calibration circuit for calibrating an adjustable capacitance of a circuit having a time constant depending on the adjustable capacitance, the calibration circuit generating a calibration signal for calibrating the capacitance and including a calibration loop, suitable to carry out a calibration cycle in several sequential steps. The calibration circuit includes a controllable capacitance for receiving a control signal and including an array of switched capacitors selectively activated by the control signal to connect to a first common node that conducts a voltage value depending on the total capacitance value of the activated capacitors; an assessment unit for comparing this voltage value with a reference voltage to output a logic signal that can transition between first and second logic levels; a control and timing unit to receive the logic signal and change the control signal to carry out a subsequent calibration step that is provided at the end of the integration interval during a comparison interval of a preset duration, which allows a transition of the logic signal to occur prior to the beginning of the consecutive calibration step.
摘要:
A voltage multiplier includes a first charge transfer capacitor designed to take and transfer electrical charges from the input terminal to the output terminal, a second capacitor for charge storage connected between the output terminal and ground and an output voltage stabilization circuit. The output voltage stabilization circuit includes an integrator designed to generate a continuous voltage corresponding to the difference between a reference voltage and the output voltage of the voltage multiplier. The continuous voltage is applied to one terminal of said charge transfer capacitor so that the potential at the other terminal of the capacitor changes proportionally to the output voltage of the voltage multiplier.
摘要:
The circuit includes a filter to which an analog signal is applied, a quantizer driven by the filter, a sampler at a desired frequency driven by the quantizer and a PCM encoder driven by the sampler. The quantizer generates a quantize signal according to the received analog signal and further generates a difference signal according to the difference between a quantized signal and the analog signal. A feedback circuit feeds back the difference signal from the quantizer to a stage of the filter so that the overall transfer function from the input of the feedback circuit to the output of the filter is equivalent to a low pass filtering.
摘要:
A high resolution, fully differential, CMOS comparator advantageously employs a single high-gain, "folded cascode", fully differential operational amplifier and an output latch circuit and the output common mode control of the high-gain amplifier is implemented without requiring the use of a conventional control circuit, thus improving layout economy. The common mode control is performed by providing the latch with a differential input stage through which a common mode feedback network is realized which acts upon a pair of output transistors of the operational amplifier for effectively controlling the output common mode thereof. The comparator has a simplified layout and is remarkably faster because it has no additional capacitances loading the outputs of the amplifier.
摘要:
The TTL-compatible cell comprising two cascade coupled CMOS inverters is associated with an input pin of the integrated circuit to make it suitable to receive signals in TTL logic, as well as with a power-down pin, and is characterized in that said input (10) of the CMOS integrated circuit is connected to the input of the first of said two inverters (12, 14) through a first and a second respectively P-channel and N-channel MOS transistor in parallel (28, 30), the first controlled by the power-down pin (31), the second by an inverter (32) driven by said power-down pin, so as to be both off when the power-down signal is at logical 1 and active when the power-down signal is at logical 0. Between the input of the first inverter and the ground a further MOS transistor (34) is connected the gate whereof is controlled so that said further MOS transistor is active when the power-down signal is at logical 1 and is off when the power-down signal is at logical 0.
摘要:
In a buffer with an operational amplifier having two inputs and two outputs and two feedback capacitances are inserted two other capacitances which in the measurement stage are switched in parallel to the feedback ones with opposite sign in such a manner as to cancel out the effects on the output voltage signal.
摘要:
A current steering digital-analog converter for converting a digital code into an analog signal, the converter including a substrate of semiconductor material, an array of current generators integrated in the substrate, a common summation node and switches controllable on the basis of the digital code for connecting and disconnecting the current generators to and from the common summation node. The current generators are adapted to provide the common summation node with currents having a multiple value according to a power of two compared to a unit current value provided to the summation node by a current generator of the array of generators. The current generator is divided into a base number of modular current generation elements in parallel to one another at least equal to two.
摘要:
A time delay logic comprises a first stage with an inverter, a capacitor connected to the input terminal of the inverter, a constant current generator and an electronic switch controlled by an input pulse. The capacitor begins to charge at a predetermined edge of the input pulse and brings the input terminal of the inverter from a first voltage (ground) to the switching threshold voltage of the inverter, so that on the output terminal of the inverter there is obtained a pulse having an edge that, as referred to the predetermined edge of the input pulse, has a delay time that depends on the inverter threshold. The circuit comprises a second stage, coupled with the first, that is a dual circuit of the circuit of the first stage and has an inverter equal to the one of the first stage.
摘要:
An A/D converter having capacitors of a first array of sampling capacitors weighted in binary code connected between a first common circuit node and an input terminal to be charged to an input voltage with respect to a ground of a signal to be converted, and in accordance with SAR technique are then selectively connected with two differential reference terminals, and at the same time capacitors of a second array equal to the first and all connected to a second node are selectively connected to ground and the lower differential voltage terminal. The two nodes are connected to the respective inputs of a comparator. A logic unit controls the connections of the capacitors of the two arrays in accordance with a predetermined timing program and as a function of the output of the comparator.
摘要:
A cell library for the design of integrated circuits, for example using CMOS technology, includes cells which define circuit modules in rectangular areas having an identical side. Two traces are provided which extend at right-angles to the identical side and which define strips for connection to the supply, at least one of which is in contact with the source regions of MOS transistors of a CMOS pair. In order to permit the design of integrated circuits in which the analog parts are insensitive to the noise induced in the substrate by the digital parts and in which it is possible to reduce the current absorption of the digital parts in stand-by mode, the cell library also provides a group of cells in which there is provided at least one additional trace which defines an additional strip for connection to the outside and which is in contact with the body regions of the MOS transistors of the CMOS pair.