Pipelined analog-to-digital converter and output calibration method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11595052B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-28

    申请号:US17623613

    申请日:2019-07-26

    IPC分类号: H03M1/06 H03M1/10

    摘要: A pipelined analog-to-digital converter and an output calibration method for the same. The pipelined analog-to-digital converter introduces an error calibration mechanism on the basis of traditional pipelined analog-to-digital converters through a control module, an equivalent gain error extraction module, an error storage module and a coding reconstruction module to compensate for gain errors and setup errors caused by operational amplifiers in a pipelined conversion module, so that the analog-to-digital conversion accuracy is improved, and requirements for the gain and bandwidth of the operational amplifier are relaxed, which can effectively reduce the power consumption of the analog-to-digital converter and the complexity of the corresponding analog circuit; a curve fitting method is adopted to obtain an ideal output sequence and then calculate errors; meanwhile, extraction and calibration of equivalent gain errors are all done in digital ways, and therefore accuracy thereof is high.

    Highly linear time amplifier with power supply rejection

    公开(公告)号:US11595004B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-28

    申请号:US17057698

    申请日:2019-05-13

    摘要: A highly linear time amplifier with power supply rejection. In a reset stage, the threshold value of an over-threshold detector is used for resetting an output node of an amplifier, to eliminate the impact of power supply voltage changes on the threshold value of the threshold detector. A node capacitor unit is charged under the control of an input clock signal. After completion of charging, the node capacitor unit is discharged under the control of a synchronous clock signal. The time amplification gain only depends on the proportion of the charge and discharge current, and the charging and discharging time are completely linear in principle, which eliminates the nonlinearity of the traditional time amplifier, and reduces the negative impact of threshold change on system performance.

    Clock drive circuit
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11502657B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-15

    申请号:US17040516

    申请日:2018-07-25

    摘要: A clock driver circuit, including: an input stage, a double-ended to single-ended conversion stage and a driver output stage connected in sequence. The input stage includes two mutually loaded differential amplifiers and a common mode negative feedback loop. The differential amplifiers are connected to a differential clock signal for amplification to generate a common mode voltage. The common mode feedback circuit is connected to an output end of the differential amplifiers to stabilize the output amplitude of the common mode voltage. The double-ended to single-ended conversion stage converts a differential sine clock signal output by the double-ended common mode voltage into a single-ended square wave clock signal. The driver output stage includes a multi-stage cascaded push-pull phase inverter to improve the drive capability of the square wave clock signal.

    VOLTAGE-TO-TIME CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR REDUCING PARASITIC CAPACITANCE AND POWER SUPPLY INFLUENCES

    公开(公告)号:US20210203344A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-01

    申请号:US17057702

    申请日:2019-05-13

    IPC分类号: H03M1/12 G01R19/165 H03M1/54

    摘要: The present disclosure provides a voltage-to-time converter and method for reducing parasitic capacitance and power supply influences. The voltage-to-time converter includes: a main sampling network, a compensation sampling network, a discharge network and an over-threshold detection unit. The influence of a traditional VTC parasitic capacitance on a VTC output swing amplitude is reduced by using the compensation sampling network. A sampling common-mode level of the compensation sampling network is compensated, such that the influence of the low-frequency disturbance of a power supply voltage on a threshold of a traditional VTC threshold detection circuit is reduced. The output swing amplitude of the voltage-to-time converter of the present disclosure can reduce the influence of a parasitic capacitance. A voltage common-mode level of a VTC input end is related to a power supply voltage, which reduces a conversion error caused by the influence of the power supply voltage on a threshold.

    HIGH-PRECISION FREQUENCY MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200011911A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-09

    申请号:US16493184

    申请日:2017-07-21

    IPC分类号: G01R23/02

    摘要: A high-precision frequency measuring system and method. The system includes: an analog-to-digital conversion module for receiving an analog intermediate frequency signal to convert the analog intermediate frequency signal into a digital intermediate frequency signal; a frequency mixing module for generating two orthogonal local carriers to convert the digital intermediate frequency signal to a digital baseband signal; an extraction filter module for performing low-pass filtering and extraction of the digital baseband signal, so as to reduce a data rate; a Fourier transform module for obtaining a frequency domain signal; a frequency measurement module for obtaining a first frequency measurement value; a scanning module for obtaining a scanned second frequency measurement value; and a selector for selecting either the first frequency measurement value or the second frequency measurement value as a result of frequency measurement. The system and method can improve the accuracy of frequency measurement.