INTERFACE CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230216502A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-06

    申请号:US17925323

    申请日:2021-01-06

    IPC分类号: H03K19/0185

    CPC分类号: H03K19/018521

    摘要: An interface circuit and an electronic apparatus, including: a programmable current array (1), generating a first current and a second current transmitted to a common mode and differential mode generation circuit (2) according to an input code, and a third current and a fourth current transmitted to a driving bias generation circuit (3) according to the input code; the common mode and differential mode generation circuit (2), generating a common mode voltage according to the first current, and generating a high level voltage and a low level voltage according to the second current and the common mode voltage; a driving bias generation circuit (3), simulating a load according to the third and fourth currents, and generating a bias voltage based on the load and the low and high level voltages; an output driving circuit (4), converting an input signal into a differential signal in which the common mode voltage and a differential mode amplitude are configurable.

    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.

    HIGHLY LINEAR TIME AMPLIFIER WITH POWER SUPPLY REJECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20210203277A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-01

    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.

    Pipelined Analog-To-Digital Converter Having Input Signal Pre-Comparison and Charge Redistribution

    公开(公告)号:US20210126646A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-29

    申请号:US16497806

    申请日:2017-09-11

    IPC分类号: H03M1/46

    摘要: The present disclosure provides a pipelined analog-to-digital converter having input signal pre-comparison and charge redistribution, including: one-stage or multi-stage of pipelined structure unit, a first flash analog-to-digital converter, and an adjusting output unit. Each stage of the pipelined structure unit is used to quantify the input signal. The first flash analog-to-digital converter quantizes a residual signal output by a final pipelined structure unit, and outputs a corresponding quantized value. The adjusting output unit combines each of the quantized values according to a connection order of the multi-stage pipelined structure unit and a flash analog-to-digital conversion unit to output a complete quantization result. By using the pre-comparison and charge redistribution technologies, the number of comparators of different stages of pipelined sub ADC is reduced and the low power consumption design is achieved, signal sample-and-hold and residual signal amplification establishing are simultaneously carried out, thus improving the conversion rate.

    PIPELINED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND OUTPUT CALIBRATION METHOD THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20220321136A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17623613

    申请日:2019-07-26

    IPC分类号: 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.

    BUFFER CIRCUIT AND BUFFER
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210281269A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-09

    申请号:US17258165

    申请日:2018-12-13

    IPC分类号: H03M1/06 H03K5/02 H03K17/687

    摘要: The present disclosure provides a buffer circuit and a buffer. The buffer circuit includes: an input follower circuit for following the voltage change of the first input signal; an input follower linearity boosting circuit for improving follower linearity of the input follower circuit; a first voltage bootstrap circuit for bootstrapping the voltage of the first input signal; a second voltage bootstrap circuit for bootstrapping the voltage of the second input signal; a third voltage bootstrap circuit for providing corresponding quiescent operation point voltage; a compensation follower circuit for following the compensation voltage; a compensation follower linearity boosting circuit for improving follower linearity of the compensation follower circuit; a first load for collecting the buffered voltage; a bias circuit for providing a bias current for the buffer; a bias linearity boosting circuit for improving linearity of the bias circuit; a second load for generating a nonlinear compensation current.

    METHOD FOR CALIBRATING CAPACITOR VOLTAGE COEFFICIENT OF HIGH-PRECISION SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER

    公开(公告)号:US20210013896A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-14

    申请号:US16620879

    申请日:2018-07-18

    IPC分类号: H03M1/10

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to the field of semiconductor integrated circuits, and to a method for calibrating a capacitor voltage coefficient of a high-precision successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC). The method includes: calibrating a voltage coefficient; obtaining a sampled charged charge according to a capacitance model with the voltage coefficient; according to an INL value obtained by testing, first verifying whether a maximum value of INL occurs in the place shown in Equation 3, then obtaining two very close second-order capacitor voltage coefficients according to Equation 4, and taking an average value thereof as a second-order capacitor voltage coefficient; and then calibrating the second-order capacitor voltage coefficient in a digital domain. In the present disclosure, a capacitor voltage coefficient can be extracted based on INL and the capacitor voltage coefficient is calibrated at a digital backend without adding an analog calibration circuit, thereby improving conversion accuracy of the ADC.