SAR ADC and electronic device
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12052028B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-30

    申请号:US17844413

    申请日:2022-06-20

    申请人: SILEAD Inc.

    发明人: Jinling Zhou

    摘要: A SAR ADC and an electronic device are disclosed. The SAR ADC includes a read clock generation circuit, configured to connect to a first output terminal and a second output terminal of a dynamic comparator, and generate a read clock signal for reading a first or a second comparison result based on the first and the second comparison result received from the dynamic comparator. The invention reads the comparison result using the read clock signal generated by grabbing the output of the comparator, and can improve the overall analog-to-digital conversion speed of the SAR ADC. Further, the present invention can detect the occurrence of metastable state of the comparator by judging that the output of the comparator has no pulse, and read the comparison result based on the backup clock generated by the operating clock of the comparator.

    CONTINUOUS DITHERED WAVEFORM AVERAGING FOR HIGH-FIDELITY DIGITIZATION OF REPETITIVE SIGNALS

    公开(公告)号:US20230198540A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-22

    申请号:US17555270

    申请日:2021-12-17

    IPC分类号: H03M1/20

    CPC分类号: H03M1/201

    摘要: Methods and devices for digitizing an analog repetitive signal using waveform averaging are described. An example method includes generating a time-varying dither signal, receiving the analog repetitive signal comprising multiple instances of a waveform, wherein each waveform has a waveform duration, wherein an average of the time-varying dither signal over multiple waveform durations is substantially zero, and wherein the time-varying dither signal varies over each waveform duration, generating a timing alignment, combining each waveform with the corresponding portion of the time-varying dither signal over each waveform duration to produce an analog output signal, converting the analog output signal to a digital output signal, and producing, based on the timing alignment, a digital averaged signal based on averaging the multiple instances of the waveform in the analog output signal, wherein the timing alignment is used to align the multiple instances of the waveform in the analog output signal.

    Sensor device including a capacitive charge output device connected to an A/D converter

    公开(公告)号:US11196441B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-07

    申请号:US15979562

    申请日:2018-05-15

    摘要: A sensor device includes an A/D converter including an adder that computes a difference between an analog input signal and a predicted value, the adder includes a capacitive adder defined by a series circuit including a capacitive charge output device and a capacitor. A capacitive component in the charge output device defines a portion of the capacitance of the capacitive adder. A digital prediction filter generates the predicted value based on an output from a quantizer. The capacitive adder computes the difference between the analog input signal from the charge output device and the predicted value. The quantizer quantizes and encodes the difference. The A/D converter performs a Δ modulation on the analog input signal which is converted into a digital signal.

    Background calibration of non-linearity of samplers and amplifiers in ADCs

    公开(公告)号:US11159169B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-26

    申请号:US16877118

    申请日:2020-05-18

    摘要: Analog circuits are often non-linear, and the non-linearities can hurt performance. Designers would trade off power consumption to achieve better linearity. An efficient and effective calibration technique can address the non-linearities and reduce the overall power consumption. A dither signal injected to the analog circuit can be used to expose the non-linear behavior in the digital domain. To detect the non-linearities, a counting approach is applied to isolate non-linearities independent of the input distribution. The approach is superior to and different from other approaches in many ways.

    ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210305994A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US17011115

    申请日:2020-09-03

    摘要: An analog-digital converter includes a first analog-digital conversion unit configured to, during a first analog-digital conversion operation, sequentially charge each of n first differential node pairs, in response to a respective one of a differential sampling signal pair and first to (n−1)th differential signal pairs among n differential signal pairs, in response to each of the n first differential node pairs being sequentially charged, sequentially generate each of n first differential data pairs, and sequentially generate each of n upper differential data pairs to be used as n-bit upper digital data, in response to a respective one of the sequentially-generated n first differential data pairs. The first analog-digital conversion unit is further configured to, during a second analog-digital conversion operation, simultaneously discharge each of the n first differential node pairs, in response to a nth differential signal pair among the n differential signal pairs.