Broadcom Corporation

Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited

Darwin Cheung

Xicheng Jiang

Jungwoo Song

Mark Chambers

Yee Ling Cheung

Josephus A E P Van Engelen

Chi Mo

Vinay Chandrasekhar

Xiaofeng Lin

Kareem Abdelghani Ibraheem Mohamed Ragab

A device (e.g., SAR ADC device) include a DAC circuit and generates a digital output based on logic circuitry that includes SAR logic. Additional logic circuitry includes delta modulation circuitry and dynamic element matching circuitry. The delta modulation circuitry provides several digital outputs of the SAR DAC, while the dynamic element matching circuitry selects a different set of capacitors from the DAC circuit. Each cycle is added together and averaged, and then added to the digital output from the SAR logic.

Incremental delta modulation for analog to digital converter signal to noise ratio and linearity enhancement

A signal driving system generates an output swinging between a first power supply (e.g., about 1.2 Volts), powering first and second drivers, and a second power supply (e.g., about 3.3 Volts), powering a first current mirror. The second power supply is generated external to the signal driving system and is used to allow for a desired common-mode differential output signal range. However, the second power supply produces voltage at a level above a rating of the devices in the signal driving system. Therefore, protection devices are used to protect the elements of the signal driving system from the second power supply. Accordingly, through use of the signal driving system of the present invention, a high voltage current mode driver can operate in a low voltage process without damaging the devices in the signal driving system.

Signal driving system

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Darwin Cheung