Stmicroelectronics S.r.l.

Federico Garibaldi

Pierangelo Confalonieri

Marco Zamprogno

Sergio Pernici

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.

Time-delay circuit

A single-loop differential switched-capacitor sigma-delta converter has a three stage double-sampling architecture with reduced current consumption. The converter is stable for large input dynamics, which makes it suitable for RF applications. The three-stage multi-bit double-sampled architecture has a single-loop architecture in which all integrators are included in a same feedback loop. This has been made possible based upon the type of integrators that are connected in cascade. Functioning of the converter is less sensitive to nonlinearities of the operational amplifiers of the integrators.

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Federico Garibaldi