Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

Jaerin Lee

Minjae Lee

Kyeongkeun Kang

Hyungyu Ju

Sewon Lee

Yang Azevedo Tavares

An apparatus and a method of correcting a mismatch of a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter are provided. The apparatus may include: a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter configured to receive a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal in a correction mode and generate a first output signal, and including a plurality of analog-to-digital converters; and a mismatch corrector configured to generate a second output signal by processing the first output signal of the time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter based on parameters, wherein the parameters may be generated based on the first output signal of the time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter in the correction mode, and a period of the NRZ signal may be different from a product of a sampling period of the time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter and a number of the plurality of analog-to-digital converters included in the time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter.

Apparatus and method for calibrating mismatches of time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter

An analog-to-digital converter is provided. The analog-to-digital converter includes: a sample/hold circuit; a digital-to-analog converter; a plurality of comparison circuits; a control logic; and a digital register, wherein the plurality of comparison circuits include: a first comparison circuit configured to output a first comparison result signal in a first operation period; a second comparison circuit configured to, in a second operation period, calibrate an offset of a second comparison result signal based on a reference signal corresponding to the first comparison result signal among a plurality of reference signals and output the calibrated second comparison result signal; and a third comparison circuit configured to, in a third operation period, calibrate an offset of a third comparison result signal based on a reference signal corresponding to the calibrated second comparison result signal and output the calibrated third comparison result signal.

Analog-to-digital converter

An analog-to-digital converter, including a sample/hold circuit; a reference voltage driver; a digital-to-analog converter; a comparator; and a logic circuit, wherein the reference voltage driver includes: a first voltage supplier circuit configured to output an external supply voltage provided from outside of the analog-to-digital converter; a second voltage supplier circuit configured to output a sampled reference voltage that is obtained during a sampling phase based on control signals received from the logic circuit; and a switching driver configured to electrically connect the first voltage supplier circuit to the digital-to-analog converter during a first conversion phase after the sampling phase based on the control signals received from the logic circuit, and to electrically connect the second voltage supplier circuit to the digital-to-analog converter during a second conversion phase based on the control signals received from the logic circuit.

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