Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Jens Sauerbrey

Manfred Mauthe

Oliver Kiehl

A digital-analog converter having high linearity is based on two sigma-delta modulators of second order which are fed back in a cascaded fashion and via differentiators. The first modulator has a quantizer with only three stages, an output signal of which delivers an analog output signal via a three-stage digital-analog converter and a low-pass filter. The particularly high linearity, the good stability and the relatively large bandwidth with reference to clock frequency are advantages of the digital-analog converter.

Device for digital-analog conversion with high linearity

A fully differential resistor-string digital-to-analog converter wherein a resistor network having half the number of resistors of an otherwise standard digital-to-analog convertor of this type is enabled with the assistance of a first decoder, a second decoder and a subtraction unit thus reducing the required chip area and the overall switching time.

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Munich, Germany

Jens Sauerbrey