Exar Corporation

Raphael Horton

Ronald Chang

Jose Antonio Salcedo

J Antonio Salcedo

Charles Andrew Rogers

A programmable delay in an AFE of an imaging system which can vary both the pulse position and the pulse width. The pulse width and position are controlled by providing separate programmable delay circuits for the rising and falling edges of the desired timing signal. Combining logic then combines the outputs of the two delay circuits to produce an output clock with separately delayed rising and falling edges.

Rising and falling edge aperture delay control circuit in analog front end of imaging system

An analog-to-digital converter which has a low resolution and high resolution mode. In response to the low resolution mode signal, a switching circuit selects only certain of the digital bit outputs. In one embodiment, the analog-to-digital converter is a pipelined circuit with a number of stages. In response to the low resolution mode, a number of the stages are bypassed, so that only the needed stages for the smaller number of bits are used. The stages that are bypassed are preferably powered down, but not completely. By maintaining a small amount of bias current to the bypassed stages, they can quickly respond when a switch is made back to full resolution mode.

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Raphael Horton