Analog Devices,inc.

Scott H Wayne

Michael C W Coln

Howard R Samuels

Bruce E Amazeen

Gerald A Miller

Mick Mueck

A multi-stage, low-offset, fast-recovery, comparator system and method for: reducing the input offset voltage of the zeroing amplifier by a factor essentially equal to gain of the zeroing amplifier; reducing the input offset voltage of the combined main and zeroing amplifiers by a factor essentially equal to the product of the gains of the main and zeroing amplifiers; and amplifying the input signal to the amplification stage in accordance with the gain of the main amplifier to generate an amplified high-resolution signal.

Multi-stage, low-offset, fast-recovery, comparator system and method

A precision switched capacitor ratio system includes a capacitor; a switching device for selectively interconnecting the capacitor with one of a plurality of charging circuits and alternately connecting it with a discharge circuit for discharging the capacitor between each interconnection with a charging current; an integrating device interconnected with the capacitor for averaging the current during the charging and discharging of the capacitor for defining the switched capacitor equivalent resistance; and a clock device for providing synchronized clock signals for operating the switching device to precisely define the ratio of the frequencies of the interconnection of the capacitor with each of the charging circuits.

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