Analog Devices,inc.

Teng-Hee Lee

Roderick McLachlan

Alan Gillespie

A force/sense voltage-mode DAC coupled with multiple transconductance amplifiers that generate a correction current injected to a node in one of the DAC cells is discussed. The correction current injected into the DAC cell may reduce nonlinearity produced by biasing current to the operational amplifiers in the DAC.

Linearity correction circuit for voltage mode DAC

A digital to analog converter comprising: a digital to analog conversion core adapted to receive at least one reference voltage and a digital word to be converted, and to output an analog voltage as a function of the digital word and the at least one reference voltage; a sensing circuit for sensing a difference between a first ground voltage associated with an output of the digital to analog converter and a ground reference voltage occurring at the digital to analog converter; and a compensation circuit for applying a compensation voltage to the at least one reference voltage used by the conversion core of the digital to analog converter.

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