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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2016
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Jawaharlal Tangudu, Bangalore, IN;
Sthanunathan Ramakrishnan, Bangalore, IN;
Nagarajan Viswanathan, Bangalore, IN;
Pooja Sundar, Bangalore, IN;
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for reducing non-linearity in analog to digital converters are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an analog-to-digital converter to convert an analog signal into a digital signal; and a non-linearity corrector coupled to the analog-to-digital converter to determine a derivative of the digital signal; determine cross terms including a combination of the digital signal and the derivative of the digital signal; and determine a non-linearity term corresponding to a combination of the cross terms.