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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2017
Applicant:
Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/06 (2006.01); G04F 10/00 (2006.01); H03M 1/38 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G04F 10/005 (2013.01); H03M 1/1245 (2013.01); H03M 1/38 (2013.01); H03M 1/00 (2013.01); H03M 1/0695 (2013.01); H03M 1/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A two-stage successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) comprising is described. The SAR ADC includes a first stage comprising a SAR ADC; a voltage-to-time interface that translates a voltage-domain residue from the SAR ADC to a time-domain residue; and a second stage comprising a time-to-digital converter (TDC) that resolves multiple bits from the time-domain residue.