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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Intel Ip Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
John G. Kauffman, Munich, DE;
Krzysztof Dufrene, Plesching, AT;
Assignee:
Intel IP Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/06 (2006.01); H03M 3/00 (2006.01); H03M 1/46 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/356 (2013.01); H03M 1/0607 (2013.01); H03M 1/46 (2013.01); H03M 3/444 (2013.01); H03M 3/464 (2013.01); H03M 1/00 (2013.01); H03M 1/12 (2013.01); H03M 3/30 (2013.01); H03M 3/386 (2013.01); H03M 3/424 (2013.01); H03M 3/454 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a first integrator to receive an input signal and to generate a first output; a second integrator to receive the first output or a version of the first output and to generate a second output; and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to quantize the second output into a digital representation, the ADC including a detection circuit to detect an overload condition in the second output.