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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

Keith Edmund Kunz, Tucson, AZ (US);

BoQiang Xiao, Tucson, AZ (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 27/02 (2006.01); G05F 3/26 (2006.01); G01R 19/165 (2006.01); G05F 1/46 (2006.01); H03K 5/24 (2006.01); H03K 19/21 (2006.01); G05F 1/575 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 27/026 (2013.01); G01R 19/16552 (2013.01); G05F 1/468 (2013.01); G05F 1/575 (2013.01); G05F 3/262 (2013.01); H03K 5/24 (2013.01); H03K 19/21 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to control switching of a sampling circuit. An example apparatus includes an offset window detector to determine whether a first voltage meets a first threshold of a target input voltage; a settling time detector coupled to the offset window detector, the settling time detector to determine whether a second voltage meets a second threshold, the second voltage dependent on a delay of the settling time detector, the delay of the settling time detector to track a time response of a scaling amplifier; and a sample acquisition controller coupled to the offset window detector and the settling time detector, the sample acquisition controller operable to cause a reference voltage to be sampled, in response to the first threshold and the second threshold being met.


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