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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2019
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Xavier Albinet, Roquefort les Pins, FR;
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is described having a digital input, an analogue output, and two capacitors. The DAC has a controller. The controller is configured to generate a switching sequence including at least two switch cycles dependent on the input value received on the digital input. If the input value corresponds to an odd number, in a first switch cycle during a switch cycle first phase, the controller switchably couples a reference voltage to a first terminal and a ground voltage to a second terminal of one of the two capacitors, and switchably couples a ground voltage to a first terminal and the reference voltage to a second terminal of the other of the two capacitors. During a switch cycle second phase, the controller switchably couples a ground voltage to the first terminal and the analogue output to the second terminal of both capacitors.