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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2018
Applicant:
Analog Devices International Unlimited Company, Limerick, IE;
Inventors:
Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz, Edinburgh, GB;
Edward Chapin Guthrie, Charlestown, MA (US);
Joseph Leandro Balais Peje, Manila, PH;
Assignee:
Analog Devices International Unlimited Company, Limerick, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/46 (2006.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H03M 1/56 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03M 1/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/466 (2013.01); H03M 1/123 (2013.01); H03M 1/1295 (2013.01); H03M 1/145 (2013.01); H03M 1/56 (2013.01); H04N 5/3575 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ADC circuit that can resolve the most significant bits (MSBs) using a first circuit during a first stage of a multi-stage conversion and resolve the least significant bits (LSBs) using a second circuit during a second stage of the multi-stage conversion. This can be used, for example, in massively parallel applications where the reference level generation can be shared between thousands of converters.