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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2020
Applicant:
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (US);
Inventors:
Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Vineyard, UT (US);
Yixin Song, Provo, UT (US);
Eric Swindlehurst, Provo, UT (US);
Jensen Hunter, Provo, UT (US);
Yen-Cheng Kuan, Provo, UT (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/66 (2006.01); H03M 1/46 (2006.01); H03M 1/00 (2006.01); H03M 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/462 (2013.01); H03M 1/002 (2013.01); H03M 1/0678 (2013.01); H03M 1/466 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention is a system and method for providing a modified Digital-to-Analog converter (DAC) for use in a time-interleaved successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the DAC including grouping of capacitance electrodes by Bit in a DAC, thereby reducing parasitic capacitances, and substantially improving power efficiency and speed to operate at GHz frequencies.