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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2021
Ethernovia Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Klaas Bult, Bosch en Duin, NL;
Ethernovia Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are circuits and methods for a CDAC with capacitive references. Individual reference capacitors can be implemented to provide the reference voltages for each input capacitor in a CDAC. For example, each input capacitor may be allocated a high-reference capacitor and a low-reference capacitor to provide the reference voltage to the respective input capacitor. Each of these reference capacitors is charged along with the input capacitor when the CDAC is configured into a loading configuration, and then used to convert digital data to an analog signal when the CDAC is configured into a conversion configuration. Accordingly, the reference voltage for each input capacitor is provided by a separate power source. This contrasts with current solutions in which the reference voltages for the input capacitors are provided by either a singular high-reference voltage source or low-reference voltage source.