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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2018
Commsolid Gmbh, Dresden, DE;
Andreas Bury, Dresden, DE;
COMMSOLID GMBH, Dresden, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The objective of the invention to have an analog-to-digital converter with the capability of non-equidistant sample time spacing and minimizing energy consumption will be solved by an apparatus comprising a sigma-delta modulator and a sample-time-counter, both controlled by a sample clock, a next-sample-time-computation unit configured to compute a sample-time-counter value when a next digital output sample is requested, a sample-computation-trigger unit connected to the next-sample-time-computation unit configured to compare an actual sample-time-counter value with the sample-time-counter value when the next digital output sample is requested and to trigger a computation unit for calculating a next digital sample when requested and by powering off the sigma-delta modulator in intervals where its delivered samples are not used for any computed decimator output sample. The objective is also solved by a method using the aforementioned analog-to-digital converter.