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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2021
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Seyed Arash Mirhaj, Poway, CA (US);
Lei Sun, San Diego, CA (US);
Yuhua Guo, San Diego, CA (US);
Elias Dagher, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Aram Akhavan, San Diego, CA (US);
Yan Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Dinesh Jagannath Alladi, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for pipelined analog-to-digital conversion. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The pipelined ADC includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage includes a sampler and a quantizer coupled to the sampler. The first stage also includes a current distribution circuit coupled to the sampler. The second stage includes a sampler coupled to the current distribution circuit and a quantizer coupled to the sampler of the second stage.