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Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2023
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sarthak Kalani, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Andrew Weil, San Diego, CA (US);

John Abcarius, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/10 (2006.01); H03M 1/06 (2006.01); H03M 1/08 (2006.01); H03M 1/74 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/1033 (2013.01); H03M 1/0653 (2013.01); H03M 1/0863 (2013.01); H03M 1/1095 (2013.01); H03M 1/742 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques and apparatus for determining dynamic current mismatches in a current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) are provided. One example technique generally includes accumulating current mismatches between a DAC cell of a plurality of DAC cells and a reference cell using a capacitive element and changing a polarity of the capacitive element during the accumulating. The timing of the accumulating may be controlled such that a static current mismatch between the DAC cell and the reference cell is at least reduced and a dynamic current mismatch between the DAC cell and the reference cell is enhanced.


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