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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2024
Credo Technology Group Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Kyungjin Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Haihui Luo, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shunken Huang, Hsinchu, TW;
Junqing Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Flash analog to digital converters and other types of integrated circuits having multiple comparators may employ calibration methods and firmware to efficiently compensate the various offset voltages of the multiple comparators. One illustrative integrated circuit includes: multiple comparators each configured to provide a comparator output signal indicating whether an input signal exceeds a reference voltage by more than an offset voltage, the multiple comparators including a current comparator and a previous comparator; and a controller configured to perform a search to select a calibration setting for each of the comparators in turn, the controller determining an initial search window for the current comparator based on a calibration setting selected for the previous comparator.