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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1981
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1978
Pierre Debord, Vence, FR;
Jean-Louis Marijon, Le Bar-sur-Loup, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a dynamic compensation circuit for correcting the residual offset voltage encountered in an analog-to-digital conversion chain. Samples of an analog signal having an average value equal to 0 are provided to a first input of a comparator, the second input of which receives a reference signal generated through a D to A converter under control of a control logic circuit. A sample and hold circuit with the comparator causes a DC offset of the output signal level which is to be dynamically corrected by the compensating circuit of the invention. The DC offset causes the duty cycle to differ from one by an amount .DELTA.DC which will be the error curve signal of the compensation circuit. The compensating circuit reduces the .DELTA.DC to 0 by adding to the signal a DC voltage opposite to and of equal magnitude to the offset voltage level.