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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1992
Manfred U Bartz, Snohomish, WA (US);
Donald R Hiller, Lake Stevens, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique for correcting settling, feedthru, and higher order error mechanisms in a dithered analog-to-digital conversion circuit is disclosed. For each conversion cycle of an ADC, a dither signal is generated by converting a current dither value from a sequence of dither values and is then added to an analog input signal. The analog input signal and dither signal are converted by the ADC, and the current dither value subtracted, to form a digital output signal. Correction signals proportional to dither values which precede or follow the current dither value in the sequence are also generated each conversion cycle and subtracted from the analog input signal. The proportions used to produce the correction signals are adjusted dynamically according to the amount of correlation between the digital output signal and the dither values used to form the correction signals. The correction signals are thereby made to equal the amount of error contributed by a corresponding one of the error mechanisms.
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