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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Po-Chin Hsu, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341156 ; 341161 ;
Abstract
A semi-pipelined analog-to-digital converter for the conversion of a continuous analog input signal to a series of digital output codes is disclosed. A semi-pipelined analog-to-digital converter has a coarse resolution analog-to-digital converter for the conversion of the analog input signal to a coarse digital code, and a fine analog-to-digital converter for the conversion of the analog input signal to a fine digital code. The digital output code of the semi-pipelined analog-to-digital converter is created by the encoding of the coarse and fine digital codes in an output encoder.