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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1996
Joe Martin Poss, Rochester, MN (US);
Timothy Joseph Schmerbeck, Kasson, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A high speed differential analog to digital converter (ADC) is provided. The high speed differential ADC includes a driver section, a comparator section and a decoder section. The driver section includes a pair of series connected resistor ladders with a positive phase voltage source connected at the top and bottom of one of the pair of series connected resistor ladders and a negative phase voltage source connected at the top and bottom of the other one of the pair of series connected resistor ladders; both the positive phase voltage source and the negative phase voltage source including a predetermined first DC voltage value. At least one additional positive phase voltage source is connected to the one of the pair of series connected resistor ladders and at least one additional negative phase voltage source is connected to the other one of the pair of series connected resistor ladders. The additional positive phase and negative phase voltage sources include a predetermined second DC voltage value.