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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Arild T. Kolsrud, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/20 ;
Abstract
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a dither signal generator configured to add an analog dither signal to the analog input signal of the ADC prior to digitization (i.e., quantization). The amplitude of the dither signal is selected based upon the power levels of one or more carriers present in the bandwidth for which the ADC is designed to operate. Addition of the dither signal to the input signal in the analog domain reduces quantization noise such as conversion spurs that result from non-linearities in the ADC transfer function.