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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:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Weibiao Zhang, Ames, IA (US);
Donald C. Richardson, Plano, TX (US);
Richard Hester, McKinney, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/34 ; H03M 1/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/34 ; H03M 1/12 ;
Abstract
A pipelined analog-to-digital converter includes a first stage 700 of an analog-to-digital converter having a first resolution. The first stage 700 includes a three capacitor switched capacitor circuit. The analog-to-digital converter further includes one or more subsequent analog-to-digital converter stages 200. The first and subsequent stages 700 and 200 are pipelined together to provide a digital output signal.