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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bruce Edward Amazeen, Ipswich, MA (US);
Michael Christian Wohnsen Coln, Lexington, MA (US);
Gary Robert Carreau, Plaistow, NH (US);
Assignee:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 ;
Abstract
Quasi-differential successive-approximation methods and structures are provided for converting analog signals into corresponding digital signals. These methods and structures realize the signal-to-noise improvements of fully-differential SAR ADCs and the calibration accuracy improvements of pseudo-differential SAR ADCs. Structures of the invention operate in a fully-differential mode to establish more-significant bits of the corresponding digital signals and in a pseudo-differential mode to establish the less-significant bits.