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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Saeed Abassi, Wynnewood, PA (US);
Fangxing Wei, Chandler, AZ (US);
Michael Roden, Flagtown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
ATI International SRL, Barbados, BB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 ;
Abstract
An analog to digital converter having a group of subrange analysis blocks and reference voltage and offset voltage selection blocks. Each subrange analyses block produces an output representative of a range of bits in a digital output of the analog digital converter. The reference voltage and offset voltage selection blocks enable the operating conditions for the next subrange analysis block to be optimized for both linearity and operating speed.