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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2000
Per Ola Börjesson, Morrum, SE;
Mikael Isaksson, Luleå, SE;
Per Ödling, Luleå, SE;
Daniel Bengtsson, Luleå, SE;
Gunnar Bahlenberg, Luleå, SE;
Magnus Johansson, Luleå, SE;
Lennart Olsson, Luleå, SE;
Sven Göran Ökvist, Luleå, SE;
STMicroelectronics NV, Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A circuit, for digitizing an analogue signal includes an analogue to digital converter, a clip processor adapted to estimate a value for clipped digital signal samples, and a buffer adapted to dynamically store a plurality of digitized samples produced by the analogue to digital converter. The clip processor is adapted to read digitized samples from the buffer and replace clipped digitized samples with the estimated values, thereby mitigating the effects of clipping in an output of the circuit.