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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Alper Tunga Erdogan, Kucukesat, TR;
Chung-Li Lu, San Jose, CA (US);
Bijit Halder, Santa Clara, CA (US);
GlobespanVirata, Inc., Red Bank, NJ (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention is related to an analog-to-digital converter comprising a polyphase combiner comprising at least a first combiner filter and a second combiner filter for receiving a plurality of inputs and generating a combined signal. The analog-to-digital converter also comprises a multistage decimator structure for receiving the combined signal and generating a digital sigma-delta output, the multistage decimator structure comprising at least a first decimator comprising a first integrator filter; a first downsampling block and a first differentiator; and a second decimator comprising a second integrator filter; a second downsampling block and a second differentiator.