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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2004
Applicants:
Kush Gulati, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hae-seung Lee, Bedford, MA (US);
Inventors:
Kush Gulati, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hae-Seung Lee, Bedford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A reconfigurable ADC includes a plurality of reconfigurable blocks for allowing the ADC to provide a plurality of architectures. In one embodiment, the ADC can be configured to operate in a pipeline mode and a sigma-delta mode. This arrangement provides an ADC having a relatively large range of bandwidth and resolution.