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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2004
Applicants:
John O'dowd, Limerick, IE;
Thomas J. Meany, Limerick, IE;
Tomas Tansley, Kerry, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A reduced chop rate analog to digital converter technique including selectively weighting input samples to a digital filter, alternately inverting the polarity of an input error into positive and negative error components; and generating the positive and negative error components in a plurality of time response intervals of the digital filter in which the sum of the weights of the positive and negative error components are substantially equal.