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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2005
Applicant:
Adam Glibbery, Basingstoke, GB;
Inventor:
Adam Glibbery, Basingstoke, GB;
Assignee:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 (2006.01); G06F 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus for characterising an analog to digital converter, comprising a signal generator for supplying an input signal having a first sinusoidal component to an analog to digital converter and an acquisition device for receiving and storing a plurality of output values from the analog to digital converter, and a data processor arranged to examine the output values in order to determine discrepancies due to bit weight errors and to calculate estimates of the bit weights or bit weight errors.