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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2006
Mingdeng Chen, Harleysville, PA (US);
James A. Bailey, Snowflake, AZ (US);
Siamak Mortezapour, Fremont, CA (US);
Mingdeng Chen, Harleysville, PA (US);
James A. Bailey, Snowflake, AZ (US);
Siamak Mortezapour, Fremont, CA (US);
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
Various systems and methods for converting a signal from the analog domain to the digital domain are disclosed herein. As one example, an analog-to-digital converter is disclosed that includes two pipelined analog-to-digital converter stages. The first analog-to-digital converter stage provides an encoded word output and the second analog-to-digital converter stage provides an unencoded word output. A summation device is provided to aggregate the encoded word output with the unencoded word output.