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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2006
David G. Nairn, Greensboro, NC (US);
David G. Nairn, Greensboro, NC (US);
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Abstract
A multi-channel analog-to-digital converter system includes an array of sub-analog-to-digital converters wherein within the array of sub-analog-to-digital converters, there is at least one designated reference analog-to-digital converter. The analog-to-digital converter system also includes a non-sequential channel select circuit to control a selection of the analog-to-digital converters and the reference analog-to-digital converter to non-sequentially interleave the outputs of said analog-to-digital converters and said reference analog-to-digital converter. Each channel of the plurality of sub-analog-to-digital converters includes a timing skew estimation circuit. Each timing skew estimation circuit receives an output signal from the reference analog-to-digital converter and receives the output signal from the associated analog-to-digital converter. Each timing skew estimation circuit generates a timing signal to be used in shifting or adjusting the actual or apparent sample times for the appropriate analog-to-digital converter.