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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2007
Applicant:
Jian-yi Wu, San Ramon, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jian-Yi Wu, San Ramon, CA (US);
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sigma-delta modulator is provided with a feedback digital-to-analog converter having less resolution than the quantizer, while providing a reduced length output word, requiring minimal additional internal processing, and shaping of the truncation error by an effective noise transfer function greater than the order of the host sigma-delta modulator, and further providing increased dynamic range.