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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2008
Paulo Gustavo Raymundo Silva, Delft, NL;
Michael Hendrikus Laurentius Kouwenhoven, Zoetermeer, NL;
Paulo Gustavo Raymundo Silva, Delft, NL;
Michael Hendrikus Laurentius Kouwenhoven, Zoetermeer, NL;
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A sigma-delta difference-of-squares RMS-to-DC converter and method for performing such a conversion in which a square of an analog feedback signal is combined differentially with a square of an analog input signal, thereby producing an analog product signal that includes at least one signal component corresponding to a difference between such signal squares. This analog product signal is filtered and digitized to produce a digital output signal to be available for use downstream in or with the host system, with such digital output signal also being converted to the analog feedback signal.