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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2008
Applicant:
Akira Kurauchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Akira Kurauchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Electronics Corporation, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a pipeline ADC in which an operational amplifier is shared between circuit blocks that construct local A/D converters of nth and (n+1)th stages, a sampling capacitor of the nth stage is divided into a plurality of sampling capacitors, and some of the plurality of sampling capacitors thus divided in the nth stage are adopted as sampling capacitors of the (n+1)th stage.