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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2009
Kevin William Glass, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Craig A. Hornbuckle, Torrance, CA (US);
C. Gary Nilsson, Hawthorne, CA (US);
Kevin William Glass, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Craig A. Hornbuckle, Torrance, CA (US);
C. Gary Nilsson, Hawthorne, CA (US);
Semtech Corporation, Camarillo, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples of a system and method for sigma-delta analog-to-digital conversion of an electrical input signal are disclosed. A bandpass-filtered signal based on an electrical input signal and an analog feedback signal may be provided. A multi-bit digital representation of the bandpass-filtered signal may be provided. An analog representation of the multi-bit digital representation may be provided. A return-to-zero (RTZ) carving operation may be performed on the analog representation to obtain the analog feedback signal.