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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2009
Applicants:
Sumant Ranganathan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tom Kwan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xinyu Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates generally to analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Embodiments of the present invention provide novel ADC architectures directed at reducing the overall ADC area and power consumption. Embodiments of the present invention may be used in pipelined ADCs, cyclic ADCs, and successive approximation (SAR) ADCs, for example. Further, embodiments of the present invention may be implemented using both single-ended and differential configurations.