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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2010
Applicants:

C. Gary Nilsson, Hawthorne, CA (US);

Craig A. Hornbuckle, Torrance, CA (US);

Kevin William Glass, Scottsdale, AZ (US);

Inventors:

C. Gary Nilsson, Hawthorne, CA (US);

Craig A. Hornbuckle, Torrance, CA (US);

Kevin William Glass, Scottsdale, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Semtech Corporation, Camarillo, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Examples of a system and method for sigma-delta analog-to-digital conversion of an electrical input signal are disclosed. An electrical input signal is received. A filtered analog signal is provided based on the electrical input signal and an analog feedback signal. A digital representation of the filtered analog signal is provided, the digital representation being one of K quantization levels, wherein K is a positive integer between 2and 2, L being a positive integer. The analog feedback signal is obtained based on the digital representation.


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