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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2010
Soon-jyh Chang, Tainan, TW;
Jin-fu Lin, Tainan, TW;
Soon-Jyh Chang, Tainan, TW;
Jin-Fu Lin, Tainan, TW;
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan County, TW;
NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Tainan County, TW;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) and its method. First ends of capacitors are electrically coupled to an inverting input node of an amplifier, wherein two of the capacitors are alternatively configured as a feedback capacitor. Each capacitor is composed of at least two sub-capacitors. Second ends of capacitors are electrically coupled to an input signal via a number of sampling switches, and the second ends of the capacitors are electrically coupled to DAC voltages respectively via a number of amplifying switches. A sorting circuit is configured to sort the sub-capacitors, wherein the sorted sub-capacitors are then paired in a manner such that variance of mismatch among the sub-capacitors is thus averaged.