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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2010
Applicants:
Hugo Gicquel, Grenoble, FR;
Sophie Minot, Grenoble, FR;
Marc Sabut, Eybens, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS, Grenoble, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device may include a programmable gain amplifier and an analog-digital converter with pipeline architecture having several stages. The first stage of the analog-digital converter may incorporate the programmable gain amplifier and an analog-digital conversion circuit with a programmable threshold.