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Patent No.:

US 8284090 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2010
Applicant:

Roberto Maurino, Turin, IT;

Inventor:

Roberto Maurino, Turin, IT;

Assignee:

Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid analog to digital converter that may include a DAC coupled to a hybrid analog to digital converter input; an integrator having an input coupled to the hybrid analog to digital converter input and the DAC, and generating an integrator output; a comparator coupled to the integrator output and having a comparator output; a successive approximation register coupled to the comparator output; and a counter coupled to the comparator output to generate an hybrid analog to digital converter output. The hybrid analog to digital converter may be operable as a successive approximation register converter and a continuous time sigma delta converter.


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Maurino, Roberto. (2012). Method and apparatus for analog to digital conversion of small signals in the presence of a large dc offset (U.S. Patent No. 8284090). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8284090

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