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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2010
Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty Ali, Oak Ridge, NC (US);
Bryan Scott Puckett, Stokesdale, NC (US);
Joseph Michael Hensley, Lexington, NC (US);
Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty Ali, Oak Ridge, NC (US);
Bryan Scott Puckett, Stokesdale, NC (US);
Joseph Michael Hensley, Lexington, NC (US);
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Abstract
An analog-to-digital converter system that includes a pipeline including N successively-cascaded signal converters, each converting, according to a first clock signal, a respective portion of an input signal of the pipeline into digital codes, a code aligner for receiving and aligning the digital codes from the signal converters in the pipeline into a digital output of the system, an error extractor coupled to an amplifier input node of a selected one signal converter via a first switch for extracting an error signal, and a load system coupled to the amplifier input node of the selected one signal converter via a second switch.