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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2011
Applicants:
Stéphane Le Tual, St-Egreve, FR;
Mounir Boulemnakher, Grenoble, FR;
Pratap Narayan Singh, Varanasi, IN;
Inventors:
Stéphane Le Tual, St-Egreve, FR;
Mounir Boulemnakher, Grenoble, FR;
Pratap Narayan Singh, Varanasi, IN;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of successive approximation analog to digital conversion including: during a sample phase, coupling an input signal to a plurality of pairs of capacitors; and during a conversion phase, coupling a first capacitor of each pair to a first supply voltage, and a second capacitor of each pair to a second supply voltage.