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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2011
Qiong Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Mahooti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qiong Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Mahooti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NXP, B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for correcting the offset and linearity error of a data acquisition system. A charge redistribution digital to analog convertor (CDAC) is connected to one of the differential inputs of a comparator whose second input comes from a function CDAC. The calibration algorithm is built into a digital control unit. The digital control unit detects the offset and capacitor mismatch errors sequentially, stores the calibration codes for each error in calibration mode and provides the input-dependent error correction signals synchronized with the binary search timing to adjust the differential input of the comparator and compensate the input-dependent errors present at the output of the non-ideal function CDAC during normal conversions.