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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2011
Hung Sheng Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Ovidiu Carnu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shingo Hatanaka, San Jose, CA (US);
Hung Sheng Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Ovidiu Carnu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shingo Hatanaka, San Jose, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., , BM;
Abstract
Methods and systems are described for providing an analog-to-digital converter that uses reduced power and supply voltage. In one embodiment, an analog-to-digital converter comprises a sample phase configured to sample an analog signal with at least three capacitors, wherein at least two of the three capacitors have unequal capacitance to cause the analog-to-digital converter to have a feedback factor that is greater than 1/3. The analog-to-digital converter also includes a feedback phase configured to produce a digital output signal based at least in part on the sampled analog signal, wherein the analog-to-digital converter is configured to operate with a supply voltage equal to about one half of an input signal voltage range of the analog signal.