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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Jaewon Nam, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
An analog to digital converter in accordance with the inventive concept may include a reference voltage generation circuit outputting first and second reference voltages; a decompression part decompressing amplitude of an analog input signal and the first and second reference voltages; a flash ADC converting the decompressed analog input signal into a first digital signal with reference to the decompressed first and second reference voltages; and a successive approximation ADC converting the analog input signal into a second digital signal according to a successive approximation operation with reference to the first digital signal and the first and second reference voltages.