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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2012
Applicant:
St-ericsson SA, Plan-les-Ouates, CH;
Inventor:
Carlo Pinna, Milan, IT;
Assignee:
ST-Ericsson SA, Plan-les-Ouates, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/422 (2013.01);
Abstract
A multi-level sigma-delta Analog to Digital converter provides multi-level outputs using a quantizer with reduced quantization levels. The converter comprises a direct path comprising a computation block, an analog integrator and the quantizer with reduced quantization levels. Further, the converter comprises a feedback path arranged to provide to the computation block a feedback analog signal. The direct path comprises a first amplification block having a gain factor which is the inverse of the gain factor of a second amplification block of the feedback path. The converter allows reduction of the complexity of the quantizer.