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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Nordic Semiconductor Asa, Trondheim, NO;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nordic Semiconductor ASA, Trondheim, NO;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/39 (2013.01); H03M 3/43 (2013.01); H03M 3/456 (2013.01);
Abstract
An integrated-circuit, continuous-time, sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter has a single-ended analog input, a converter reference input, and a ground connection. The converter has a resistor-capacitor integrator arranged to receive the single-ended analog input. The integrator comprises a differential amplifier. The converter also has a clocked comparator connected to an output from the integrator, and circuitry arranged so that reference inputs to the amplifier and to the comparator can be maintained at a common voltage derived from the converter reference input.