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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2015
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an analog to digital converter. The analog to digital converter includes comparing modules at multi levels, where a comparing module at each level includes a comparator and a metastable state determining unit. The comparator is configured to, when a previous-level comparing module is not in a metastable state, receive a first clock, a first input signal, and a second input signal, and compare the first input signal with the second input signal. The metastable state determining unit is configured to, when the previous-level comparing module is not in a metastable state, receive the first clock, generate a reference clock according to the first clock, and if a second clock that is output by the comparator is later than the reference clock, determine that the current-level comparing module is in a metastable state.