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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (Epfl), Lausanne, CH;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ECOLE POLYTECHIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL), Lausanne, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03M 1/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/125 (2013.01); H04R 25/453 (2013.01); H04R 25/505 (2013.01); H03M 1/48 (2013.01); H04R 25/00 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01);
Abstract
An event-driven tracking analog to digital converter (ADC) architecture is proposed. The proposed architecture has less sensitivity to amplifier and DAC non-linearity, reduces the swing and dynamic common-mode range requirement of the operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) and comparators, respectively.