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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Herve Marie, Ver sur Mer, FR;
Arnaud Biallais, Goneville sur Mer, FR;
Assignee:
INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/06 (2006.01); H03M 1/00 (2006.01); H03M 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/002 (2013.01); H03M 1/183 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of a pipeline analog-to-digital converter is provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a pipeline analog-to-digital converter includes a stage, the stage including a residue amplifier that amplifies a residual voltage generated by the stage to obtain an amplified residual voltage; a backend digitizer that digitizes the amplified residual voltage to generate a digitized residual; and a digital correction circuit that corrects the digitized residual according to which zone the digitized residual is found.