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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2016
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Ashutosh Verma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Abstract
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) are described. In one aspect, an ADC is described which uses a Flash-assisted ADC and a Successive Approximation Register (SAR) to provide digital approximations of an input analog voltage to a Capacitor Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), which generates a voltage from the digital approximations. The two voltages are compared and the comparison value used as the input for the SAR. After successive approximations, a digital combiner generates the digital conversion value from the outputs of the Flash-assisted ADC and the SAR. In one aspect, the bit cycles required for conversion are reduced by using redundancy and recombination.