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Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 08, 2014
Applicant:

Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd., Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:

Gerald Miaille, Cambridge, GB;

Michael John Story, Whittlesford, GB;

Dimitrios Mavridis, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 23/02 (2006.01); G01R 23/00 (2006.01); H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 23/00 (2013.01); H03M 3/44 (2013.01); H03M 3/42 (2013.01); H03M 3/454 (2013.01); H03M 3/466 (2013.01); H03M 3/47 (2013.01);
Abstract

An analogue-to-digital converter for converting an analogue input signal into a digital output signal, the analogue-to-digital converter including two conversion paths, each configured to receive a version of the analogue input signal and convert it into a digital bit stream, a first feedback loop configured to provide feed-back, to both paths, that is indicative of a difference between the digital bit streams output by the two paths, and a second feedback loop configured to feed-back, to both paths, that is indicative of an average of the digital bit streams output by the two paths.


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