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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2016
Applicant:
University of Limerick, Limerick, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, Limerick, IE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/422 (2013.01); H03M 3/458 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention to mismatch and ISI shaping in a data converter. The invention provides a dynamic element matching technique that incorporates both mismatch and inter symbol interference shaping. A digital decoder is provided that controls the number of 'on' and 'off' transitions so that the resulting signal does not contain noise or distortion. The element selection technique of the invention is suitable for high resolution multi-bit continuous time oversampling data converters.