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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2016
Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Obaida Mohammed Khaled Abu Hilal, Singapore, SG;
Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
In an example embodiment, an apparatus includes: a first sampling capacitor and a comparator to compare a sum voltage at a first input terminal to a voltage level at a second input terminal according to a thermometer cycle. The sum voltage is based at least in part on an analog input voltage and a divided reference voltage, where the analog input voltage and the reference voltage (V) are of a first voltage range and the divided reference voltage is according to to enable the comparator to operate at a second voltage range, the second voltage range less than and M is a number of bits of a digital output to be decided in the thermometer cycle and is greater than one.