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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2017
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Gun-Hee Yun, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Hyun-Mook Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 (2013.01); H04N 5/37455 (2013.01);
Abstract
An analog-to-digital converter includes a ramp signal generation unit suitable for decreasing a voltage range of a ramp signal in reverse proportion to a multiple of a gain and repeatedly generating the ramp signal by the multiple of the gain; a comparator suitable for repeatedly outputting a comparison signal by the multiple of the gain in response to the ramp signal; and a counter suitable for performing a counting operation in response to the comparison signal.