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8466822 Analog-to-digital conversion apparatus and signal processing system  
An AD conversion apparatus includes: a first AD converter for converting an input analog signal into a first digital signal; a second AD converter for converting an analog signal obtained as a...
8466644 Motor driving circuit  
First and second A/D converters perform analog/digital conversion of first and second signals of a Hall signal so as to generate third and fourth signals as digital signals. A differential...
8466817 Electronic device and method for driving an internal function block of a processor of the electronic device to operate in a linear region  
An electronic device and a method for driving an internal function block of a processor of the electric device to operate in a linear region. The electronic device comprises a processor having two...
8462029 Analog-to-digital conversion apparatus and signal processing system  
An analog-to-digital conversion apparatus includes: a first analog-to-digital converter and a second analog-to-digital converter that are configured to convert an input analog signal into a digital...
8456347 Analog-to-digital converter  
An analog-to-digital converter including a voltage generation unit and a plurality of sub ADCs, each including a selection unit for selecting a voltage generated by the voltage generation unit...
8457794 Multi-segment linearization of micro-actuator transfer functions  
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved accuracy of displacement control by using a multi-segment transformation of an actuator's non-linear response. The present invention may set...
8456335 Analog-to-digital converter  
In a successive approximation ADC, resolution is limited because a distortion occurs in an A/D conversion result due to a voltage dependence of a sampling capacitance. An A/D converter includes a...
8456195 System and method for on-chip jitter and duty cycle measurement  
An apparatus for measuring time interval between two edges of a clock signal and includes an edge generator, a first multi-tap delay module, a second multi-tap delay module, and a multi-element...
8451152 Pipelined ADC inter-stage error calibration  
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is provided. The ADC includes a plurality of pipelined ADCs and an adjustment circuit. Each pipelined ADC is adapted to receive an analog input signal, has an...
8451151 Successive approximation analog to digital converter with capacitor mismatch calibration and method thereof  
A capacitance mismatch calibrating method for a successive approximation register ADC which includes at least one array of capacitors is provided. The method includes the following steps: firstly,...
8451361 Image pickup device and signal processing method thereof  
An image pickup device is provided, capable of complete correction with data of once analog-to-digital conversion, and prevention of excess use of switches and analog devices and/or erroneous...
8451154 Pipelined ADC calibration  
A method of calibrating a pipelined analog to digital converter having a plurality of DAC elements and an additional calibration DAC element is provided. In the method as provided herein, a...
8446303 System and method of analog-to-digital converters  
An analog-to-digital converter system that includes a pipeline including N successively-cascaded signal converters, each converting, according to a first clock signal, a respective portion of an...
8441378 Capacitor mismatch error correction in pipeline analog-to-digital converters  
Various embodiments of methods and devices for reducing capacitor mismatch errors in a pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are disclosed. A plurality of pipeline element circuits are...
8436756 A/D conversion device and servo control device  
An A/D conversion device includes an A/D conversion circuit that converts an inputted analog signal to digital data and outputs it, a digital signal correction unit that performs a correction...
8436760 Low power current-voltage mixed ADC architecture  
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to low power current-voltage mixed ADC architecture. In some implementations, an apparatus includes sample and hold circuitry, at...
8432304 Error correction in thermometer codes  
A thermometer coded line is configured to convert a time interval to a digital code for subsequent processing in order to output a value representative of said time interval. A digital peak...
8427349 ***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Digital correction techniques for data converters
 
A method and apparatus is disclosed to compensate for impairments within a data converter such that its output is a more accurate representation of its input. The data converter includes a main...
8421658 Parallel pipelined calculation of two calibration values during the prior conversion cycle in a successive-approximation-register analog-to-digital converter (SAR-ADC)  
A Successive-Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter (SAR-ADC) predicts compensation values for use in a future cycle. A compensation value is applied to capacitors in a calibration...
8421656 Time-interleaved analog-to-digital conversion circuit having polyphase correction filter  
Time-interleaved analog-to-digital (AD) conversion circuit, which includes first and second AD converters that generate first and second digital signal sequences by converting an analog input...
8421660 Configurable cascading sigma delta analog-to digital converter (ADC) for adjusting power and performance  
A cascaded sigma-delta modulator has several modulator loops that have one or two sets of integrators, summers, and scalers, and a quantizer that generates a loop output. Input muxes to each loop...
8421657 AD conversion circuit and error correcting method  
In a microcomputer 10 which converts an analog signal Vin into digital data and corrects an error of the digital data, a voltage variation ΔVcc is calculated on the basis of a first conversion ...
8410960 Method to linearize the output from an ADC  
A method is disclosed of compensating the output of an ADC for non-linearity in the response of the ADC. The method comprises converting an analog input signal to uncorrected digital ADC output...
8400340 Achieving high dynamic range in a sigma delta analog to digital converter  
A continuous-time sigma-delta analog to digital converter (CTSD ADC) includes a comparator that samples the time integral of an analog signal at each rising edge and falling edge of a sampling...
8400338 Compensating for harmonic distortion in an instrument channel  
Automatic test equipment (ATE) includes circuitry configured to pass a signal in a channel of the ATE, and memory configured to store a first and second correction values. A first correction value...
8400337 Offset cancellation by biasing the body of a transistor  
Offset is canceled by determining a voltage level to set a body input of a transistor to. The body input of the transistor is set to the determined voltage level to cancel offset associated with...
8400343 Pipeline analog to digital converter with split-path level shifting technique  
A stage of a pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is provided according to embodiments of the present invention. The stage of the present invention has double-amplifier architecture and uses...
8390495 MIMO delta-sigma delta analog-to-digital converter using noise canceling  
A multi-input-multi-output-system (MIMO) is provided that includes a first input signal and a second input signal. A plurality of analog-to-digital converter (ADC) cell structures receive as input...
8390486 Automatic offset adjustment for digital calibration of column parallel single-slope ADCs for image sensors  
Various embodiments of the present invention include enabling, during a calibration phase, a counter to count one less than a number of clock periods associated with a determined offset. The...
8390487 System and method of analog-to-digital converters  
An analog-to-digital converter system that includes a pipeline of successively-cascaded signal converters, each operating alternatively in a first circuit configuration and a second circuit...
8390496 System and method for common mode translation  
System and method for common mode translation in continuous-time sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters. An embodiment includes a loop filter having an RC network coupled to a differential signal...
8390494 Second order noise coupling with zero optimization modulator and method  
A method and apparatus for a modified noise-coupled modulator using zero optimization technique is disclosed. By realizing the resonator coefficient as a part of branches other than those of the...
8390498 Comparing circuit and parallel analog-to-digital converter  
First and second resistor series divide a predetermined voltage range to generate first reference voltages and second reference voltages, respectively. First and second switch controlling circuits...
8390488 Non-linearity correction that is independent of input common mode, temperature variation, and process variation  
In pipeline analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) the third harmonic can degrade the performance of the ADC, and conventional circuits that attempt to cancel this third harmonic are oftentimes...
8384579 Systems and methods for data conversion  
Systems and methods are provided for converting analog data to digital data that can include a discharge capacitor coupled to a voltage source. The voltage source supplies an initial data charge to...
8384571 A/D conversion circuit and A/D conversion method  
An analog-to-digital conversion circuit includes: comparators to compare an input analog signal and one of reference voltages corresponding to each operation in an analog-to-digital conversion; an...
8378864 Apparatuses and methods for reducing errors in analog to digital converters  
Successive approximation Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and related methods are disclosed. A successive approximation ADC includes a comparator with a comparator output and inputs coupled to a...
8378863 Analog-to-digital converter and correction method thereof  
An analog-to-digital (AD) converter device, includes: a capacitive digital-to-analog converter (DAC) including a reference capacitor group having capacitors which are weighted with a ratio, one...
8378865 Method of testing digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters  
A method of testing a digital-to-analog or analog-to-digital converter including coarse and fine voltage dividers corresponding respectively to more and less significant bits of the digital signal....
8373585 Diagnostic circuit for monitoring an analog-digital converter circuit  
Described is monitoring of an analog-digital conversion of a measured value of at least one of a pressure gauge, a level gauge and a flowmeter. Different measured values can be provided for the...
8368578 Asynchronous digital slope analog-to-digital converter and method thereof  
The present invention is related to an analog to digital converter circuit. The circuit comprises at least one input node for applying an analog input voltage signal (Vin), means for sampling said...
8368572 Detecting device  
A detecting device has: a detecting element to which a first constant voltage is applied; a resistance element connected to the detecting element; a switching element having a first terminal to the...
8368569 Data converting device, program and method  
A data conversion device is provided with a data converting means that sequentially converts first data into second data of the number of second bits, wherein an analog signal is quantized into the...
8368570 Method and system for calibrating column parallel ADCs  
Various embodiments of the invention include enabling, during a calibration phase, a counter to count one less than a number of clock periods associated with a determined offset. The counted number...
8368571 Pipelined ADC having error correction  
A pipeline stage of a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit can include an ADC to convert an analog input to a digital output, a first plurality of digital-to-analog converters (DACs)...
8362940 Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter, and operating clock adjustment method therefor  
A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter includes: a digital-to-analog converter to generate an analog voltage based on an input voltage sampled in accordance with a sampling...
8362935 Device and method for controlling reference voltage of digital-to-analog converter  
The present invention relates to device and method for controlling a reference voltage of a digital-to-analog converter for minimizing variation of output voltages among LED driving chips which...
8362934 Comparator and analog/digital converter  
To provide a comparator and an A/D converter having the comparator. The comparator includes a differential amplifier circuit section and a differential latch circuit section. A first input voltage...
8358228 Method for modifying the LMS algorithm to reduce the effect of correlated perturbations  
A process allows for the modification of the least-means-square (LMS) algorithm to remove perturbations associated with measured signals in an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The process...
8350737 Flash analog to digital converter with method and system for dynamic calibration  
A flash analog to digital converter and a method and system for dynamically calibrating the flash analog to digital converter. The analog to digital converter may include a track and hold circuit...