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7242335 System on chip for digital control of electronic power devices  
An integrated digital controller for controlling power electronic devices and method of its use, comprises an analog-to-digital converting scanner module for scanning analog data inputs and used to...
7230557 Audio codec adapted to dual bit-streams and methods for use therewith  
A audio codec includes a first analog to digital converter for producing a first one-bit data stream, a second one-bit data stream is received from a digital microphone. A selection module produces...
7227482 Complex band-pass filter for use in digital radio receiver and complex band-pass Δ-Σ AD modulator using the same  
In a first-order complex band-pass filter, multiplexers are alternately switched over between time intervals of phases A and B, where the multiplexers includes two multiplexers provided at input...
7227479 Digital background calibration for time-interlaced analog-to-digital converters  
The present invention provides for background calibration of a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (TIADC). In one embodiment, a background calibrator includes a TIADC having a parallel...
7221298 Calibration circuitry  
Circuitry includes a multiplexer to output first data and second data in response to a clock signal, the clock signal having rising and falling clock edges, where the multiplexer outputs first data...
7221300 Digital-to-analog converter data rate reduction by interleaving and recombination through mixer switching  
A system and method implement very high data rate baseband DACs suitable for wireless applications related to new standards (e.g. Ultra-Wide Band) using CMOS processes allowing an integrated...
7212143 Circuit for selectively analog signals into digital codes  
A circuit for selectively converting at least one analog signal into corresponding digital codes. The circuit includes a management block having a plurality of inputs, each adapted for receiving a...
7209066 Circuit and method for extending microcontroller analog input capability  
A circuit and method extends the analog input capability of a microcontroller by including an autonomous sequence control circuit that supplies input signal setting data and implements delay...
7209063 Semiconductor integrated circuit having switch circuit of digital signal  
A switch circuit shifts a bit number of a digital input signal sequentially according to a selection signal and outputs the shifted digital signal as a digital output signal. A switch control...
7205919 Digital signal processing apparatus and digital signal processing method  
The present invention aims to realize linking of 1-bit signals having respective sampling frequencies that are different from each other and show a relationship of one equal to integer times of the...
7199728 Communication system with low power, DC-balanced serial link  
A data communication system comprises a transmission line between first and second integrated circuits. An encoder on the first integrated circuit encodes an input data stream to produce a sequence...
7196650 Signal converter systems and methods with enhanced signal-to-noise ratios  
Signal converter systems are provided with N analog-to-digital converters that respectively respond to N interleaved clock signals which have a common clock frequency and are further provided with...
7188199 DMA controller that restricts ADC from memory without interrupting generation of digital words when CPU accesses memory  
DMA controller for mixed signal device. A mixed signal integrated circuit with memory control is disclosed. A data conversion circuit is provided that is operable to receive an analog input signal...
7183953 Calibrating automatic test equipment containing interleaved analog-to-digital converters  
Automatic test equipment (ATE) includes interleaved analog-to-digital (A2D) converters to produce digital signals, where the digital signals are used to produce an output signal, the output signal...
7180439 Multi-path digital power supply controller  
A multi-path digital power supply controller includes a first ADC (ADC1) coupled to the supply's output voltage V out and arranged to provide an output which varies with V out 's low frequency...
7173557 Analog/digital converter  
An A/D converter for converting an analog input into a binary-encoded word includes a bit-weight memory storing bit weights that include maximum, mimimum, and medium weights. During a conversion...
7170436 Current mode analog-to-digital converter using parallel, time-interleaved successive approximation subcircuits  
A High-speed Current Mode Analog to Digital Converter is disclosed. The ADC is high-speed, yet is manufacturable at a relatively low cost. The device processes an analog signal through a plurality...
7145491 Time-interleaved band-pass delta-sigma modulator  
A time-interleaved bandpass delta-sigma modulator is developed which includes a first adder and a second adder and a comparator. An input signal is transmitted to the first adder according to the...
7142140 Auto scanning ADC for DPWM  
A system for monitoring interrupts to a processor includes a multiplexer having a plurality of inputs connected to receive various analog inputs. The multiplexer further has an output which is...
7142141 System and method for scheduling access to an analog-to-digital converter and a microprocessor  
An audio system is disclosed and includes a semiconductor device having an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) system and includes a controller and a programmable control register coupled to the...
7138933 Time-interleaved signal converter systems with reduced timing skews  
Time-interleaved signal converter systems are provided that multiplex respective digital sequences of system converters into an interleaved digital sequence before filtering each respective digital...
7135999 Circuit arrangement for compensation for nonlinearities from analog/digital converters operating with different timing  
A circuit arrangement ( 10 ) for compensating for nonlinearities (NL 1 , NL 2 ) from analog/digital converters ( 15, 16 ) operating with different timing, having at least two analog/digital...
7126107 Methods and apparatuses for sensing rotational position of a component in a printing device  
An encoder and related methods for use in a printing device indexing system are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises a feedroller or other component configured to index media through...
7126515 Selectable real time sample triggering for a plurality of inputs of an analog-to-digital converter  
An analog-to-digital conversion apparatus for converting a plurality of analog input signals may include a plurality of analog input, a plurality of sample and hold circuits, one or more...
7126514 Inverter control device and inverter control method  
An inverter control microcomputer 10 comprises AD converters 21–23 , a selector control circuit 31 , and a selector 32 . The selector 32 selects three analog signals from among inputted...
7126522 Apparatus and method of analog-to-digital conversion  
An analog-to-digital conversion apparatus includes a register group, a selecting section and an A/D conversion section. The register group has a plurality of registers holding a plurality of...
7113120 Charge transfer system and method  
A charge transfer system includes a current-based input device for generating an input current signal, a temporary energy storage device, and an amplification device. A switching device couples the...
7112932 System-on-chip for high voltage applications  
A system-on-a-chip (SOC) in CMOS technology capable to support high voltage applications has been achieved. The single chip system of the present invention comprises high-voltage circuitry, a...
7106233 Integrated galvanomagnetic sensor array system  
Galvanomagnetic sensor array system and method for providing data interface to a basic sensor array are provided. The sensor system includes an array of galvanomagnetic elements, and a processor...
7102556 Method and apparatus for obtaining power computation parameters  
A method and apparatus for obtaining power computation parameters is presented. Accurate computation of power requires multiplying voltage and current at the same instant of time and integrating...
7098839 Flash array digitizer  
Apparatus for rapidly acquiring a large number of samples of a signal under test, stores the samples in a waveform memory without converting the samples to binary form. The signal under test is...
7098826 Auto-configuration to connect transmit and receive ports to corresponding ports on the other end irrespective of cable connection mis-match  
An aspect of the present invention provides multiple switches in a transceiver, which enable pins provided for transmission and reception to be connected to either a transmit port or a receive...
7098828 Complex band-pass ΔΣ AD modulator for use in AD converter circuit  
A complex band-pass ΔΣ AD modulator is provided with a subtracter device, a complex band-pass filter, first and second AD converters, and first and second DA converters. The first and second DA...
7068199 Digital to analog converter, phase control circuit, transmission unit recognition circuit  
A digital to analog converter is implemented by two or more digital to analog converters and is further implemented in such a way that the operation of its analog output voltages is combined and...
7068195 Accurate sampling technique for ADC  
A time interleaved ADC system includes a delay circuit that has a dynamically adjusted speed to achieve uniformly spaced sampling intervals. The adjustment control circuit monitors the sampling...
7053804 Phase-error reduction methods and controllers for time-interleaved analog-to-digital systems  
Methods and controllers are provided to estimate and reduce phase errors between converters of time-interleaved analog-to-digital systems by generating corresponding error signals in the form of...
7053806 System and method for calibration of autoranging architectures  
A method for calibrating a segmented analog to digital signal conversion system is provided. The method includes segmenting a desired relationship between DAC output values and desired ADC input...
7049984 Time-interleaved samplers  
This invention relates to a method of calibrating a time-interleaved analogue-to-digital sampler ( 10 ) and to a method of performing analogue-to-digital conversion with a sampler ( 10 ) so...
7046180 Analog-to-digital converter with range error detection  
A circuit includes a multiplexer, an analog-to-digital converter, and a processor that compares a sequence of digital outputs from the analog-to-digital converter to a sequence of normal ranges...
7042376 Scanning front end using single-pole, double-throw switches to reduce settling time  
A scanning front end of a measurement device using single-pole, double-throw switches (SPDT) to multiplex input signals into signal conditioning circuitry. The scanning front end may also include N...
7038610 Integration type A/D converter, and battery charger utilizing such converter  
An integration type A/D converter has two sets of integration type A/D converter sections which can be periodically switched over at a predetermined period, with one converter section integrating...
7038602 Method for correcting periodic sampling errors  
In one representative embodiment, scaling factors and delay values associated with respective analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) of an interleaved ADC are stored in memory. As a digital sample...
7039464 Voltage independent measurement apparatus, system, and method  
A cardiac rhythm management apparatus may include a monitored energy source, a reference energy source, and a measurement module. The monitored source provides an initial pacing amplitude voltage...
7030791 A/D conversion device having input level shift and output correction function  
In an A/D conversion device, one level shift circuit shifts an input voltage to the low potential side by Vt 1 , and another level shift circuit shifts the input voltage to the high potential side...
7030796 Analog-to-digital converting apparatus for processing a plurality of analog input signals at high rate and display device using the same  
An analog-to-digital converting apparatus for rapidly processing a plurality of analog input signals at a high rate and a display device using the same. The apparatus includes a clock signal...
7023368 Digital-to-analog signal converting apparatus and method to extend usable spectrum over Nyquist frequency  
A digital-circuit return-to-zero device and method for digital-to-analog conversion is disclosed that uses an internal multiplexer alternatively selecting, or selecting in a scheduled fashion,...
7023369 Multiplexed-input-separated sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter design for pixel-level analog-to-digital conversion  
An image-sensing element has an array of photodiodes or other photodetecting elements and performs sigma-delta analog-to-digital conversion on the outputs of the photodetecting elements. The...
7002498 Analog demultiplexing  
The analog demultiplexer (FIG. 6 ) includes an input amplifier (A 1 ), and output amplifiers (AMP 1 –AMP N ). The output and inverting (−) input of amplifiers (AMP 1 –AMP N ) are connected...
6985100 Integrated circuit comprising a DAC with provision for setting the DAC to a clear condition, and a method for setting a DAC to a clear condition  
A multi-channel integrated circuit comprises a plurality of channels (CH 1 to CH 20 ). A DAC ( 3 ) is provided in each channel (CH 1 to CH 20 ) for converting digital data inputted to the circuit...
6977602 Wide band digital to analog converters and methods, including converters with selectable impulse response  
Wide band CMOS digital to analog converters (DACs), including converters with selectable impulse response, using multiple DAC cores. The DAC cores operate on the same data at the DAC clock rate,...