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7006023 Sigma-delta modulator with passive bandpass loop filter  
Digitizing a signal includes sampling and holding an analog signal to yield a sampled signal, where the analog signal includes information. The sampled signal is filtered at a passive filter...
7003023 Digital isolation system with ADC offset calibration  
An improved digital capacitive isolation barrier system is provided that is suitable for use in a telephone or modem where the locally powered circuits must be effectively isolated from the public...
7002501 Analog-to-digital converter having parametric configurablity  
A reconfigurable ADC includes a plurality of reconfigurable blocks for allowing the ADC to provide a plurality of architectures. In one embodiment, the ADC can be configured to operate in a...
7002497 Methods and systems for digital dither  
Methods and systems for applying digital dither in data converters, such as delta-sigma data converters. In one embodiment, an analog signal from a first path of a delta-sigma modulator is...
6999015 Electronic device, a digital-to-analog converter, and a method of using the electronic device  
In one embodiment, a D/A converter includes a D/A module and a first differential amplifier. The D/A module converts a digital signal to a first analog signal. The first differential amplifier...
6998910 Amplifier using delta-sigma modulation  
An amplifier and a driver circuit therefor are presented for driving a load according to a system analog input. The amplifier comprises a passive delta-sigma modulator with a passive filter...
6999014 Incremental-delta analogue-to-digital conversion  
A method of, and a converter for, converting an analogue input signal (X) to a digital output signal (Y) by incremental-delta conversion in which, at clock intervals, a non-uniform quantizer ( 7 )...
6992606 Method and circuit for multi-standard sigma-delta modulator  
System and method for a multi-standard sigma-delta modulator. A preferred embodiment comprises an integrator coupled to a signal input, wherein the integrator is configured to sum a difference...
6989778 Semi-conductor circuit arrangement  
A semi-conductor circuit arrangement for a continuous time sigma delta modulator for adding analog input signals to a digital fed back signal and for quantizing the totalled signal comprises a...
6987474 Beamformed ultrasonic imager with delta-sigma feedback control  
A method and apparatus are provided for reducing distortion in a dynamically delayed digital sample stream of an imaging system. The method includes the steps of delta-sigma modulating an input...
6987475 Audio digital to analog converter with harmonic suppression  
A high quality DAC is provided for a lower cost (including the layout size of the circuit on an audio chip) of high end DACs. The DAC includes a first circuit configured to remove even harmonics...
6987473 Digital signal-rate converter and systems incorporating same  
A digital signal-rate converting system. The system includes a first mechanism for receiving a digital input signal characterized by a first rate. A second mechanism interleaves the digital input...
6985531 Dual domain differential encoder/decoder  
A method and apparatus that differentially encodes and decodes data symbols in dual domains is taught. Data packets are encoded, transmitted, and decoded during a plurality of symbol intervals on a...
6983011 Filter circuit  
In a filter circuit of the present invention, a partial quantization value is computed by a quantization circuit according to a spread code and others in a unit at an arbitrary stage, where an...
6982662 Method and apparatus for efficient conversion of signals using look-up table  
An apparatus and method for conversion of direct stream digital (DSD) signal samples to pulse code modulated (PCM) signal samples using a look-up table. The apparatus includes a first-in-first-out...
6980145 System and method for noise cancellation in a signal processing circuit  
A system and method for noise cancellation in a signal-processing circuit (e.g., an analog-to-digital converter circuit). Various aspects of the present invention may comprise inputting a first...
6980143 Scalable encoder and decoder for scaled stream  
A scalable encoder having a first encoder, a decoder and a second encoder includes, above that, a phase distorter to reduce a non-linear frequency-dependent phase distortion introduced by the first...
6980144 Method for reducing DAC resolution in multi-bit sigma delta analog-to digital converter (ADC)  
A method for reducing the resolution of a digital-to-analog converter in a multi-bit sigma-delta ADC is described. With the addition of digital sigma-delta modulators in the feedback path of a...
6977601 Low power current input delta-sigma ADC using injection FET reference  
A low power delta-sigma analog to digital converter 10 for converting current mode signals without an amplifier includes an integration capacitor 26, a comparator 30, and a first switch 24 ...
6975257 Sigma-delta modulation  
Sigma-delta modulation is provided, comprising feeding an input signal to a first SDM, subtracting the output of the first SDM from the input signal, filtering the output of the subtracting to...
6975255 Random interleaving dither for sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters  
A dithering method is provided for sigma-delta converters in a deep-submicron process. The dither is a random interleaving of quantizer thresholds levels. The random interleaving dither is more...
6975258 Circuit for direct digital delta-sigma conversion of variable electrical capacitance  
An electronic circuit for the direct conversion of a capacitive transducer signal to a digital delta-sigma bit stream is disclosed. The electronic circuit is comprised of two functional blocks, in...
6972704 Sigma-delta modulator with PWM output  
The present invention relates to a method for providing an improved generated arbitrary waveform using a sigma-delta modulator with pulse width modulation, said method comprising the steps of...
6972705 Signal processing system having an ADC delta-sigma modulator with single-ended input and feedback signal inputs  
Signal processing systems described herein include an analog-to-digital delta sigma modulator to process a single-ended input signal using a single-ended analog feedback reference signal. The delta...
6970123 Inductorless architecture for a switching amplifier  
A switching circuit for generating first and second output signals for differentially driving a load is described. The switching circuit is operable to enforce a minimum pulse width on each of the...
6970126 Variable capacitance switched capacitor input system and method  
A variable capacitance switched capacitor input system and method includes a differential integrator circuit having first and second input summing nodes and a variable sensing capacitor; one...
6970753 Storage and transmission of one-bit data  
Apparatus for storing or transmitting a one-bit digital signal comprises an input inverter for inverting a subset of the data bits of an input one-bit digital signal, to generate a bit-inverted...
6970503 Apparatus and method for converting analog signal to pulse-width-modulated signal  
A circuit for converting an analog signal to a discrete pulse-width-modulated (PWM) signal uses a delta-sigma amplifier and a discrete PWM stage to produce a discrete PWM output signal having lower...
6967608 Sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with truncation error cancellation in a multi-bit feedback digital-to-analog converter (DAC)  
A method for reducing the complexity of a multi-bit DAC in a sigma-delta ADC. The DAC resolution can be made to be less than that of the quantizer by canceling truncation error present in multi-bit...
6967607 Data converters with digitally filtered pulse width modulation output stages and methods and systems using the same  
A digital to analog converter including a noise shaping modulator for modulating an input digital data stream, a plurality of output elements for generating a plurality of intermediate data streams...
6967606 Loop filter for a continuous time sigma delta analog to digital converter  
A loop filter for a continuous time sigma delta analog to digital converter which converts an analog input signal into a digital output signal, said loop filter comprising an active analog filter...
6965336 Systems and methods of bidirectional communication across an isolation barrier  
A bi-directional isolation scheme is described in which digital data, including clock information, may be communicated bi-directionally across a single isolation barrier without requiring a phase...
6965339 Method and system for analog to digital conversion using digital pulse width modulation (PWM)  
A system and method for analog-to-digital conversion using digital pulse width modulation (PWM) is disclosed. The method and system according to the disclosed invention converts an analog input...
6965333 Circuit for using capacitor voltage divider in a delta-sigma digital-to-analog converter to generate reference voltage  
An improved circuit for a delta-sigma digital-to-analog converter comprises integrating operational amplifier, sampling capacitors, integrating capacitor, and a voltage divider consisting of a...
6965335 Methods for output edge-balancing in pulse width modulation systems and data converters using the same  
A method of performing digital to analog conversion includes generating a pulse width modulated data stream and another pulse width modulated data stream, encoding patterns of the pulse width...
6963297 Delta-sigma digital-to-analog converter assembly  
Systems and methods are provided for converting a digital signal into an analog signal. A digital-to-analog converter assembly comprises a delta-sigma modulator, a digital-to-analog converter, an...
6962436 Digitizing temperature measurement system and method of operation  
A digitizing temperature measurement system for providing a digital temperature measurement includes an excitation source for providing switched excitation currents to two or three temperature...
6958723 Method and apparatus for reducing noise in analog-to-digital converter devices  
An analog-to-digital converter apparatus has a plurality of stages. Each stage includes a residue amplifier having a first and second amplifier unit. Each of the amplifier units has a first input...
6956516 A/D conversion circuit, temperature-sensor circuit, integrated circuit, and method of adjusting the temperature-sensor circuit  
An A/D-conversion circuit is provided that includes: a counter, which outputs a count value CT; a voltage generation circuit, which generates a monotonically increasing or monotonically decreasing...
6956513 Error feedback structure for delta-sigma modulators with improved stability  
An error feedback circuit includes a first summer receiving an analog input signal and a feedback signal and outputting a summed signal. A quantizer receives the summed signal and outputs a...
6956514 Delta-sigma modulators with improved noise performance  
An integrator stage for use in a delta sigma modulator includes an operational amplifier, an integration capacitor coupling an output of the operational amplifier and a summing node at an input of...
6954161 Cascade delta-sigma modulator  
A delta-sigma modulation quantization loop, comprising an integration circuit for integrating the difference between an analog input signal and a feedback reference voltage, a local quantizer for...
6954159 Low distortion band-pass analog to digital converter with feed forward  
A low-distortion band-pass delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC), including an odd-phase sample and hold circuit coupled to a even-phase resonator, improves tolerance to mismatches between...
6954160 Filter for digitally processing an analog input signal with analog feedback  
A filter is described for digitally processing an analog input signal with analog feedback. In one example, the filter uses a topology similar to a second order universal filter block and includes...
6952176 Digital-to-analogue converter circuits  
This invention is generally concerned with digital-to-analogue converters and more particularly relates to techniques for reducing signal dependent loading of reference voltage sources used by...
6950049 Computer program product for performing digital-to-analog conversion  
The present invention is directed to a sigma-delta digital to analog converted (DAC) including a digital-sigma delta modulator, a decimation filter, and a multi-bit DAC. The digital sigma-delta...
6946983 Digital-to-analog converter having error correction  
The values X(n) input to a current-steering digital-to-analog converter ( 49 ) are modified ( 41 ) before the actual conversion to compensate for conversion errors of the digital-to-analog...
6943715 Bandpass sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter and mash-sigma-delta converter incorporating same  
The invention concerns a passband Sigma-Delta analog-to-digital converter comprising a first resonator and a second order second resonator, preferably of second order, whereof the respective...
6943717 Sigma delta class D architecture which corrects for power supply, load and H-bridge errors  
A sigma delta class D device that uses a low pass filter to smooth the output waveform and eliminate high frequency switching noise from the feedback value includes: a first summing node having a...
6943716 Variable rate sigma delta modulator  
A sigma delta circuit is provided having a sigma delta modulator configured to operate according to a first clock signal and a quantizer connected to the sigma delta modulator, where the quantizer...