IP Library Granted Patent US 9,030,344
Granted Patent B2
US 9,030,344 · App. 14/021,735 · Granted May 12, 2015

System and method for integration of hybrid pipeline

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Patent No.
US 9,030,344
App. No.
14/021,735
Granted
May 12, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system includes a pipeline analog-to-digital converter as a first stage to process an input signal, and a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter as a second stage to process the input signal. The SAR analog-to-digital converter includes a power adjustment element to adjust a reference voltage of the SAR analog-to-digital converter to match a full scale voltage of the pipeline-analog-to-digital converter.

Claims (33)

1. A method, comprising:

responsive to a capacitance ratio, adjusting a successive approximation register (SAR) reference voltage of a SAR analog-to-digital converter to attempt to match a scale voltage of a pipeline analog-to-digital converter;

processing a most-significant bit of an input signal with the pipeline analog-to-digital converter; and

processing a least-significant bit of an input signal with the SAR analog-to-digital converter.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the capacitance ratio comprises a ratio of capacitance associated with a first capacitor and a second capacitor.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first capacitor is situated in parallel with the SAR analog-to-digital converter and the first capacitor is situated in series with the second capacitor.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising outputting a sampled version of the input signal from the pipeline analog-to-digital converter to the SAR analog-to-digital converter.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the SAR analog-to-digital converter comprises multiple interleaved SAR analog-to-digital converters.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the multiple interleaved SAR analog-to-digital converters determine multiple least significant bits.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising processing a portion of a second bit of the input signal with the SAR analog-to-digital converter, the second bit different from the least significant bit.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising applying the portion of the second bit in an error correction scheme.

9. A hybrid analog-to-digital converter comprising:

pipeline analog-to-digital converter circuitry comprising:

analog-to-digital converter circuitry configured to sample an input signal;

digital-to-analog converter circuitry configured to reconstruct a determined signal portion; and

a subtractor configured to determine a residual signal portion based on the reconstructed determined signal portion and the input signal; and

an interleaved analog-to-digital converter configured to determine a least significant bit, the interleaved analog-to-digital converter comprising:

a matching circuit configured to adjust a reference signal of the interleaved analog-to-digital converter based on a scale of the analog-to-digital converter circuitry.

10. The hybrid analog-to-digital converter of claim 9 , wherein the interleaved converter comprises a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter.

11. The hybrid analog-to-digital converter of claim 9 , wherein the matching circuit comprises a capacitor configured to adjust the reference signal.

12. The hybrid analog-to-digital converter of claim 11 , wherein the capacitor comprises a programmable capacitor and the interleaved analog-to-digital converter further comprises circuitry configured to calibrate the programmable capacitor.

13. The hybrid analog-to-digital converter of claim 9 , wherein to analog-to-digital converter element is further to determine a portion of a second bit, the portion of the second bit being associated with error correction.

14. A system, comprising:

a pipeline analog-to-digital converter as a first stage to process an input signal; and

a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter as a second stage to process the input signal, the SAR analog-to-digital converter including: power adjustment circuitry including a first capacitor characterized by a first capacitance and a second capacitor characterized by a second capacitance, the power adjustment circuitry configured to adjust a reference voltage of the SAR analog-to-digital converter to attempt match a scale voltage of the pipeline analog-to-digital converter responsive to first and second capacitances.

15. The system of claim 14 , where the first capacitor comprises a programmable capacitor.

16. The system of claim 14 , wherein the pipeline analog-to-digital converter processes a most-significant-bit of the input signal.

17. The system of claim 14 , wherein the SAR analog-to-digital converter is configured to process a least-significant bit of the input signal.

18. The system of claim 14 , wherein the pipeline analog-to-digital converter is configured to output a sampled input signal to the SAR analog-to-digital converter.

19. The system of claim 14 , wherein the reference voltage of the SAR analog-to-digital converter is characterized by a differential voltage between a full-scale voltage and a ground.

20. The system of claim 14 , wherein the SAR analog-to-digital converter is configured to:

sample a portion of a bit from the input signal; and

apply the portion of the bit to an error correction scheme.

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