Analog to digital converter elements and methods for using such
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1. An analog-to-digital converter, the analog-to-digital converter comprising:
- a preceding analog-to-digital converter stage, wherein the preceding analog-to-digital converter stage is a 2.3 bit analog to digital converter stage, and wherein the preceding analog-to-digital converter stage provides an encoded word output and an analog residue output; and
a subsequent analog-to-digital converter stage, wherein the subsequent analog-to-digital converter stage provides an unencoded word output, and wherein the subsequent analog-to-digital converter stage is electrically coupled to the analog residue output of the preceding analog-to-digital converter stage.
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Various systems and methods for converting a signal from the analog domain to the digital domain are disclosed herein. As one example, an analog-to-digital converter is disclosed that includes two pipelined analog-to-digital converter stages. The first analog-to-digital converter stage provides an encoded word output and the second analog-to-digital converter stage provides an unencoded word output. A summation device is provided to aggregate the encoded word output with the unencoded word output.
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1. An analog-to-digital converter, the analog-to-digital converter comprising:
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a preceding analog-to-digital converter stage, wherein the preceding analog-to-digital converter stage is a 2.3 bit analog to digital converter stage, and wherein the preceding analog-to-digital converter stage provides an encoded word output and an analog residue output; and a subsequent analog-to-digital converter stage, wherein the subsequent analog-to-digital converter stage provides an unencoded word output, and wherein the subsequent analog-to-digital converter stage is electrically coupled to the analog residue output of the preceding analog-to-digital converter stage. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for implementing an analog-to-digital converter, wherein the method comprises:
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providing a preceding analog-to-digital converter stage, wherein the preceding analog-to-digital converter stage is a 2.3 bit analog-to-digital converter stage, and wherein the preceding analog-to-digital converter stage provides an encoded word output; providing a subsequent analog-to-digital converter stage, wherein the subsequent analog-to-digital converter stage provides an unencoded word output; providing a summation device; electrically coupling a residue output of the preceding analog-to-digital converter stage to an input port of the subsequent analog-to-digital converter stage; and
adding the encoded word output with the unencoded word output in the summation device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. A pipelined analog-to-digital converter, the pipelined analog-to-digital converter comprising:
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a two bit, four comparator analog-to-digital converter stage, wherein the two bit, four comparator analog-to-digital converter stage provides an encoded word output representing five successive levels, and wherein the two bit, four comparator analog-to-digital converter stage provides an analog residue output; and a two bit analog-to-digital converter stage, wherein the two bit analog-to-digital converter receives the analog residue output and provides a two bit unencoded word representative of the analog residue output. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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