Area integrator servo demodulator with on-chip CMOS analog-to-di

Details Area integrator servo demodulator with on-chip CMOS analog-to-di Area integrator servo demodulator with on-chip CMOS analog-to-di

1996-02-29

1997-08-26

Gaffin, Jeffrey A.

Coded data generation or conversion

Analog to or from digital conversion

Analog to digital conversion

341163, 341156, H03M 138

Patent

active

056614837

ABSTRACT:
An integrated circuit for a disk drive that includes a sucessive-approximation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a two-stage digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and may also include a servo demodulator. The circuit may be implemented in a basic or pure-digital CMOS chip because the ADC includes no precision analog elements such as resistors and capacitors. The first DAC stage operates on the most significant group of bits, and the second DAC stage operates on the least significant group of bits. The DAC includes a reference current source. The first DAC stage is a multiplying DAC that multiplies the reference current in response to its digital input, and the second stage is a dividing DAC that divides the reference current in response to its input. The DAC also includes a current summer, such as a resistor, that receives the output current of each stage and provides the voltage that corresponds to the sum of the currents to a comparator. The comparator output controls a successive-approximation register. The circuit of this invention is suitable for use in implementing an Area Integrating Servo Demodulator (AISD) for detecting head position information in a disk drive servo signal without precision analog components.

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