Electrical transmission or interconnection systems – Personnel safety or limit control features – Interlock
Patent
1990-06-15
1991-09-10
Mullins, James B.
Electrical transmission or interconnection systems
Personnel safety or limit control features
Interlock
350 9, 350253, 350261, 350311, H03K 522, H03F 345
Patent
active
050476653
ABSTRACT:
A dual successive approximation analog-to-digital converter, including circuitry for generating separate reference voltages for each analog-to-digital converter, is integrated onto a single semiconductor chip. A single successive approximation register including a 19 bit shift register and two 18 bit latches and associated gating circuitry operates to produce two sets of 18 successive approximation numbers, one supplied as successive digital inputs to a CDAC of one of the analog-to-digital converters and the other set of successive approximation numbers being applied as digital inputs to a CDAC of the other analog-to-digital converter. A CMOS comparator includes two high speed, low gain differential amplifier stages, the first including cascode MOSFETs to provide a high power supply rejection. A pair of auto-zeroing capacitors and a pair of auto-zeroing MOSFETs operate on the outputs of the second differential amplifier to reduce input offset voltage, achieving high speed, low noise operation in a small amount of semiconductor chip area. The auto-zeroed output is supplied to the input of a two stage differential amplifier, the outputs of which also are auto-zeroed and applied to a differential CMOS latch, thereby providing a high speed, low noise, low offset CMOS comparator.
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Burr-Brown Corporation
Mullins James B.
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