Coded data generation or conversion – Analog to or from digital conversion – Digital to analog conversion
Patent
1996-05-13
1998-05-05
Gaffin, Jeffrey A.
Coded data generation or conversion
Analog to or from digital conversion
Digital to analog conversion
341145, 341146, 341131, 341135, H03M 116
Patent
active
057481288
ABSTRACT:
A digital/analog quadratic converter (DACQ) composed by a pair of linear converters connected in cascade has a direct coupling of the output node of the first converter (DAC1) with a node of a R-2R type resistive network of the second converter (DAC2) corresponding to the LSB stage of the R-2R type resistive network. High impedance nodes, notably the input node of the second linear converter, are advantageously eliminated from the "current path" thus markedly reducing the problems of relatively long settling times of high impedance nodes (having intrinsically large parasitic capacitances associated therewith). The peculiar architecture of the quadratic converter provides also for a remarkable simplification of the circuit.
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Bruccoleri Melchiorre
Demicheli Marco
Patti Giuseppe
Pisati Valerio
Anderson Matthew S.
Formby Betty
Gaffin Jeffrey A.
Groover Robert
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.R.L.
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