Rong Y Wu

US Patent:

20150009059, Jan 8, 2015

Filed:

Sep 9, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/021735

Inventors:

- Irvine CA, US
Rong Wu - Irvine CA, US
Young Shin - Irvine CA, US
Karthik Raviprakash - Irvine CA, US
Tao Wang - Costa Mesa CA, US
Chia-Jen Hsu - Irvine CA, US
Tianwei Li - Irvine CA, US

Assignee:

Broadcom Corporation - Irvine CA

International Classification:

H03M 1/12

US Classification:

341155

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.