Integrating analog-to-digital converter and semiconductor device
AssigneeRenesas Electronics Corporation
InventorsYoichi Iizuka, Fukashi Morishita
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AssigneeRenesas Electronics Corporation
InventorsYoichi Iizuka, Fukashi Morishita
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An integrating Analog-to-digital converter has a global counter that outputs a counter code signal including a multiphase signal. It also has a column circuit including: a ramp wave generation circuit outputting a ramp wave voltage; a comparator comparing the ramp wave voltage with a pixel voltage; and a latch circuit latching the counter code signal at output inversion timing of the comparator. An output value of the latch circuit is used as a digital conversion output value per the column circuit. The counter has a phase division circuit outputting, as an LSB of the digital conversion output value of the integrating analog-to-digital converter, a phase division signal to the latch circuit, the phase division signal dividing a phase of the counter code signal. The phase division circuit is arranged to a plurality of column circuits, and the LSB is shared by a plurality of phase division circuits.
An integrating analog-to-digital converter comprising:
A semiconductor device including a column circuit driven by a counter code signal, which is generated by a clock generator, being transmitted across the column circuit in a previous stage, a plurality of column circuits composed of the column circuit being connected in parallel, the semiconductor device comprising:
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