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US 8,299,837 B1Granted
Integrator-based common mode stabilization method applied to pseudo-differential switched-capacitor circuit
AssigneeHimax Technologies Limited
InventorJin-Fu Lin
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Abstract
A pseudo-differential switched-capacitor circuit, which can be applied to various signal processing circuits, employs a floating sampling technique and an integrator feedback loop for isolating a common mode voltage disturbance and restraining a charge injection effect. The pseudo-differential switched-capacitor circuit includes a differential floating sampling circuit that has a pseudo-differential architecture, and an integrator for reducing the charge injection effect within the differential floating sampling circuit.
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A pseudo-differential switched-capacitor circuit, comprising:
- a differential floating sampling (DFS) circuit that has a pseudo-differential architecture, the DFS circuit having a differential positive input and a negative input, and the DFS circuit comprising:
- a positive path including a first single-ended amplifier and a first capacitor, wherein the first capacitor is coupled between an input and a differential positive output of the first single-ended amplifier;
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- a negative path including a second single-ended amplifier and a second capacitor, wherein the second capacitor is coupled between an input and a differential negative output of the second single-ended amplifier;
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- an integrator sampling a common-mode voltage disturbance at the differential positive output and the differential negative output during a amplifying phase of the DFS circuit and controllably feeding an integrator output back to inputs of the first single-ended amplifier and the second single-ended amplifier of the DFS circuit during a sampling phase of the DFS circuit, thereby stabilizing an output common-mode level of the differential positive output and differential negative output of the DFS circuit at a desirable level.
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