A plurality of devices of a circuit perform a function associated with the circuit. A compensation module obtains a temperature value and/or core voltage value associated with the circuit and uses the temperature value and/or the core voltage value to adjust at least one device of the plurality of devices. The adjustment may include using one or more source resisters connected to the at least one device of the plurality of devices to adjust a device voltage threshold. The plurality of devices may perform analog to digital conversion, and the compensation module may generate a digital offset value using the temperature value and/or the core voltage value and add or subtract the digital offset value from an unadjusted digital output value to compensate for a change in the temperature value and/or the core voltage value.

A physical field generator generates a magnetic field or an electric field corresponding to an input signal. An optical quantum sensor part generates light corresponding to the magnetic field or the electric field by a sensing member and converts the light into an electrical signal as a sensor signal by a photoelectric element. An analog/digital converter digitizes the sensor signal. Further, the optical quantum sensor part performs a quantum operation with respect to the sensing member mentioned above and causes the sensing member mentioned above to generate the light mentioned above corresponding to the magnetic field or the electric field mentioned above.

Circuitry is disclosed herein that dynamically (temperature-invariant and voltage-invariant) adjusts the Ron of switches in a resistive Nyquist-rate digital to analog converter (DAC) to thereby reduce DAC nonlinearity errors and improve INL results of greater than 16b. Consistent with the present disclosure, the DAC includes an R-2R ladder in which each bit corresponds to a switch. A control circuit is provided for generating signals applied to the gate of the switch to cause the on-resistances of the switch to be a particular value, such that the on-resistance of the switch plus the sum of two resistors, one having the resistance R, and the other having a resistance R is equivalent to the resistance of the 2R-size resistors or twice the resistance of the R-sized resistors in the ladder.

In one aspect a system is provided. The system a plurality of flash compare modules to output a set of unordered output signals based on an analog input signal; a plurality of device selection modules that receive the unordered output signals and generate ordered signals representing the analog input; and a temperature and voltage compensation module for receiving one or more of temperature and voltage signals from at least a temperature and voltage sensor module that senses one or more of temperature and voltage values that are used to compensate for changes in output signals caused by changes in one or more of die temperature and core voltage.

In one aspect a system is provided. The system a plurality of flash compare modules to output a set of unordered output signals based on an analog input signal; a plurality of device selection modules that receive the unordered output signals and generate ordered signals representing the analog input; and a temperature and voltage compensation module for receiving one or more of temperature and voltage signals from at least a temperature and voltage sensor module that senses one or more of temperature and voltage values that are used to compensate for changes in output signals caused by changes in one or more of die temperature and core voltage.

A current steering digital-to-analog converter includes a plurality of current cells each including a current source circuit and a current switch circuit to selectively output a current in response to a first input signal corresponding to a digital signal; a dummy current cell including a dummy current source circuit and a dummy current switch circuit to output a current in response to a second input signal; and a current switch bias circuit coupled to the dummy current cell to track a first voltage of an internal node of the dummy current source circuit and configured to generate a first bias voltage applied to the current switch circuit.

Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for configuring links or switches that connect analog circuit elements. These analog circuit elements may be connected to a plurality of sensors that may sense different types of data. For example, these sensors may sense acoustic data, electromagnetic (EM) data, temperature, pressure, and possibly other metrics that may be located in a wellbore of an oil or gas well. These analog circuits may be configured as needed (e.g., on-the-fly) to perform optimized types of computations that may include the solving of differential equations. Examples of analog circuits that may be incorporated into a sensing system include yet are not limited to operational amplifier circuits or memcomputing devices, other components, or combinations thereof. Configured analog circuits may be coupled to digital electronics that perform other functions.

Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for configuring links or switches that connect analog circuit elements. These analog circuit elements may be connected to a plurality of sensors that may sense different types of data. For example, these sensors may sense acoustic data, electromagnetic (EM) data, temperature, pressure, and possibly other metrics that may be located in a wellbore of an oil or gas well. These analog circuits may be configured as needed (e.g., on-the-fly) to perform optimized types of computations that may include the solving of differential equations. Examples of analog circuits that may be incorporated into a sensing system include yet are not limited to operational amplifier circuits or memcomputing devices, other components, or combinations thereof. Configured analog circuits may be coupled to digital electronics that perform other functions.

A system includes: a first device; and a second device coupled to the first device. The second device has a receiver. The receiver has a comparator and a controller. The comparator has an adjustment terminal. The controller has an input and an output. The output of the controller is coupled to the adjustment terminal of the comparator. The controller is configured to: obtain an offset estimation model; receive an input voltage at its input; determine a comparator offset responsive to the offset estimation model and the input voltage; and provide an adjustment control signal to its output responsive to the determined comparator offset.

A temperature stabilization technique for a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The DAC is kept operating while a load, for example an analog computer, is disconnected from the DAC in order to reduce temperature changes that otherwise occur when the DAC is idle. The DAC may be supplied with adjusted input to compensate for changes in dissipation caused by the removal of the load.