A pipelined ADC that does not wait for the residue of a signal to settle to be delivered to the next stage of the pipeline, and thus passes signals to subsequent stages at faster than conventional speeds. A pipelined ADC is used that processes signals representing the boundaries of the search space. Thus, each stage does not necessarily receive the signal as pre-processed by the prior stage, but rather the search space boundaries as pre-processed by the prior stage. Reducing the “search space” of the ADC is equivalent to creating the residues in each step of a pipeline as in the prior art. An ADC operating in this fashion operates without error even if the residual search space boundary outputs from one state are presented to the next stage before the outputs have settled, and can run faster for a given power and bandwidth.

Disclosed examples include pipeline ADC, balancing circuits and methods to balance a load of a reference circuit to reduce non-linearity and settling effects for a reference voltage signal, in which balancing capacitors are connected to a voltage source in a pipeline stage ADC sample time period to precharge the balancing capacitors using a voltage above the reference voltage, and a selected set of the precharged balancing capacitors is connected to provide charge to the output of the reference circuit during the second time period.

A pipelined ADC system comprising: a first ADC stage comprising a trainable neural network layer and configured to receive an analog input signal, and convert it into a first n-bit digital output representing said analog input signal; a DAC circuit comprising a trainable neural network layer and configured to receive said first n-bit digital output, and convert it into an analog output signal representing said first n-bit digital output; and a second ADC stage comprising a trainable neural network layer and configured to receive a residue analog input signal of said analog input signal, and convert it into a second n-bit digital output representing said residue analog input signal; wherein said first and second n-bit digital outputs are combined to generate a combined digital output representing said analog input signal.

A pipelined ADC system comprising: a first ADC stage comprising a trainable neural network layer and configured to receive an analog input signal, and convert it into a first n-bit digital output representing said analog input signal; a DAC circuit comprising a trainable neural network layer and configured to receive said first n-bit digital output, and convert it into an analog output signal representing said first n-bit digital output; and a second ADC stage comprising a trainable neural network layer and configured to receive a residue analog input signal of said analog input signal, and convert it into a second n-bit digital output representing said residue analog input signal; wherein said first and second n-bit digital outputs are combined to generate a combined digital output representing said analog input signal.

The present disclosure provides asynchronous successive approximation register analog-to-digital convener (ASAR ADC) circuits and signal conversion method thereof. An exemplary ASAR AC circuit includes a sample/hold circuit configured to input a first analog signal and output a second analog signal; a digital-to-analog converter circuit configured to output a third analog signal; a first voltage comparison circuit configured to respond to a valid level of a latch signal, and output a first logic level and a second logic level; a first logic circuit configured to respond to a valid level of a flag signal, and identify a comparison result of the first voltage comparison circuit and output the first digit signal; and a pulse generation circuit configured to generate the latch signal and the flag signal with a generation time of the valid levels independently from the first logic level and the second logic level.

A converter may include multiple converter stages connected in series. Each converter stage may receive a clock signal and an analog input signal, and may generate an analog output signal and a digital output signal. Each converter stages may include an encoder generating the digital output signal, a decoder generating a reconstructed signal, a delaying converter generating a delayed signal, and an amplifier generating a residue signal, wherein the delayed signal may be a continuous current signal.

A converter may include multiple converter stages connected in series. Each converter stage may receive a clock signal and an analog input signal, and may generate an analog output signal and a digital output signal. Each converter stages may include an encoder generating the digital output signal, a decoder generating a reconstructed signal, a delaying converter generating a delayed signal, and an amplifier generating a residue signal, wherein the delayed signal may be a continuous current signal.

Devices and methods that aim to improve flicker noise rejection in switched-capacitor (SC) integrators are disclosed. An example SC integrator includes a first and a second sampling capacitors, an amplifier, an integrating capacitor, coupled at least to an output of the amplifier, and a switching arrangement. By adding (i.e., integrating in the integrating capacitor) sign-inverted samples of a flicker noise of the amplifier at every clock cycle of a master clock and by keeping the time distance/delay between those samples relatively small regardless of the master clock frequency, such a SC integrator may provide improvements in terms of rejecting the flicker noise of the amplifier.

The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of analog or digital-analog hybrid integrated circuits, and relates to a high-speed SAR_ADC digital logic circuit, in particular to a high-speed digital logic circuit for SAR_ADC and a sampling adjustment method. The digital logic circuit includes a comparator, a logic control unit parallel to the comparator, and a capacitor array DAC. The comparator and the logic control unit are simultaneously triggered by a clock signal. The comparator outputs a valid comparison result Dp/Dn, the logic control unit outputs a corresponding rising edge signal, the rising edge signal is slightly later than Dp/Dn output by the comparator through setting a delay match, Dp/Dn is captured by the corresponding rising edge signal, thereby settling a capacitor array. The present disclosure eliminates the disadvantage of the improper settling of the capacitor array of the traditional parallel digital logic.

The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of analog or digital-analog hybrid integrated circuits, and relates to a high-speed SAR_ADC digital logic circuit, in particular to a high-speed digital logic circuit for SAR_ADC and a sampling adjustment method. The digital logic circuit includes a comparator, a logic control unit parallel to the comparator, and a capacitor array DAC. The comparator and the logic control unit are simultaneously triggered by a clock signal. The comparator outputs a valid comparison result Dp/Dn, the logic control unit outputs a corresponding rising edge signal, the rising edge signal is slightly later than Dp/Dn output by the comparator through setting a delay match, Dp/Dn is captured by the corresponding rising edge signal, thereby settling a capacitor array. The present disclosure eliminates the disadvantage of the improper settling of the capacitor array of the traditional parallel digital logic.