A modulator includes a first integrator which has first and second capacitors and integrates an analog input signal and a feedback analog signal, a second integrator which has third and fourth capacitors and integrates an output signal of the first integrator, a differential amplifier which has input and output terminals switched and connected via a switch circuit to either the first and second capacitors or the third and fourth capacitors, a chopper switch which switches the polarity of the input terminal and the polarity of the output terminal, to both of which the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected, a quantizer which compares an added signal and a reference signal to output a digital value, and a digital/analog converter which outputs the feedback analog signal corresponding to the digital value.

An offset compensation circuit comprises an error signal generation block arranged for receiving an input phase and an output phase, and for generating an error signal indicative of an error between the input phase and the output phase. Means are provided for combining the error signal with an offset compensation signal, yielding an offset compensated signal. A loop filter is arranged for receiving the offset compensated signal and for outputting the output phase. An offset compensation block is arranged for receiving the output phase and for determining the offset compensation signal. The offset compensation signal comprises at least a contribution proportional to a periodic function of the output phase.

Disclosed examples include a segmented DAC circuit, including an R-2R resistor DAC to convert a first subword to a first analog output signal, an interpolation DAC to offset the first analog output signal based on an N-bit digital interpolation code signal to provide the analog output signal, and a Sigma Delta modulator to modulate a modulator code to provide the N-bit digital interpolation code signal that represents a value of second and third subwords.

Disclosed examples include a segmented DAC circuit, including an R-2R resistor DAC to convert a first subword to a first analog output signal, an interpolation DAC to offset the first analog output signal based on an N-bit digital interpolation code signal to provide the analog output signal, and a Sigma Delta modulator to modulate a modulator code to provide the N-bit digital interpolation code signal that represents a value of second and third subwords.

A modulator includes a first integrator which has first and second capacitors and integrates an analog input signal and a feedback analog signal, a second integrator which has third and fourth capacitors and integrates an output signal of the first integrator, a differential amplifier which has input and output terminals switched and connected via a switch circuit to either the first and second capacitors or the third and fourth capacitors, a chopper switch which switches the polarity of the input terminal and the polarity of the output terminal, to both of which the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected, a quantizer which compares an added signal and a reference signal to output a digital value, and a digital/analog converter which outputs the feedback analog signal corresponding to the digital value.

Techniques to increase a data throughput rate of a filter circuit by preloading selectable memory circuits of the filter circuit with reference data, sampling input data at an input of the filter circuit, combining the sampled input data with the preloaded reference data, and generating a filter output based on the combined sampled input data and preloaded reference data.

Disclosed examples include a segmented DAC circuit, including an R-2R resistor DAC to convert a first subword to a first analog output signal, an interpolation DAC to offset the first analog output signal based on an N-bit digital interpolation code signal to provide the analog output signal, and a Sigma Delta modulator to modulate a modulator code to provide the N-bit digital interpolation code signal that represents a value of second and third subwords.

An example SC integrator can include first and second sampling capacitors, an amplifier, an integrating capacitor, coupled at least to an output of the amplifier, and a switching arrangement. The SC integrator can be configured for adding (i.e., integrating in the integrating capacitor) sign-inverted samples of a flicker noise of the amplifier at one or more cycles of a master clock and can be configured for keeping the time distance/delay between those samples relatively small across a range of master clock frequencies.

A processing system, and associated input device and method are disclosed suitable for reducing a receiver size within the input device. The processing system comprises a delta-sigma modulator comprising one or more input nodes configured to receive a signal based on a sensor signal received from at least a first sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes. The delta-sigma modulator further comprises an integrator coupled with the one or more input nodes and configured to produce an integration signal, a quantizer coupled with an output of the integrator and configured to quantize the integration signal, and a feedback digital-to-analog converter (DAC) controlled based by the quantizer. The processing system further comprises a digital filter coupled with an output of the delta-sigma modulator and configured to mitigate a quantization noise of the quantizer.

A delta-sigma modulation type A/D converter includes: a capacitively coupled amplifier having a sampling capacitor, a feedback capacitor, and an amplifier; a correlated double sampling type first integrator as a first-stage integrator, which is connected to the capacitively coupled amplifier without a switch; a second integrator arranged after the first integrator; a quantizer arranged after the second integrator and quantizing an output of the second integrator; and an D/A converter that D/A-converts an output of the quantizer and feeds back to any one of the capacitively coupled amplifier, the first integrator, and the second integrator.