US 12,301,249 B2
Operating an analog-to-digital converter device
Muhammed Bolatkale, Delft (NL); Lucien Johannes Breems, Waalre (NL); Pierluigi Cenci, Helmond (NL); Shagun Bajoria, Eindhoven (NL); and Mohammed Abo Alainein, Rotterdam (NL)
Assigned to NXP B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by NXP B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on May 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/310,184.
Claims priority of application No. 22171861 (EP), filed on May 5, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0361781 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H03M 1/14 (2006.01); H03M 1/06 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03M 1/16 (2006.01); H03M 1/66 (2006.01); H03M 1/74 (2006.01)
CPC H03M 1/14 (2013.01) [H03M 1/0673 (2013.01); H03M 1/12 (2013.01); H03M 1/662 (2013.01); H03M 1/164 (2013.01); H03M 1/742 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An analog-to-digital converter, ADC, device, comprising:
a first converter stage, comprising
a first digital-to-analog converter, DAC, comprising at least two first unit elements each with a first unit element value; and
a second converter stage, comprising
a second DAC, comprising at least two second unit elements each with a second unit element value;
a control device, coupled to the first DAC and the second DAC and configured to:
swap at least one of the first unit element values with at least one of the second unit element values to obtain corresponding third unit element values and forth unit element values.