US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Aug. 12 for "Pipeline analog-to-digital converter and calibration method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,456, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Pipeline analog-to-digital converter and calibration method thereof" was invented by Wei-Jyun Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kai-Yue Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calibration method of a pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that includes a residue amplifier includes the following steps: (A) generating an offset voltage; (B) adjusting a first input voltage of the residue amplifier according to the offset voltage and a reference digital code; (C) converting an output voltage of the residue amplifier into a second digital co...