US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Sept. 2 for "Continuous-time delta-sigma modulator" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,363, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Continuous-time delta-sigma modulator" was invented by Yan-Hui Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yao-Ming Lu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Tai-Cheng Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Lung Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Sheng-Yen Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CT-DSM) includes a loop filter, a pipelined successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC), a feedback circuit, an excess loop delay (ELD) compensation circuit, and a logic circuit. The loop filter generates a first intermediate signal ...