US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on Dec. 30 for "Noise-shaping converter with digital modulator" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,852, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Noise-shaping converter with digital modulator" was invented by Gang Yuan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an apparatus includes: a first feedback digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to receive a first feedback signal from a first successive approximation register (SAR) and output a first analog signal; a comparator to compare the first analog signal with a reference voltage; the first SAR to store a digital value based on the comparison and provide the first feedback signal to the first DAC; a second feedback DAC to receive ...