US Patent Issued to XILINX on Sept. 23 for "Mitigating gain mismatch interference in analog-to-digital converter circuitry" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,036, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mitigating gain mismatch interference in analog-to-digital converter circuitry" was invented by Roswald Francis (Kildare, Ireland), Bob W. Verbruggen (Dublin) and Pedro Faria (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuitry includes channels that are interleaved with each other to generate output digital signals from input analog signals. A first channel includes sub-ADC circuitry, amplitude detection circuitry, and correction circuitry. Random chopping is applied by chopping circuitry at the input of the sub-ADC circuitry ...