US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Sept. 15 for "ADC offset DAC glitch suppression" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,950, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"ADC offset DAC glitch suppression" was invented by Chunkyun Seok (Cary, N.C.), Christopher George Moscone (Cary, N.C.) and Mark A. Summers (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit includes a digital calibration finite state machine to perform an offset calibration process during mission mode by iteratively adjusting bias currents within source follower buffers of the ADC circuit to compensate for offset errors. The ADC circuit also includes a current steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with ...