Patents by Inventor Alasdair Alexander

Alasdair Alexander has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130015916
    Abstract: An auto-zero amplifier includes a main amplifier for amplifying an input signal; the main amplifier receives an offset-correction signal for cancelling an offset at a first common-mode level of the input signal. At the first common-mode level, the offset-correction signal is based on a first value stored using a first offset-storage element. When a change is detected in the input common-mode from the first level to a second level, the first offset-storage element is switched out and a second offset-storage element, having a second value based on the second common-mode level, is switched in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Quan Wan, Alasdair Alexander
  • Publication number: 20070001758
    Abstract: A multiple differential amplifier system and method for transconductance mismatch compensation which in a first phase connects to a differential switched input of a null amplifier, the differential signal input of the main amplifier, inverted, for compensating for offset errors and transconductance mismatches in the null amplifier; and storing in a null storage device connected to an auxiliary input of the null amplifier the output of the null amplifier representing the compensation for the offset error and transconductance mismatch of the null amplifier; and in a second phase connecting the differential switched input of the null amplifier to the differential feedback input of the main amplifier and storing in the main storage device connected to an auxiliary input of the main amplifier the output of the null amplifier representing the compensation for the main amplifier offset error and transconductance mismatch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Alasdair Alexander, Chau Tran