Patents by Inventor Eric Fogelman

Eric Fogelman 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).

  • Patent number: 6816100
    Abstract: A differential-input flash analog-to-digital converter (ADC) uses digital common-mode rejection wherein the output sequences from two non-differential flash ADCs are differenced and further processed in the digital domain. Each of a pair of non-differential ADCs converts an associated one of two received voltage signals into a digital signal having N quantization levels, a subtractor digitally subtracts the two digital signals to produce a difference signal having 2N quantization levels, and a re-quantizer re-quantizes the difference signal to produce an N-level quantized representation of the difference signal. The flash ADC also effects comparator offset dynamic element matching to reduce the deleterious effects of ADC error resulting from the inevitable non-zero offset voltages of the comparators from which the each flash ADC is constructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Ian Galton, Eric Fogelman, Henrick T. Jensen