Patents by Inventor Ruby van de Plassche

Ruby van de Plassche 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: 7324038
    Abstract: An N-bit analog to digital converter includes a reference ladder, a track-and-hold amplifier connected to an input voltage, a coarse ADC amplifier connected to a coarse capacitor at its input and having a coarse ADC reset switch controlled by a first clock phase of a two-phase clock, a fine ADC amplifier connected to a fine capacitor at its input and having a fine ADC reset switch controlled by a second clock phase of the two-phase clock, a switch matrix that selects a voltage subrange from the reference ladder for use by the fine ADC amplifier based on an output of the coarse ADC amplifier, and wherein the coarse capacitor is charged to a coarse reference ladder voltage during the first clock phase and connected to the T/H output during the second clock phase, wherein the fine capacitor is connected to a voltage subrange during the first clock phase and to the T/H output during the second clock phase, and an encoder that converts outputs of the coarse and fine ADC amplifiers to an N-bit output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Franciscus Maria Leonardus van der Goes, Jan Mulder, Christopher Michael Ward, Jan Roelof Westra, Ruby van de Plassche, Marcel Lugthart