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Closed loop amplification with high throughput performance
   
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US Patent 6847321
Issued Date
January 25, 2005
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Using an operational amplifier with a low gain in a closed loop amplifier circuit, and correcting for errors (i.e., deviation from the output of an ideal closed loop amplifier using an operational amplifier with infinite gain) that would result from the use of the operational amplifier with low gain. In an embodiment implemented in relation to an analog to digital converter (ADC), a mathematical operation is performed on the digital code(s) generated by the ADC to generate a corrected code corresponding to an analog sample.
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Published
January 25, 2005
Application Number
10/706,030
Filed
November 13, 2003
US Classification
341/156   341/120
Int'l Classification
H03M   1/10   (20060101)   H03F   1/34   (20060101)   H03M   1/12   (20060101)  
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341/156   341/120   341/155   341/161   341/154   341/118   341/162  
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