Inventors:
Charles D. Thompson - Austin TX
Salvador R. Bernadas - Austin TX
Nicholas R. van Bavel - Austin TX
Eric J. Swanson - Buda TX
Assignee:
Crystal Semiconductor, Inc. - Austin TX
International Classification:
H03M 106
Abstract:
A calibration method and apparatus to calibrate for non-linearities in a multi-level delta-sigma modulator (12) includes a calibration multiplexer (10) on the input for selecting in a calibration mode a zero voltage for input to the delta-sigma modulator (12). The delta-sigma modulator (12) has three levels, +1, 0, -1, the +1 level input to a processor (32) and the -1 level input to a processor (34). The processor (34) has the output thereof input to an compensation circuit (14) that offsets the value generated by the -1 processor (34) by a coefficient. delta. The output of the compensation circuit (14) is then input to the minus input of a summation junction (36), which also receives the output of the processor (32), the output of summation junction (36) providing the digital output. The processors (32) and (34) are realized with a separate accumulator that switches between an associated filter coefficient and ground, the filter coefficient stored in a ROM (35). The. delta. coefficient is stored in a block (16) and is generated during a calibration cycle by a. delta.