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• This invention relates generally to operational amplifier circuits and more particularly to an operational amplifier circuit that is selectively reconfigured as a filter, a sample and hold circuit, and a comparator.
• operational amplifiers are used in a variety of circuits.
• One application of an operational amplifier is in a filter circuit whereby low frequency poles are effected by the use of external components.
• Operational amplifiers are also used to sample a signal onto a feedback capacitor and temporarily hold the signal.
• Such circuits are known as sample and hold circuits and are used to transfer the charge produced by the sampled signal to a capacitance storage device.
• Another typical application of an operational amplifier is in a comparator circuit in which the difference between two input signals is amplified. Comparators are utilized extensively in analog to digital and digital to analog conversion circuits. Disadvantages in the prior art are evident when more than one of these operational amplifier circuits is desired in a single integrated circuit application. Typically, separate operational amplifiers are used for each circuit application.
• each operational amplifier adds its own offset error into the system, and offset compensation circuits increase the circuit's size.
• external components such as sample and hold capacitors and coupling capacitors have generally been required.
• the prior art tended to dedicate each operational amplifier to specific circuit functions.
• An object of the present invention is to provide an operational amplifier circuit which may be selectively reconfigured to provide several circuit functions. Another object of the present invention is to provide a circuit having a single operational amplifier which selectively operates as a filter, a sample and hold circuit, a comparator and a circuit which can charge an output capacitance. A further object of the present invention is to provide a multiple function operational amplifier circuit fabricated using switched capacitor techniquesin a standard CMOS process.
• an operational amplifier with an AC coupled input and a feedback capacitor which stores an input signal.
• Switched capacitance means may be selectively coupled between the output and the inverting input of the operational amplifier to simulate a load resistance and create a filter by effecting a frequency pole.
• the value of the switched capacitor determines, in part, the frequency range of the operational amplifier filter.
• switching means may be used to transfer the charge to an output capacitance such as a digital to analog converter (DAC).
• DAC digital to analog converter
• the charge on the output capacitance may be modified while making an A/D or a D/A conversion and then transferred to the input of the operational amplifier which now operates as a comparator to compare the transferred charge with a reference voltage.
• the inputs of the operational amplifier are selectively reversed to nullify the offset error.
• Figure 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating one preferred embodiment of the invention.
• Figure 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating one preferred embodiment of the digital to analog converter.
• Figure 3 is a graphic timing diagram for the schematic embodiment shown in Figures 1 and 2.
• the filter-codec circuit 10 is comprised generally of a switched capacitor multiple function operational amplifier portion 12, a ladder switched capacitive digital to analog converter (DAC) portion 14, and a receive filter portion 16 which interfaces with the DAC portion 14.
• the circuit 10 is capable of receiving and storing an analog signal, V IN , while simultaneously filtering the signal.
• the signal V IN may De transferred to the DAC portion 14 and converted to a digital output by utilizing the operational amplifier portion 12 as a comparator.
• An analog to digital (A/D) conversion may be interrupted at any time and the DAC portion 14 discharged and utilized to perform a digital to analog (D/A) conversion. After a D/A conversion has been made, the A/D conversion may be resumed.
• the circuit 10 is particularly useful for PCM voice encoding and decoding because the two functions may be asynchronous.
• operational amplifier portion 12 has an operational amplifier 18 with its non-inverting and inverting inputs connected to a reference voltage, say analog ground V AG , via switches 20 and 22, respectively.
• a first plate of feedback capacitor 24 is connected to the inverting input of the operational amplifier 18 via a switch 26 and a second plate of the capacitor 24 is connected to the output of the operational amplifier 18 via a switch 28.
• An input capacitor 32 provides AC coupling of an input signal V IN to the inverting input of the operational amplifier 18 via the switch 26 and the passband gain K of the operational amplifier portion 12 is approximately equal to the 'ratio of capacitors 32 and 24.
• all the switches are conventional CMOS transmission gates which are constructed to be enabled or closed when a clock signal, applied to the control inputs thereof by a clock generator 30, is in a high state, and disabled or open when the clock signal is in a low state.
• CMOS transmission gates which are constructed to be enabled or closed when a clock signal, applied to the control inputs thereof by a clock generator 30, is in a high state, and disabled or open when the clock signal is in a low state.
• a switch 34 connects the first plate of feedback capacitor 24 to a first plate of a switched capacitor 36
• a switch 38 connects the second plate of the feedback capacitor 24 to the first plate of the switched capacitor 36.
• the second plate of the switched capacitor 36 is connected to the reference V AG .
• the switches 34 and 38 are controlled by signals E and D, respectively, and alternately switch the capacitor 36 from the inverting input to the output of the operational amplifier 18.
• the value of the capacitor 36 determines, in part, the location of a high pass pole of the operational amplifier portion 12 of the circuit 10, permitting the filtering of the input signal V IN while it is being sampled onto the feedback capacitor 24.
• the DAC portion 14 has a first input terminal which is selectively coupled to a first reference voltage, ⁇ V ref , via a switch 40; a second input terminal which is selectively coupled to the output of the operational amplifier portion 12 or a second reference voltage, V AG , via switches 42 and 43, respectively; and an output terminal selectively coupled to the second reference voltage, V AG , the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier 18 or the input of the receive filter portion 16 via switches 44, 45 and 46, respectively.
• the DAC portion 14 can be represented as an unswitched capacitor 47 and a switched capacitor 48.
• the first plates of the capacitors 47 and 48 may be selectively coupled via a DAC switch 49 to form the effective first plate of the DAC portion 14, while the second plates thereof are coupled together to form the second plate of the DAC portion 14.
• switches 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 49 are controlled by signals H, F, F, G, C, I and H, respectively.
• the input sample KV IN can be transferred onto the DAC portion 14 as it is being sampled onto the feedback capacitor 24, if, as shown in Figure 3, the signals F and G are simultaneously in the high state and the signal H is in the low state.
• the operational amplifier portion 12 another function of the operational amplifier portion 12 is to charge the DAC portion 14 to the input sample KV IN preparatory to converting the analog input signal into a digital signal. If it may be necessary for the DAC portion 14 to be charged from the feedback capacitor 24 relatively long after a sample is placed thereon, switches 26 and 28 should be compensated switches to isolate the charged capacitor 24 and prevent parasitic leakage paths from leaking part of the sampled charge off of the feedback capacitor 24. In addition, it should be recognized that the offset voltage of the operational amplifier 18 will be charged onto the DAC portion 14 along with the input signal sample.
• the operational amplifier 18 may be reconfigured as a comparator for use in an A/D conversion. For example, if switches 43 and 45 are enabled via signals F and C, respectively, while switches 42 and 44 are disabled via signals F and G, respectively, then the voltage transferred onto DAC portion 14 by the operational amplifier portion 12 will be translated relative to the second reference voltage V AG . Of course, the stored offset voltage will also be translated by the switching action, but will now appear as an error of opposite polarity.
• the operational amplifier 18 By switching the inverting input of the operational amplifier 18 from the feedback capacitor 24 to the second reference voltage V AG and the non-inverting input from the second reference V AG to the output terminal of the DAC portion 14, the operational amplifier 18 will be connected as a comparator and will provide an output indicative of the difference between the voltages on the inputs thereof. Note that the offset voltage stored on the DAC portion 14 is now present as a bias on the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier so that the offset voltage of the operational amplifier 18 will be automatically cancelled.
• the DAC portion 14 can be discharged and used to perform the D/A conversion.
• switches 42 and 44 may be enabled by signals F and G, respectively, to discharge the DAC 14.
• switches 40 and 49 may be enabled by signals H and H, respectively, to charge the DAC portion 14 to a percentage of the first reference ⁇ V ref representing the analog equivalent of a digital input which is being converted.
• the input sample KV IN may again be charged onto the DAC portion 14 as previously detailed and the A/D conversion restarted where it was interrupted.
• one operational amplifier 18 has been used for a variety of circuit functions.
• the operational amplifier portion 12 may be conveniently fabricated as a monolithic integrated circuit which requires no external components to perform each of the described circuit functions.
• the DAC portion 14 of Figure 1 is comprised of two DAC sections, a capacitive or C DAC section 50 and a resistive or R DAC section 52.
• DACs of this form are commonly called stacked DACS and find frequent application in pulse code modulation (PCM) to make use of companding (compression/expansion) which permits an 8-bit binary code to cover a greater dynamic range than otherwise possible.
• PCM pulse code modulation
• companding compression/expansion
• Two internationally known companded codes are the Mu-255 compression law and the segmented
• the format of the 8-bit companded PCM word is for the first bit to indicate the sign of the voice signal, the second through fourth bits are chord bits which, with the sign bit, indicate which one of the sixteen chords the signal is in, and the fifth through eighth bits are step bits which indicate which one of the sixteen steps the signal corresponds to.
• the C DAC section 50 includes a unit capacitor 54 and eight rank ordered capacitors 56 through 70 which are effectively binarily weighted by the ratio 2 n , where n equals 0-7 for capacitors 56-70, respectively.
• the capacitors 54-70 each have a first and a second plate, with the second plates being coupled to the output terminal of the DAC portion 14.
• a dividing capacitor 72 is interposed between the second plates of capacitors 54-62 and the second plates of capacitors 64-70, to reduce the physical size of the capacitors 64-70 relative to capacitors 54-62 and eliminate problems associated with large ratios which t ⁇ end to be imprecise.
• the dividing capacitor 72 is used to divide the effective value of the capacitors 54-62 as seen by the capacitors 64-70.
• the weighted value of each capacitor is as shown in Figure 2
• the actual unit values of the capacitors 54-70 are, in the preferred form, respectively 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 1, 2, 4 and 8.
• the capacitors 54-62 contribute a total unit value of only 1 at the output due to the dividing capacitor 72
• the capacitors 64-70 contribute a total unit value of 15 units at the output.
• the embodiment shown is only exemplary and other values may be substituted. In order to make the impedance of the capacitors 54-62 in series with capacitor
• the capacitive DAC section 50 also includes a C ladder switching network 74 for selectively coupling the first plates of the capacitors 54-70 to the first reference voltage ⁇ V ref , the second reference voltage V AG , or a step voltage developed by the R DAC section 52 on a common rail 76.
• the C ladder switching network 74 comprises C rail switches 78 through 94, with the switch 78 being connected between the.
• the C ladder switching network 74 further includes C rung switches 96-110, coupled between the first plates of the capacitors 56-70, respectively, and the common rail 76.
• Each of the C rail switches 78-94 and the C rung switches 96-110 has a rank order corresponding to the rank of the associated capacitors 56-70.
• the C ladder switching network 74 is controlled by a C logic circuit which includes a one-of-eight, C decoder 111 having digital inputs b1 , b2, and b3 which receive corresponding chord input code bits of the PCM word, and eight rank ordered C rung outputs, each of which provides a C rung enable signal to a respective one of the ranked C rung switches 96-110.
• the C rung output corresponding to a chord input code of 000 is connected to the C rung switch 96.
• a respective one of the C rung enable signals will be provided to enable the associated one of the C rung switchs 96-110, and all the other C rung switches 96-110 will be disabled.
• the C logic circuit also includes rank ordered gates 112 through 128 which provide C rail disable signals to selectively disable respective C rail switches 78-94.
• the gates 114-126 are two-input NOR gates which have the inputs thereof coupled to respective adjacent pairs of the C rung outputs beginning from the lowest rank (chord input codes 000 and 001) to the highest rank (chord input codes 110 and 111).
• Gate 112 is a three-input NOR which has a first input thereof coupled to the lowest ranked C rung output (chord input code 000), a second input thereof coupled to a Charge DAC or CD disable signal for selectively decoupling the first plates of the capacitors 54-70 from the first and second reference voltages, and a third input thereof coupled to a D/A Discharge or DAD disable signal for selectively discharging the DAC capacitors 54-70 in preparation for a digital to analog conversion.
• the gate 128 is a two-input NAND having a first input thereof coupled to the inverse of the DAD disable signal and the second input thereof coupled to the output of a gate 130.
• the gate 130 is preferably a two-input OR having a first input thereof coupled to the highest ordered C rung output (chord input code 111) and a second input thereof coupled to the CD disable signal.
• the C rail disable outputs from the gates 112-128 determine which of the first plates of the capacitors 56-70 are connected to one another and to the reference voltages +V ref and V AG .
• the gate 112 disables the C rail switch 78 to decouple the first plates of the capacitors 56-70 from the first reference voltage, ⁇ V ref , and the gates 128 and 130 cooperate to disable the C rail switch 94 to decouple the first plates of the capacitors 56-70 from the second reference voltage V AG .
• the CD disable signal is also coupled to the control input of the switch 42 as signal F, switch 42 will then couple the input signal sample onto the first plates of the capacitors 56-70.
• the gate 112 disables C rail switch 78 to decouple the first plates of the capacitors 56-70 from the first reference voltage ⁇ V ref , and gate 128 enables C rail switch 94 to couple the first plates of the capacitors 56-70 to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the C decoder 111 may be selectively disabled via a Mux disable signal whenever it is necessary to charge or discharge the capacitors 54-70.
• the C decoder 111 will respond to a Mux disable signal in the high state by providing an enable signal on the lowest C rung output only.
• an inverter 132 disables a gate 134 interposed in the lowest C rung output between the gates 112 and 114 and switch 96, and the C decoder 111, to prevent the enable signal from otherwise enabling the C rung switch 96.
• the gate 134 is a two-input AND having a first input connected to the lowest ranked C rung output and a second input connected to the output of the inverter 132, the input of the latter being coupled to receive the Mux disable signal.
• the R DAC section 52 includes a voltage divider for developing on each of a rank ordered plurality of step nodes a step voltage between the first reference voltage +V ref and the second reference voltage V AG .
• the voltage divider comprises a plurality of resistors 136 through 170 connected in series between the first reference voltage +V ref and the second reference voltage V AG , with the resistors 136, 168 and 170 having a relative value of one unit each and the resistors 138 through 166 having a relative value of two units each.
• predetermined step voltages having absolute values spaced between ⁇ V ref and V AG are developed on the step nodes between each pair of resistors 136-170.
• the R DAC section 52 also includes an R ladder switching network for coupling a selected one of the step nodes to the common rail 76.
• a plurality of rank ordered R rung switches 172 through 202 couple respective step nodes to the common rail 76.
• switches 204 and 206 are coupled in parallel with resistors 136 and 170, respectively, to selectively short one of the resistors 136 and 170 in response to an Encode/Decode or En/Dec signal for reasons made clear hereinafter.
• the R ladder switching network is controlled by a one-of-sixteen, R decoder 210 having digital inputs b4, b5, b6 and b7 corresponding to the step input code bits of the PCM word, and sixteen R rung outputs for providing enable signals to respective R rung switches 172 through 202.
• R decoder 210 having digital inputs b4, b5, b6 and b7 corresponding to the step input code bits of the PCM word
• sixteen R rung outputs for providing enable signals to respective R rung switches 172 through 202.
• the R rung output corresponding to a step input code of 0000 is connected to the R rung switch 172
• the R rung output corresponding to a step input code of 1111 is connected to the R rung switch 202.
• a respective one of the R rung enable signals will be provided to enable the associated one of the R rung switches 172-202.
• each step voltage developed across the R DAC section 52 may be selectively connected to the C DAC section 50 via the common rail 76.
• the DAC portion 14 utilizes the coding capacitor 54 which has a first plate connected to a first code switch 214.
• the first code switch 214 couples the first plate of the coding capacitor 54 to the first plate of the lowest ranked capacitor 56.
• a second plate of the coding capacitor 54 is connected to the second plate of the capacitor 56.
• a second code switch 215 is connected between the second reference voltage V AG and the first plate of the coding capacitor 54.
• the first code switch 214 is enabled when either an A-law PCM conversion signal or a CD enable signal is applied to its control input terminal in a high state.
• the second code switch 215 is enabled whenever both a Mu-law PCM conversion signal and the complement of the CD enable signal are applied in a high state to its control input terminal. Whenever the first code switch 214 is enabled, the second code switch 215 is disabled and the DAC portion 48 provides A-law PCM conversion. Thus, the coding capacitor 54 is always connected in parallel with the capacitor 56 when the C DAC section 50 is being charged. When A-law conversion is desired, the capacitor 54 is allowed to remain in parallel with the capacitor 56, so that the combination of the capacitors 54 and 56 provides a capacitance of two units. However, when Mu-255 law conversion is desired, the first plate of the coding capacitor 54 is connected to the second reference voltage V AG and disconnected from the first plate of the capacitor 56.
• the step size at the origin is one-half as large in Mu-law as the step size at the origin in A-law.
• the DAC portion 14 must be able to compare the sample on the C DAC 50 to both the positive and the negative forms of the first reference voltage +V ref .
• reference voltage generators (not shown) generate the required first reference voltages +V ref and -V ref .
• the appropriate one of the positive and negative first reference voltages may be selectively coupled to the C DAC 50 and R DAC 52 via switches 216 and 217, respectively, as described hereinafter.
• the first stage of the receive filter portion 16 comprises an operational amplifier 220, a feedback capacitor 218, and a switched capacitor 222 having a first plate connected to the reference V AG and a second plate which is alternately connected to the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier 220, via a switch 224, and the output of the operational amplifier 220, via a switch 226, in response to a control signal J and the inverse thereof, to simulate a feedback resistance.
• the receive filter portion 16 includes additional filter stages with appropriate feedback paths (not shown) for performing the desired filter functions.
• the international standard sampling rate for PCM voice encoding is 8 kHz or one frame every 125 usec.
• each frame is divided into sixteen equal conversion segments, and is synchronized to a Tx Sync signal.
• Figure 3 illustrates one frame in which two D/A conversions are asynchronously performed in the course of one A/D conversion.
• the example shown in Figure 3 is representative of only one of many ways the circuit 10 is capable of performing.
• an A/D conversion is performed by sampling the analog input signal V IN , and storing an input sample -KV IN onto the feedback capacitor 24.
• the input sample is then transferred onto the first plates of the capacitors 54-70 of the DAC portion 14, and translated onto the second plates thereof to reinvert the sample.
• the polarity of the translated sample is then determined relative to the second reference voltage V AG .
• a binary search is then performed, using a conventional successive approximation register or SAR (not shown), to converge to the digital code which, when converted using the DAC portion 14, will effectively cancel the sample charge on the second plates of the capacitors 54-70, and force the voltage on the output terminal of the DAC portion 14 to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the switch 214 is enabled and the switch 215 is disabled, adding the one unit of capacitance of the capacitor 54 to the 255 units of capacitance of the capacitors 56-70 for a total C DAC 50 capacitance of 256 units. Since the R DAC 52 is capable of applying any one of the sixteen step voltages to any one of the capacitors 54-70 via the step node 76, the DAC portion 14 effectively divides the voltage difference between the first reference voltage +V ref and the second reference voltage V AG into 256 (units of capacitance) *16 (step voltages) or 4096 segments. However, the DAC portion 14 is actually able to generate only 8 (chords) *16 (steps) or 128 of these segments, due to the increasing step and chord size inherent in companding.
• the analog input sample is compared against a set of decision levels corresponding to the segments the DAC portion 14 can generate with the R DAC 52 configured to provide step voltages which are multiples of the first reference voltage V ref /16.
• the R DAC 52 is so configured by the En/Dec signal, which enables switch 204 and disables switch 206.
• this technique of encoding results in a quantizing error in the range of 0 to
• the DAC portion 14 is operating according to the Mu-255 companding law.
• the first plate of capacitor 54 is coupled via switch 215 to the second reference voltage V AG during the conversion, so that only 255 units of capacitance can be switched to each of the 16 step voltages for a total of only 4080 segments.
• the effective range of the DAC portion 14 is limited to (4080/4096)* ⁇ V ref .
• the analog input signal V IN is ssmpled, and the instantaneous value stored on the feedback capacitor 24 as -KV IN , where -K is the gain of the operational amplifier 18.
• -K is the gain of the operational amplifier 18.
• the input sample -KV IN stored on the feedback capacitor 24, has a value of -340/4096 of the first reference voltage +V ref .
• the input sample is transferred to the first
• the sample is translated relative to the second reference voltage V AG by coupling the second plates of capacitors 54-70 to the non-inverting input of operational amplifier 18 and the first plates of capacitors 54-70 to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the polarity of the sample can now be determined by configuring the operational amplifier 18 as a comparator to compare the translated sample to the second reference voltage V AG . For the example given, the output of the operational amplifier 18 will be positive, indicating that the input sample KV IN was positive when sampled.
• the result of the comparison is then stored as a positive sign bit in the SAR, and used to select the negative one of the first reference voltages ⁇ V ref ky disabling switch 216 and enabling switch 217.
• the SAR forces the next most significant bit or b1 to a 1 , making a raid-range chord input code 100 to the C decoder 111 and the low-range step input code 0000 to the R decoder 210.
• the C decoder 111 and gates 112-130 disable switches 86 and 88, and enable switches 78-84 and 90-94, to couple the first plates of capacitors 56-62. to the first reference voltage -V ref and the first plates of capacitors 66-70 to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the C decoder 111 and gates 112-130 also disable switches 96-102 and 106-110, and enable switch 104 to couple the first plate of capacitor 64 to the step node 76.
• the R decoder 210 disables switches 174-202 and enables switch 172, to couple the step node 76 to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the resulting sharing on the second plates of the capacitors 54-70 of the charge representing the stored sample develops a voltage on the second plates of the capacitors 54-70, and applied to the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier 18, which is still in the comparator configuration.
• an Rx Sync signal is received during the third segment, indicating that the A/D conversion sequence must be interrupted to perform a D/A conversion.
• the DAC capacitors 54-70 are initially discharged, since the input sample -KV IN is still being held on the feedback capacitor 24.
• a digital input code 00101100 has been received. Since the sign bit b0 is 0, the desired analog output signal must be negative. If the receive filter portion 16 has an odd number of inversion stages therein, as in the preferred embodiment, then the positive one of the first reference voltages +V ref must be selected by enabling switch 216 and disabling switch 217.
• the C decoder 111 After discharge, the C decoder 111 responds to the chord input code of 010 by enabling switches 78-80, 86-94 and 100, and disabling switches 82 and 84. Simultaneously, the R decoder 210 responds to the step input code of 1100 by enabling switch 196 and disabling 172-194 and 198-202.
• the first plates of capacitors 56 and 58 are coupled to the first reference voltage +V ref
• the first plate of capacitor 60 is coupled to the step node 76
• the first plates of capacitors 62-70 and 54 are coupled to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the step voltage developed by the R DAC 52 on step node 76 will be (25/32) *V ref .
• the charge on the output terminal of the DAC portion 14 resulting from the selective switching of the first plates of the capacitors 56-60 is coupled to the receive filter portion 16 via switch 46 under control of control signal I.
• this charge is proportional to [ (98/4096 )*(+V ref )], with the proportionality constant being related to the Thevinin equivalent total capacitance of the array of capacitors 54-70 as seen from the output terminal of the DAC portion 14.
• the capacitors 54-70 function as the input capacitance of the first stage of the receive filter portion 16, and determine in part the gain of this stage.
• the D/A conversion is performed twice in consecutive segments in order to couple a sufficient amount of charge into the receive filter portion 16.
• the R DAC 52 should be configured to provide the step voltages as odd multiples of the second reference voltage V AG /32. In the preferred embodiment. the R DAC 52 is so configured by the En/Dec signal which enables switch 206 and disables switch 204.
• the correction effectively raises or upshifts the R ladder by one-half LSB in a digital to analog conversion, to compensate for the relative lowering or downshifting of the R ladder by one-half LSB in an analog to digital conversion, resulting in a shifting of the quantizing error to the range of +1/2.
• the converted analog signal has been coupled into the receive filter 16 and charged onto the filter feedback capacitor 218.
• the analog to digital conversion is resumed where it was interrupted, by charging the input sample -KV IN back onto the DAC capacitors 54-70 from the feedback capacitor 24.
• the input signal sample is again translated onto the second plates of capacitors 54-70, as described above.
• the SAR which has remained at the value established by the end of the second segment, forces the next most significant digital input bit b2, i.e the second chord input bit, to a 1.
• the C decoder 111 and gates 112-130 disable switches 90 and 92, and enable switches 78-88 and 94, to couple the first plates of capacitors 56-66 to the first reference voltage -V ref and the first plate of capacitor 70 to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the C decoder 111 and gates 112-130 also disable switches 96-106 and 110, and enable switch 108, to couple the first plate of capacitor 68 to the step node 76.
• the R decoder 210 disables switches 174-202 and enables switch 172 and 204, to couple the step node 76 to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the resulting sharing on the second plates of the capacitors 54-70 of the charge representing the stored sample develops a voltage on the second plates of the capacitors 54-70, which is applied to the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier 18, the latter being still in the comparator configuration.
• the SAR forces the next most significant digital input bit b3, i.e the third chord input bit, to a 1.
• the C decoder 111 and gates 112-130 disable switches 88 and 90, and enable switches 78-86 and 92-94, to couple the first plates of capacitors 56-64 to the first reference voltage -V ref and the first plate of capacitors 68-70 to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the C decoder 111 and gates 112-130 also disable switches 96-104 and 108-110, and enable switch 106, to couple the first plate of capacitor 66 to the step node 76.
• the R decoder 210 disables switches
• chord input portion of the SAR contains 100, indicating that the amplitude of the input signal sample is within chord 4.
• the SAR forces the next most significant digital input bit b4, i.e the first step input bit, to a 1.
• the C decoder 111 and gates 112-130 disable switches 86-88, and enable switches 78-84 and 90-94, to couple the first plates of capacitors 56-62 to the first reference voltage -v ref and the first plate of capacitors 66-70 to the second reference voltage V AG .
• the C decoder 111 and gates 112-130 also disable switches 96-102 and 106-110, and enable switch 104, to couple the first plate of capacitor 64 to the step node 76.
• the R decoder 210 disables switches 172-186 and 190-202, and enables switch 188, to couple (16/32)*V ref to the first plate of capacitor 64 via step node 76.
• the resulting sharing on the second plates of the capacitors 54-70 of the charge representing the stored sample develops a voltage on the second plates of the capacitors 54-70, which is applied to the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier 18, the latter being still in the comparator configuration.
• each of the remaining digital input bits b5, b6 and b7, corresponding to the remaining step input bits are determined in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth segments, respectively..
• the chord input portion of the SAR contains 100 and the step input portion of the SAR contains 0110, indicating that the amplitude of the input signal V IN , when sampled, was within step 6 of chord 4.
• the contents of the SAR can be transferred into an appropriate, holding register (not shown) for subsequent use or transmission.
• the transfer is accomplished during the segment following determination of digital code bit b7.
• the SAR is then cleared to all zeros so as to be ready for the next A/D conversion cycle.
• each frame may have from 0 to 4 idle mode segments.
• circuit 10 has been illustrated using the exemplary timing diagram of Figure 3, it will be clear that the ability of the circuit 10 to perform two D/A conversions and one A/D conversion during a single frame assures asynchronous operation in voice applications. In fact, it can be shown that the circuit 10 will perform satisfactorily even if the Tx Sync signal occurs a few segments early, provided that the previous A/D conversion has been completed. While the invention has been described in the context of a preferred embodiment, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be modified in numerous ways and may assume many embodiments other than that specifically set out and described above. Accordingly, it is intended by the appended claims to cover all modifications of the invention which fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.

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