US 7,589,657 B2
Analog to digital converter with interference rejection capability
Seeteck Tan, Singapore (Singapore); and Wenhuan Chen, Shanghai (China)
Assigned to O2Micro International Ltd., Georgetown (Cayman Islands)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/19,603.
Application 12/019603 is a continuation of application No. 11/486964, filed on Jul. 14, 2006, granted, now 7,324,037, filed on Jan. 29, 2008.
Prior Publication US 2008/0122674 A1, May 29, 2008
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H03M 1/78 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 341—155  [341/164; 341/165; 341/166] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A receiver for acquiring a radio frequency (RF) signal, comprising:
an analog to digital converter (ADC) for digitalizing an intermediate frequency (IF) signal based upon said RF signal to a digital magnitude signal having a first and second state and generating a control signal based upon a counted percentage of said digital magnitude signal of being said first state.