Apparatus, method and digital-to-analog converter for reducing harmonic error power

摘要

An apparatus, method and digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for reducing harmonic error power is provided, suitable for current-mode self-calibration DAC. Unit currents are calibrated one by one based on a reference value and the error distribution of the unit currents appears identical characteristic. According to the calibrated current error distribution, a shift shifts the input digital signal so that the error distribution of the unit current selected by the digital signal is monotonicity and not related to self-calibration current period. A coarse decoder decodes the digital signal as compensation decoding. The harmonic power related to the self-calibration current period is greatly reduced, which improves the signal to noise ratio.