Patent ID: 8860589

Claim:
A circuit for a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with built-in self-healing, comprising: a plurality of ADC slices, each ADC slice configured to operate in one of a normal or a healing mode of operation; each ADC slice being configured to convert, in the normal mode of operation, an input analog signal to a single digital output signal in response to a clock signal associated with the ADC slice; and each ADC slice being configured to be operable, in the healing mode of operation, to convert the input analog signal to two or more digital output signals in response to two or more clock signals, wherein: the circuit is configured to allow at least one of the two or more digital output signals to replace one or more output signals of one or more failed ADC slices, a first clock signal of the two or more clock signals is the clock signal associated with the ADC slice, and a second clock signal of the two or more clock signals is associated with another ADC slice of the plurality of ADC slices.