Error tolerant thermometer-to-binary encoder

Details Error tolerant thermometer-to-binary encoder Error tolerant thermometer-to-binary encoder

1985-10-04

1986-04-29

Miller, Charles D.

Communications: electrical

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340347AD, H03M 700

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045860254

ABSTRACT:
A thermometer-to-binary encoder converts a quantity I of input digital signals, each representing one bit of an I-bit thermometer code, into a set of output digital signals each representing one bit of a corresponding binary code. The input signals are grouped into a quantity J of signal subsets, the Nth signal subset comprising the input signals representing the Nth lowest order bit of the input thermometer code and every Jth bit thereafter, each subset thereby representing a separate thermometer code derived from the I-bit input thermometer code. Each signal subset is applied as an input to a separate thermometer-to-binary encoder stage which converts the signal subset thermometer code input into a corresponding binary code output. The binary code outputs of every encoder stage are then summed to produce the set of output signals representing the binary output code corresponding to the I-bit input thermometer code.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3806915 (1974-04-01), Higgins
patent: 4069479 (1978-01-01), Carpenter
Claasen "Philips Res. Repts," 30 1975 p. 73-84.

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