Coded data generation or conversion – Analog to or from digital conversion – Analog to digital conversion
Reexamination Certificate
2006-03-21
2006-03-21
Williams, Howard (Department: 2819)
Coded data generation or conversion
Analog to or from digital conversion
Analog to digital conversion
C341S162000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07015854
ABSTRACT:
A new architecture is provided in which a master A/D converter of limited precision controls the adjustment-charge steering of a set of similar slave A/D converter pipelines. This architecture relieves the layout constraints imposed by prior architectures and also reduces power consumption of the device. By spatially interleaving the slave pipelines in an array, the new architecture also improves accuracy.
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Daly, Crowley & Mofford & Durkee, LLP
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Williams Howard
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