Error tolerant thermometer-to-binary encoder

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

1993-11-04

1995-01-17

Hoff, Marc S.

Coded data generation or conversion

Digital code to digital code converters

To or from number of pulses

341160, H03M 700

Patent

active

053829557

ABSTRACT:
A thermometer-to-binary encoder includes a set of J input stage encoders E(1) through E(J) and an output encoder D, where J= 2.sup.K is an integer greater than 1. A set of digital input signals each representing a separate bit of a thermometer code T is grouped into J signal subsets representing further thermometer codes T(1) through T(J) providing inputs to a set of input stage encoders E(1) through E(J) respectively. Encoder E(J) produces an N-K+1 bit output binary code B(J) representing thermometer code T(J). Encoders E(1) through E(J-1) produce M-bit output binary codes G(1) through G(J-1), respectively, comprising the lower M bits of a binary code representing thermometer codes T(1) through T(J-1), respectively, where M is an integer greater than 1. Output encoder D processes codes G(1) through G(J-1) and B(J) to produce a set of digital output signals representing a binary code Y representing input thermometer code T.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4586025 (1986-04-01), Knierim
patent: 4712087 (1987-12-01), Traa
patent: 4733220 (1988-03-01), Knierim
patent: 5029305 (1991-07-01), Richardson
patent: 5243348 (1993-09-01), Jackson
patent: 5329279 (1994-07-01), Barbu et al.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Error tolerant thermometer-to-binary encoder does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Error tolerant thermometer-to-binary encoder, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Error tolerant thermometer-to-binary encoder will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-749910