Programmable analog to digital converter

Details Programmable analog to digital converter Programmable analog to digital converter

1978-03-07

1980-08-05

Sloyan, Thomas J.

Communications: electrical

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340347M, 364608, H03K 1302

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042164656

ABSTRACT:
A programmable analog to digital (A/D) converter useful for example, in ultrasonic medical diagnosis systems, for providing transfer functions that in some arrangements may be manually selected and in other arrangements may be automatically selected as a function of time. A ladder network providing the comparator reference voltages in the converter is driven at a plurality of control nodes or points by programmed control voltage sets received from, for example, a resistive network or from a digital source through a digital to analog converter. In the arrangement in which the transfer function changes as a function of time, different transfer curves are selected having a predetermined relationship to the amplitude levels of the input signal which, for example, may be an ultrasonic return signal in a medical diagnosis system. The analog to digital converter of the invention has the advantage in a system providing imaging data, that gray levels of interest may be emphasized without increasing the finite number of overall system gray levels.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3597761 (1971-08-01), Fraschilla et al.
patent: 3646548 (1972-02-01), Van Doren
patent: 4099173 (1978-07-01), Zeskind et al.
patent: 4143366 (1979-03-01), Lewis

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