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Keir C Lauritzen

Martin C Peckerar

F Keith Perkins

Frank K Perkins

Angela M Hodge-Miller

An analog to digital converter includes a resistor-divider network including a plurality of resistors, an arbel channel circuit configured to generate a voltage sawtooth signal as an output, a dc-offset disposed to couple a node of the resistor-divider network and the arbel-channel circuit. The converter further includes a voltage reference circuit configured to generate a reference voltage, and a differential comparator configured to compare the voltage sawtooth signal with the reference voltage to produce a digital output signal corresponding to the voltage sawtooth signal. Method of converting an analog signal to a digital signal is also described.

Analog to digital converter using sawtooth voltage signals with differential comparator

An analog to digital converter circuit includes an isolation circuit, an input circuit including a resistor chain, a plurality of fixed threshold comparators, and an encoder. The resistor chain includes a plurality of resistors connected in series, the isolation circuit being configured to isolate a device supplying the analog input signal from the input circuit. The isolation circuit is connected to the input circuit at a top node of the resistor chain, and wherein 2values of the analog input voltage are connected to inputs of the fixed threshold comparators to produce corresponding output signals. Methods of converting an analog signal to a digital signal are also described.

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Keir C Lauritzen