Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Gigadevice Semiconductor Inc.

Sheng Liang

Fan Zhang

Wei Xiao

Zhan Li

Chunfeng Chen

Xiaotian Liu

Disclosure regards a signal conversion device and method and an analog-to-digital converter, including a channel module including a plurality of sampling channels, wherein each of the plurality of sampling channels is configured to receive an analog signal; a timing-control module configured to provide a plurality of candidate sequences including a first sequence and a second sequence for the same sampling channel, wherein the timing-control module sets a first sampling time corresponding to the first sequence and a second sampling time corresponding to the second sequence; a conversion module electrically coupled to the timing-control module and the channel module, wherein the conversion module is configured to convert the analog signal from the same sampling channel into a digital signal in response to an order and sampling times defined by the candidate sequences. Therefore, problems of poor sampling accuracy and flexibility in the current sampling technologies are effectively solved.

Analog-to-digital converter, signal conversion device, and signal conversion method

Scanning and rescanning detect state inconsistencies between data entities in repositories or other components of a distributed computing environment. First, entities are scanned based on a cutoff time TO. Entities for which state comparison is undesired are placed in a skipped entity list. Any inconsistencies found in other entities is reported. Then subsequent rescanning fetches state and attempts to pare down the skipped entity list. Rescanning may be capped. Inconsistencies may be detected without requiring downtime from services that update data entity state, and false reports of inconsistency may be avoided.

Data consistency check in distributed system

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Sheng Liang