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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2016
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Zhenyong Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); H03M 1/38 (2006.01); H03M 1/18 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03M 1/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/38 (2013.01); H03M 1/124 (2013.01); H03M 1/186 (2013.01); H03M 1/46 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system includes an analog-to-digital converter receiving a plurality of input signals. One particular input signal has a particular analog value and the analog-to-digital converter uses a fixed reference to convert the particular analog value to a particular digital value. The analog-to-digital converter uses the particular analog value as a reference for converting the analog values of the remaining input signals.