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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Takamoto Watanabe, Kariya, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
In an analog-to-digital converter circuit, a sum output unit calculates the sum of an n-bit data value outputted from a first output unit and an (n+1)-bit data value outputted from a second output unit to accordingly obtain the calculated sum as a digital data value. A second calculator of the second output unit calculates the sum of a sign bit of a third digital data value as a most significant bit thereof and a second significant bit of the third digital data value. The combines a bit selected from the calculated sum with the third digital data value from which the sign bit has been eliminated to accordingly generate, as the (n+1)-bit data value, a new digital data value whose most significant bit is the bit selected from the calculated sum.