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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1978
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1977
Dean R Collins, Dallas, TX (US);
Bill R Norvell, Richardson, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A memory system for analogue data includes a plurality of semiconductor charge device shift registers integrated on a semiconducor substrate. In one embodiment analogue data is serially inputed into a charge-coupled device (CCD) shift register. The serial data is converted to parallel and propagates at a substantially slower speed through a plurality of shift registers. A parallel-to-serial conversion provides a serial readout of the data. The serial-parallel-serial arrangement of the memory significantly reduces the number of transfers required to propagate one bit of data through the memory and provides correspondingly improved outputs. In a different aspect of the invention, a plurality of bits of digital data are transformed into a single analogue signal effecting a reduction in size of the memory for equal storage capability.