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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1981
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert L Carbrey, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3403 / ; 3403 / ; 3403 / ; 3403 / ;
Abstract
A reversible analog to digital converter is designed for high precision in the interrelation of analog voltages and binary digital representations. An upper and a lower limit voltage converge on the analog voltage level in binarily decreasing steps. The upper and lower limits are averaged to form a trial voltage; in A/D conversion the trial voltage replaces one of the limits in accordance with a comparison between the analog voltage and the trial voltage, in digital to analog conversion the trial voltage replaces one of the limits in accordance with a binary input signal.