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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
James E McDaniel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kenneth R Smith, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Geometrics, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3403 / ; 3403 / ;
Abstract
In a floating point digitizer, an analog signal is delivered to two signal paths. One includes a delay line. In the first path, the analog signal is measured in terms of order of magnitude to provide a signal indicative of an exponent. This same value is utilized to set the gain of a variable gain amplifier to which the delayed signal is applied and from which a mantissa is resolved.