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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:
Apr. 30, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul W Chung, San Jose, CA (US);
Karl R Hense, Los Altos, CA (US);
Kim Y Nguyen, Williston, VT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341160 ; 341 94 ;
Abstract
A high performance, low power analog to digital converter is designed in BIFET technology utilizing the high gain, high performance of a bipolar comparator and the low power of a CMOS latch and CMOS encoding logic circuits. Using a FET dynamic latch, metastability is avoided, significantly reducing soft error rate.