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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:
May. 07, 1991
Filed:
May. 24, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrew G Dingwall, Princeton, NJ (US);
Fu-Lung Hsueh, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341159 ; 341158 ;
Abstract
A twelve bit analog-to-digital converter uses two banks of 31 capacitors each coupled through separate control circuitry to a five bit analog-to-digital converter with plus or minus 1/2 bit accuracy and two separate eight bit analog-to-digital converters each having plus or minus 1/2 bit accuracy to achieve a frequency of operation from at least several MHz to up to about 40 MHz.