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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1991
Filed:
May. 03, 1990
William E Engeler, Scotia, NY (US);
Matthew O'Donnell, Schenectady, NY (US);
John J Bloomer, Schenectady, NY (US);
John T Pedicone, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for providing a desired output signal as a function of a single-valued input signal in an electronic system, includes: an addressable memory, having a plurality L locations, each for storage of a data word of B bits; a circuit for storing in each of the L locations of the memory means a B-bit data word having a value selected to provide a particular output value; and circuitry for converting a present single-valued increment of input signal to a unique address, within the range of allowable locations of the memory, to cause each increment of input signal to select the associated one of the L data word locations, from which to output corresponding data.