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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:
Mar. 03, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Patrice Senn, Grenoble, FR;
Andre Abrial, Le Versoud, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341156 ; 341159 ;
Abstract
An analog/digital converter supplying logic words constituted by P high order bits and Q low order bits, comprises: a divider (2), 2.sup.P high weight comparators (5), 2.sup.Q low weight comparators (11), and a selector (14). The high weight comparators have their second inputs (E21) enabled by the clock signal (H) and their first inputs (E11) enabled by the reverse clock signal (H.sup.*). The low weight comparators have their first inputs (E12) enabled by the reverse clock signal (H.sup.*) and their second inputs (E22) enabled by the clock signal (H).