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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:
Jan. 09, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven R Norsworthy, Emmaus, PA (US);
Assignee:
AT&T IPM Corp., Coral Gables, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341131 ; 341155 ;
Abstract
A data converter is disclosed that includes a multiplier for multiplying digital signal samples by a gain factor to produce multiplied digital samples. The multiplier can either be bypassed or a dither signal can be introduced in the multiplication operation. A multiplexer responsive to a select input selectively provides either the digital signal samples or the multiplied digital signal samples as the output of the multiplexer.