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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. 02, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideo Ishida, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364745 ; 3647151 ; 364737 ;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a limiter circuit for limiting an output data to a limit value when an input data exceeds in value the limit value. The limiter circuit includes an encoder responding to the input data and producing a first data indicative of an effective digit number of the value of the input data, a comparator comparing the first data with a second data indicative of an effective digit number of the limit value, and a decoder responding to the second data and producing a third data indicative of the limit value. One of the input data and the third data is selected and outputted as the output data through a selector responding to a comparison output of the comparator.