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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1995
Pascal Pons, Fontaine, FR;
Renzo Dal Molin, Chatillon, FR;
ELA Medical S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for adjusting an electrical parameter of an electronic device, notably of an active implantable medical device such as a pacemaker or cardiac defibrillator, and an implementing monolithic integrated circuit for conducting the adjustment. The device includes an oscillator circuit (3-6) having an adjustable component (5, 6) determining its period of oscillation, this adjustable component including one or more additional components (6) a Switch circuit (7, 8) for selectively commuting these additional components; a memory register (9) operable to preserve a digital value determining the state of the additional component commutations; a counter device (11) for measuring a relationship between a period (SOSC) produced by the oscillator circuit (as its period of oscillation may be adjusted by commutation of the additional components) and a fixed reference period (CK); a comparator (12) for determining a difference between the relationship measured by the counter and a predetermined control value (NPC); and a code generator (10) to modify the digital value preserved in the register until a value minimizing the difference determined by the comparator is found.