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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:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jens Sauerbrey, Munich, DE;
Oliver Kiehl, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341145 ; 341144 ;
Abstract
A fully differential resistor-string digital-to-analog converter wherein a resistor network having half the number of resistors of an otherwise standard digital-to-analog convertor of this type is enabled with the assistance of a first decoder, a second decoder and a subtraction unit thus reducing the required chip area and the overall switching time.