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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:
Feb. 22, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shirou Baba, Tokorozawa, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395800 ; 36443112 ; 364D / ; 3649256 ; 364926 ; 395775 ;
Abstract
A digital semiconductor integrated circuit is equipped with: a digital signal input circuit; an analog signal input circuit made receptive of an analog signal for feeding out a digital signal corresponding to the analog signal; and a common external terminal connected commonly with the input terminals of the digital signal input circuit and the analog signal input circuit. By a suitable switch circuit, the common external terminal can be used as either an analog signal input terminal or a digital signal input terminal. As a result, the number of the external output terminals required can be reduced.