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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1998
Chung-Pin Yuan, Yangmei, TW;
Tsen-Shau Yang, Taipei, TW;
Myson Technology, Inc., Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
An analog-to-digital converter receives slow-varying analog voltages from a sensing device and converts the slow-varying analog voltages to digital signals. The sensing device generates a slow-varying analog voltage directly proportional to absolute temperature. The analog-to-digital converter includes a second counter which receives the pulse train from the second voltage controlled oscillator that counts the number of pulses which informs the first counter whenever the count value thereof reaches a fixed number and resets the count value thereof to zero. As the first counter is being informed by the second counter, its count value is read and then reset to zero. The read count represents a digital signal corresponding to the slow-varying analog voltages input.