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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:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1999
Byoung-kwon An, Kunpo, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Abstract
A flash analog-to-digital converter reduces a property mismatching problem which may occur due to process variations by reducing the number of comparators and resistors as compared to conventional converters. A half code generator receives an analog signal and outputs a one-bit middle code and a (m/2-1)-bit half thermometer code in response to a system clock signal, where m=2.sup.n and n is a positive integer. A code generator receives the middle code and the (m/2-1)-bit half thermometer code, performs a logic operation with respect to the middle code and the half thermometer code, and outputs an operation result as a (m-1)-bit full thermometer code. An encoder encodes the (m-1)-bit full thermometer code into n-bit binary data.
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