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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:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Benjamin J. McCarroll, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/38 ;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for correcting errors in N digital word generated by N+1 pipelined analog-to-digital converters. The method comprises the steps of: (1) synchronizing the N digital words by N groups of pipeline registers; and (2) correcting the synchronized N digital words by performing either an incrementing operation or a decrementing operation based on an adjustment value.