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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1998
Hendrik Ten Pierick, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A time period (Td) is generated with a high accuracy and a high resolution. At a starting instant (ti) of the time period (Td), an analog integration operation (,) is started to generate an integration value (ios). At a certain instant (t,), the analog integration operation is interrupted to start counting (,) clock pulses (Clk). A selected number (N;N,) of clock pulses (Clk) is counted to obtain a sub-period (T,). The analog integration operation is resumed at the end of the sub-period (T,) at the integration value (ios) reached at the start of the sub-period (T,). The analog integration operation finishes at an end instant (td) of the time period (Td) at which the integration value (ios) crosses a reference value (Ref).