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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:
Jan. 22, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hugh Chow, Richmond Hill, CA;
Edward G. Callway, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
ATI International SRL, , BB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/38 ;
Abstract
A multistage A/D converter and conversion method includes generating a partial A/D bit result of a complete A/D result at a first bit/clock rate based on the received analog input signal and generating remaining A/D bits of the complete A/D result from the partial A/D bit result, at a second and slower bit/clock rate. Accordingly, the partial A/D result output from the first stage is used as input to determine remaining A/D bits to generate a complete A/D result.