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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masataka Watanabe, Niigata, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 9/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 9/08 ;
Abstract
A PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) circuit of the present invention includes a reference pulse sequence generating section for outputting a reference pulse sequence, an up-down counter, a trigger signal generating section for generating from an input signal a trigger signal for the up-down counter having a period which is a natural number multiple of one cycle the period of PWM, and a comparator for comparing the output of the up-down counter and the reference pulse sequence.