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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004

Filed:

Jul. 29, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:

Yasho Potlapalli, Cary, NC (US);

Octavian Beldiman, Durham, NC (US);

Takashi Fujita, Hyogo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 ;
Abstract

Techniques are described for analog-to-digital signal conversion. According to exemplary embodiments, a first request is associated with a plurality of input terminals and a second request is associated with one of the input terminals. An analog signal presented at each of a portion of the input terminals associated with the first request is converted in succession into a digital value until the one of the input terminals associated with the second request is reached. A predetermined amount of time is waited to receive the second request. An analog signal presented at each of a remaining portion of the input terminals associated with the first request is converted in succession into a digital value when one of an expiration of the predetermined amount of time and a receiving of the second request occurs.


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