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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2003
Koichi Nagano, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A parallel A/D converter includes: a reference-voltage generation circuit for outputting m reference voltages (“m” is an integer of not less than two), each having different voltage values, in response to the bit precision of digital output signals; n comparators (“n” is an integer smaller than “m”); and an encoder for encoding outputs of the n comparators to output the digital output signals. Each of the n comparators compares the magnitude of one of the m reference voltages with that of an analog input signal. Thereby, power consumption can be reduced.
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