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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
May. 22, 2003
Robert Everest Johnson, Randolph, NJ (US);
Andrew Corporation, Orland Park, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for processing an analog signal includes a programmable signal converter in which a mapping between input voltages and output voltages is loaded into an input-to-output mapping device, e.g., one or more look-up tables. The resulting device has a lower cost, introduces a shorter delay, requires significantly less circuit board real estate, and has a higher operating frequency than the existing devices. An exemplary embodiment includes an analog-to-analog converter disposed in an integrated package or on a single chip integrated circuit that includes an input converter, an input-to-output mapping device and a digital-to-analog converter. The traditional encoding/decoding process on the output of the digital-to-analog conversion is replaced in this embodiment by using the input converter to drive address mapping values in the input-to-output mapping device, e.g., entries in a lookup table, thereby significantly speeding up the process.