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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2004
Applicant:
David Walker Guidry, Rowlett, TX (US);
Inventor:
David Walker Guidry, Rowlett, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for providing successive approximation, such as can be used by a successive approximation converter or by a coherent undersampling digitizer. The system comprising a memory having a successive approximation value and a comparison system configured to receive and amplify the difference between a test signal and the successive approximation value and to convert the amplified signal to a digital signal. A multi-bit analog to digital convert can be used to convert the amplified signal to a digital signal.