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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2006
Applicant:
Karl Courtel, Reze, FR;
Inventor:
Karl Courtel, Reze, FR;
Assignee:
Atmel Nantes SA, Nantes, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A comparison device includes a one-threshold comparator receiving an input signal and a set value and generating a resultant signal. The comparison device further includes a sampler for sampling the resultant signal and a controller for blocking the sampler, after a switching of the input signal, as long as a timeout mechanism does not indicate that a given timeout duration has elapsed since the verification of a predetermined instability criterion.