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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2007
Applicants:
Benito R. Fernandez, Austin, TX (US);
Zhaohong Wu, Katy, TX (US);
Inventors:
Benito R. Fernandez, Austin, TX (US);
Zhaohong Wu, Katy, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method to tune electronic devices in general using R/2R ladder networks to obtain fixed or variable accurate properties that may include, but are not limited to resistance, current, voltage, and/or timing. As a particular application, a method for internally calibrating a digital-to-analog converter is shown in detail. The DAC uses an extended R/2R ladder to improve the converting accuracy by mapping the extended bits into the original bits. A mapping matrix is maintained, which can be rewritten by an internal calibration process.