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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2008
Applicants:
Gunhee Han, Goyang-si, KR;
Jeonghwan Lee, Seoul, KR;
Seunghyun Lim, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An analog-to-digital converter includes a ½ powered signal generator configured to generate divided signals by successively dividing a full scale signal by 2 and output one of the divided signals, an accumulator configured to update a reference signal according to a current divided signal and a current output bit, and a comparator configured to compare the updated reference signal with an input signal and generate a next output bit.