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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2010
Sunil S. Oak, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Sunil S. Oak, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A microcontroller includes a microcontroller core and an analog-to-digital converter ('ADC') coupled to said microcontroller core. The ADC has multiple input channel multiplexers that are configured to receive multiple analog input channels. The microcontroller further includes a selection register and a data structure. The data structure comprises a plurality of associated field sets. Each bit position in the selection register indexes to one of the associated field sets in the data structure, and the value contained in each such bit position indicates whether or not to select the corresponding associated field set for selection of an analog input channel. Each associated field set comprises one or more values collectively specifying an analog input channel to select for conversion to digital form.