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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 08, 2014
Applicant:

The United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, DC (US);

Inventors:

Sidharth Balasubramanian, Columbus, OH (US);

Waleed Khalil, Dublin, OH (US);

Vipul J. Patel, Dayton, OH (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/66 (2006.01); H03M 1/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/68 (2013.01); H03M 1/664 (2013.01);
Abstract

A digital to analog converter (DAC) includes a quantity of N cells including a Least Significant Bit (LSB) cell, a Most Significant Bit (MSB) cell and, N−2 cells ordered therebetween. Each of the N cells is configured to carry a current of I, 2*I, 4*I, 8*I, . . . , 2^(N−1)*I, respectively. At least the LSB cell includes a first cell element and a second cell element driven by a first current input and a second current input, respectively. A difference between a magnitude of the first current input and a magnitude of the second input current is approximately equal to I.


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