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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2013
Imec, Leuven, BE;
Sunyoung Kim, Leuven, BE;
Refet Firat Yazicioglu, Leuven, BE;
IMEC, Leuven, BE;
Abstract
A current generator is disclosed. An example current generator includes a plurality of current cells connected in parallel, each current cell being connected to a switch. The current generator further includes a first summer configured to sum the output of each current cell of a first subset of the plurality of current cells and a second summer configured to sum the output of each current cell of a second subset of the plurality of current cells. The current generator also includes a combiner configured to combine the outputs of the first and second summers. Further, each switch is switchable according to a sequence to generate a summed output of the current cells at a plurality of quantization levels to generate positive and/or negative alternations of a pseudo-sinusoidal, alternating current.