US Patent Issued to IPSmart on June 17 for "Single-end input configurable differential SAR analog-to-digital converter" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,949, issued on June 17, was assigned to IPSmart Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Single-end input configurable differential SAR analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Yuan-Ju Chao (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-end input configurable Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter (SARADC) allows for the input configuration as single-ended or differential inputs without adding extra circuitry. In both configurations, the ADC maintains the same LSB voltage and output code range. Furthermore, when configured as a single-ended input, power consumption is further reduced."

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