US Patent Issued to MediaTek on July 8 for "Digital-to-analog converter with sorting of unit cells that is based on mismatch errors and/or selection of new pointer location that is based on utilization rates of unit cells and associated method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,455, issued on July 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Digital-to-analog converter with sorting of unit cells that is based on mismatch errors and/or selection of new pointer location that is based on utilization rates of unit cells and associated method" was invented by Wei-Hao Sun (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chuan-Hung Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Sung-Han Wen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes a plurality of DAC cells, a mismatch error sorting circuit, and a dynamic element matching (DEM) circuit. The mismatch error sorting circuit generates a sorting result of the p...