US Patent Issued to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY on Sept. 2 for "Successive approximation analog-to-digital converter for a PAM-(2 N -2) receiver" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,359, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Successive approximation analog-to-digital converter for a PAM-(2 N -2) receiver" was invented by Pen-Jui Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yun-Cheng Jao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Po Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A successive approximation ADC includes a switch circuit, a conversion circuit, a comparison circuit and a controller. The conversion circuit outputs first and second comparison voltages that are respectively equal to first and second input voltages when the switch circuit operates in an ON state. The comparison circuit comp...