US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Aug. 19 for "Successive approximation analog to digital conversion circuit and method having optimized linearity" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,180, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Successive approximation analog to digital conversion circuit and method having optimized linearity" was invented by Wei-Jyun Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kai-Yin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Hsiung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chien-Ming Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a SAADC circuit having optimized linearity. A lower-bit capacitor array includes lower-bit capacitors. A higher-bit capacitor array includes unit capacitors. In an initializing mode, a control circuit sorts the unit capacitors according t...