ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,304, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).
"A/D converter and semiconductor device" was invented by Takumi Kawaguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an A/D converter includes a successive approximation algorithm setting register that stores a plurality of successive approximation algorithms, an algorithm selection unit that selects a predetermined successive approximation algorithm from the plurality of successive approximation algorithms, a control circuit that generates a comparison value based on the selected predetermined successive approximation algorithm, a DA...