US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Aug. 12 for "Monotonic hybrid capacitor digital-to-analog converter" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,462, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Monotonic hybrid capacitor digital-to-analog converter" was invented by Aidong Yin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shenggao Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Paul Ranucci (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monotonic capacitor digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) is provided. The CDAC includes a converter array comprising a plurality of CDAC units, wherein each CDAC unit comprises a logic unit, a switch, and a capacitor, and wherein each logic unit comprises a first input, a second input, and a third input. The CDAC further includes a first ...