US Patent Issued to XILINX on May 27 for "Cross-coupled capacitive elements in highspeed DAC" (Irish, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,341, issued on May 27, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cross-coupled capacitive elements in highspeed DAC" was invented by Prathamesh Mukund Khatavkar (Dublin) and Roberto Pelliconi (Imola, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital-to analog converter (DAC) includes an unary cell comprising unary slices, the unary slices are coupled in parallel, an intermediate significant bit (ISB) cell comprising ISB slices, the ISB slices are coupled in parallel, and a least significant bit (LSB) cell comprising LSB slices, the LSB slices are coupled in parallel, the unary cell, the ISB cell and the LSB cell each being couple...