Cascaded converter
CA 1083718 A · Owner: Telecommunications Radioelectriques Et Telephoniques T.R.T. · Inventors: Bonnerot, Georges
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An analog-to-digital converter for converting an analog signal, which varies between two values Vm and VM' to a digital gray code. The converter comprises cascaded stages which each supply a part of the code and another analog signal for the following stage. Each stage has connected to its input a comparison unit at whose output a digital signal appears which represents part of the code and a transfer element which presents a piece-wise linear transfer characteristic and which produces the analog output signal of the stage. The converter is characterized in that at least the first stage to whose, input the analog signal is applied is provided with a compari-, son unit with at least two …
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- Granted August 12, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 12, 1997.
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