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A digital to analog converter and dynamic current mirror structure to simplify on-chip wave shaping

EP 0880826 B1 · Applicant: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC.

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  • Filed October 25, 1996 and granted May 16, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 25, 2016.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by April 25, 2022.
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FiledOctober 25, 1996
PublishedDecember 2, 1998
GrantedMay 16, 2001
Term endedOctober 25, 2016
Application numberEP 96936984
Classification (CPC)H03M1/662 +1 more

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