Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Analog signal conversion
- Patent Title (中): 模拟信号转换
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Application No.: US13095188Application Date: 2011-04-27
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Publication No.: US08344924B2Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- Inventor: Benjamin Vigoda , Jeffrey Bernstein , Alexander Alexeyev , William Bradley , Theophane Weber
- Applicant: Benjamin Vigoda , Jeffrey Bernstein , Alexander Alexeyev , William Bradley , Theophane Weber
- Applicant Address: US MA Norwood
- Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Norwood
- Agency: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12

Abstract:
An approach to converting an analog value based on a partition of an input range produces probabilities that the input is found within each of the regions based, for example, on a noisy version of the input. In some examples, iterative and/or pipelined application of comparison circuitry is used to accumulate a set of analog representations of the output probabilities. The circuitry can be adapted or configured according to the characteristics of the degradation (e.g., according to the variance of an additive noise) and/or prior information about the distribution of the clean input (e.g., a distribution over a discrete set of exemplar values, uniformly distributed etc.).
Public/Granted literature
- US20120194375A1 ANALOG SIGNAL CONVERSION Public/Granted day:2012-08-02
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