Method and apparatus for low power thermometer to binary coder
US6542104B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 22, 2001 |
| Grant date | Apr 1, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 22, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH03M7/165
- WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An improved thermometer-to-binary coder in which the bits of the thermometer code are used to directly generate the binary code without using an intermediate one-hot code.
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