US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Feb. 10 for "Common mode shifting of single-ended signals based on linearity analysis" (Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,616, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Common mode shifting of single-ended signals based on linearity analysis" was invented by Ashwin S.M. (Vaikom, India), Venkata Mahesh Thorata (Toronto), Anirudha Anil Shelke (Pune, India), Avinash Ugrappa (Bengaluru, India), Nikhil Raghavendra Rao (Bengaluru, India) and Jeffin Joy (Thodupuzha, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first circuit receives a single-ended signal and a reference voltage. The first circuit shifts a common mode of the single-ended signal based on a level-shifting current. A preamplifier receives the single-ended signal...