US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Sept. 1 for "SAR ADC bit storage upon reset" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,211, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"SAR ADC bit storage upon reset" was invented by Christopher George Moscone (Cary, N.C.), Mark A. Summers (Cary, N.C.) and Chunkyun Seok (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for operating an SAR ADC. The SAR ADC receives an analog signal and receives a first instance of conversion trigger signal. The SAR ADC, in response to receiving the first instance of the conversion trigger signal, generates a set of digital bit values corresponding to the analog signal. The SAR ADC, while one or more digital bit values c...