US Patent Issued to Diodes on May 5 for "Method and apparatus for SAR analog-to-digital conversion" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,001, issued on May 5, was assigned to Diodes Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for SAR analog-to-digital conversion" was invented by Yen-Chang Tung (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) may be used to generate a first digital data of N-bit and a second digital data of N-bit for an analog data. When the second digital data and the first digital data include a first sequence of most significant bits (MSBs) having same values, a third digital data of N-bit may be generated for the analog data using the SAR ADC in a partial mode. In the partial m...