US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Sept. 8 for "Asynchronous SAR ADC with detection and correction circuit for large amplitude output code errors" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,206, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Asynchronous SAR ADC with detection and correction circuit for large amplitude output code errors" was invented by Babak Zamanlooy (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Marc-Andre Lacroix (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An N-bit successive SAR includes, in part, a differential comparator receiving a pair of differential input signals and generating a pair of differential comparator output signals; an N-bit register storing the comparator output signals; a capacitive DAC supplying differential feedback signals to the differential comparator in response to the reg...