Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Charge-scaling adder circuit
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Application No.: US16408808Application Date: 2019-05-10
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Publication No.: US10587282B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: David Paulsen , Phil Paone , John E. Sheets, II , George Paulik , Karl Erickson , Gregory J. Uhlmann
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Nathan M. Rau
- Main IPC: H03M1/16
- IPC: H03M1/16 ; H03M1/12 ; H03M1/36 ; H03M1/46 ; H03M1/80 ; H03M1/10

Abstract:
An adder circuit can be fabricated within an integrated circuit (IC) and can be configured to draw a sum output node to a voltage proportional to a sum of received N-bit binary numbers. The adder circuit includes sets of N inputs that receive N-bit binary numbers, each set of N inputs indexed by an integer bit number “n.” The adder circuit includes sets of scaled capacitors, each capacitor connected to an nth input of the corresponding set of N inputs and to the sum output node. Each scaled capacitor has a capacitance equal to 2(n)*a unit capacitance (CUNIT). The adder circuit includes a reference capacitor connected to ground and the sum output node, and a reset circuit configured to draw, in response to a received RESET signal, the sum output node to ground.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190393885A1 CHARGE-SCALING ADDER CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2019-12-26
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