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- Patent Title: Precision digital to analog conversion in the presence of variable and uncertain fractional bit contributions
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Application No.: US16802098Application Date: 2020-02-26
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Publication No.: US10944416B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Gideon Van Zyl
- Applicant: Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CO Fort Collins
- Assignee: Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Fort Collins
- Agency: Neugeboren O'Dowd PC
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00 ; H03M1/46 ; G06F17/18 ; H03M1/72 ; H03H19/00 ; H03H21/00 ; H03H7/38

Abstract:
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for a digital-to-analog (DAC) converter, that can be part of a variable capacitor and/or a match network. The DAC can include a digital input, an analog output, N contributors (e.g., switched capacitors), and an interconnect topology connecting the N contributors, generating a sum of their contributions (e.g., sum of capacitances), and providing the sum to the analog output. The N contributors can form a sub-binary sequence when their contributions to the sum are ordered by average contribution. Also, the gap size between a maximum contribution of one contributor, and a minimum contribution of a subsequent contributor, is less than D, where D is less than or equal to two time a maximum contribution of the first or smallest of the N contributors.
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