Patent ID: 7944383

Claim:
A device for processing data, the device comprising a signal conditioning block adapted for manipulating a property of an analog input signal; a plurality of analog to digital converting units each adapted for generating a respective digital intermediate signal based on an output of the signal conditioning block; a digital signal processing unit supplied with the plurality of digital intermediate signals, wherein the digital signal processing unit is adapted for generating a digital output signal by processing the digital intermediate signals; and a plurality of signal paths each receiving the identical analog input signal; wherein the signal conditioning block comprises at least one signal conditioning unit in at least one of the plurality of signal paths, wherein each signal conditioning unit is adapted for generating a respective analog intermediate signal by manipulating the property, particularly an amplitude, of the analog input signal; wherein each of the plurality of analog to digital converting units is assigned to a corresponding one of the plurality of signal paths and is supplied with the analog input signal or a respective analog intermediate signal, wherein each of the plurality of analog to digital converting units is adapted for generating a respective digital intermediate signal based on the respective analog intermediate signal or based on the analog input signal; wherein the at least one signal conditioning unit is adapted for selectively amplifying or attenuating or integrating the analog input signal when generating the respective analog intermediate signal to thereby adjust a portion of the respective analog intermediate signal being processible by the assigned one of the plurality of analog to digital converting units in view of a characteristic, particularly in view of a value of a full scale range, of the assigned one of the plurality of analog to digital converting units.