PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977826
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["341", "120000"]

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) block includes: an amplifier block configured to receive two analog input signals and a primary-precision configuration signal and generate a first pair of differential signals by amplifying the two analog input signals according to a primary-precision gain that is programmably set by the primary-precision configuration signal; a configuration block configured to receive a fractional-precision configuration signal and generate a second pair of differential signals by amplifying the first pair of differential signals according to a fractional-precision gain that is programmably set by the fractional-precision configuration signal; and a differential analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), two counters, and an error generator block. The VCO receives the second pair of differential signals and generates two pulse signals having frequencies that vary depending on a difference between the second pair of differential signals. Each of the two counters receives a respective pulse signal from the VCO and generate a digital counter value. The error generator block receives digital counter values from the two digital counters generates a digital conversion code corresponding to a difference between the digital counter values.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 10 , wherein the configuration signal is received from a programmable fabric of a programmable logic device (PLD).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82857
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15673234', '15951029', '15656978', '14801620', '15921201']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.568496044621529
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.604034090497853
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5720498492091614
- Mean Citation Score: 295.471044
- Max Citation Score: 570.86456
- Similarity Product: 409.709327194314

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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