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 5):
The ADC block of  claim 4 , wherein the amplifier block comprises one or more resistors and one or more multiplexers corresponding to the one or more resistors, each of the one or more multiplexers is configured to programmably adjust a ratio of a corresponding resistor by connecting to a tapping point among a predetermined set of tapping points based on the configuration signal, and each tapping point of the predetermined set of tapping points provides a different ratio of the corresponding resistor.

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): 0.5571851091496637
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.631986761531294
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5646652743878267
- Mean Citation Score: 295.471044
- Max Citation Score: 570.86456
- Similarity Product: 519.0753540374375

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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