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Abstract

An analog successive approximation (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is disclosed that is a compromise between a SAR ADC implementation and a fully parallel thermometer-to-binary ADC. The analog SAR ADC utilizes N comparators for N bits of output and does not require a clock system, control logic, decode logic, or thermometer-to-binary decode circuitry. Conversion speed is determined by the comparator rate, and the comparator outputs may be used directly as the ADC outputs. The analog SAR ADC disclosed is a low complexity, low-precision analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that may be used to digitize phone line status information so that it may be communicated across a isolation barrier as digital information.

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