High speed encoder and method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsGea-ok Cho, Min-kyu Song, You-sam Na
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Abstract
A high-speed and low-power encoder and an encoding method, wherein the encoder includes a switching unit for receiving a thermal code of a predetermined number of bits received in series, and outputting one bit among the received bits as a most significant bit and the other bits in parallel, and an encoder for dividing the bits received from the switching unit in parallel into groups having a predetermined number of bits, encoding the bits in each group into a predetermined number of bits, selecting one group of encoded bits using bits not used by the groups, and outputting least significant bits together with the most significant bit output from the switching unit.
Claims6
A high-speed encoder comprising:
- a switching unit for receiving a thermal code of a first predetermined number of bits in series, and outputting a first one of the received bits as a most significant bit and the other received bits in parallel;
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- an encoder for dividing the other received bits output in parallel from the switching unit into a plurality of groups each having a second predetermined number of bits, encoding the bits in each of the plurality of groups into a third predetermined number of bits, selecting the encoded bits of one of the groups based on bits among the other received bits not included the groups, and outputting least significant bits together with the most significant bit output from the switching unit.
A method of encoding a thermal code output from an analog-to-digital converter, the method comprising:
- receiving a first predetermined number of bits and outputting a first one of the received bits as a most significant bit;
- dividing the received bits other than the first one of the received bits into a plurality of groups each having a second predetermined number of the received bits other than the first one of the received bits and encoding the bits in each of the groups into a third predetermined number of bits;
- selecting one of the groups based on bits among the received bits other than the first one of the received bits which are not included in the groups, and outputting the encoded bits of the selected group;
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- generating bits other than the encoded bits of the selected group, by combining the received bits other than the first one of the received bits which are not included in the groups, and outputting the generated bits.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.