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US 9,871,528 B1Granted
Digital to analog conversion with correlated electron switch devices
AssigneeArm Limited
InventorsAkshay Kumar, Piyush Agarwal, Bal S. Sandhu, Glen Arnold Rosendale
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Abstract
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to correlated electron switch devices, and may relate more particularly to digital to analog conversion using correlated electron switch devices ces.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- obtaining signals and/or states representative of a digital content;
- and
- converting the signals and/or states representative of the digital content into an analog output current signal at least in part by enabling one or more particular switching devices of a plurality of switching devices based at least in part on the digital content to enable current to flow through one or more correlated electron switch devices of a plurality of correlated electron switch devices, wherein the output current signal is representative of a value indicated at least in part by the digital content.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a digital-to-analog conversion circuit to obtain signals and/or states representative of digital content, the digital-to-analog conversion circuit to comprise a plurality of programmable correlated electron switch devices, the digital-to-analog conversion circuit to convert the digital content into an analog output current signal at least in part via enablement of one or more particular switching devices of a plurality of switching devices based at least in part on the digital content to enable current to flow through one or more correlated electron switch devices of the plurality of correlated electron switch devices, the analog output current signal to represent a value to be indicated at least in part the digital content.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a processor to generate one or more control signals and signals and/or states representative of digital content for a digital-to-analog conversion operation;
- and
- a digital-to-analog conversion circuit to obtain the signals and/or states representative of the digital content from the processor, the digital-to-analog conversion circuit to comprise a plurality of correlated electron switch devices to be programmable at least in part in accordance with the one or more control signals, the digital-to-analog conversion circuit to convert the digital code into an analog output current signal at least in part via enablement of one or more particular switching devices of a plurality of switching devices based at least in part on the digital content to enable current to flow through one or more correlated electron switch devices of the plurality of correlated electron switch devices, the analog output current signal to represent a value to be indicated at least in part by the digital content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.