| 摘要 |
Binary indications are converted to an analog representation with significant reductions in ringing at the transitions between successive binary indications and in the period during each binary indication. The binary indications are disposed in a row-and-column matrix to provide a thermometer code. The converter includes pluralities of decoders and latches, each decoder being associated with an individual latch. Each decoder responds to binary indications of an individual row and an individual column and the next column to produce a latched pair of output indications, inverted relative to each other, in synchronism with a clock signal. The production of the latched outputs in synchronism with the clock signal inhibits ringing in the period during each binary indication. Each pair of inverted latch outputs is respectively introduced to a differential amplifier, formed from MOS transistors of the p type, in an individual one of a plurality of current sources. Each differential amplifier has a pair of branches each responsive to the paired inverted outputs from the associated latch in an opposite relationship to that of the other branch. The p type transistors in each differential amplifier inhibit ringing in such amplifier at the transitions between the successive binary indications. Each branch in each differential amplifier is connected to a resistor common to the corresponding branches in the other differential amplifiers. Such branches pass through such resistor a current dependent upon the cumulative current through such branches. This cumulative current provides the analog representation.
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