Patents Assigned to Ideas, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4968986
    Abstract: A wide bandwidth analog-to-digital converter and method. The input analog signal is supplied to a plurality (N) of parallel channels, each of which includes a modulator for modulating the incoming analog signal in each channel with a different time phased sampling signal. A filter having bandwidths which reject the sum product of the modulator and all frequencies above a predetermined level and passes the filtered signal directly to an analog-to-digital converter and a sampling signal supplied to these converters are at a rate which is predetermined fraction (depending on the number of channels) of the normal rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: T. C. Gordon Wagner