Patents by Inventor Devin Allen Cottier

Devin Allen Cottier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10491234
    Abstract: A system includes a central processing unit (CPU) core, and a pulse width modulator (PWM) controller configured to generate a PWM control signal having a PWM cycle. The system also includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), an accumulator, a sum register, and an oversampling register set. The oversampling register set is configurable by the CPU core to specify time points during each PWM cycle when the ADC is to convert an analog signal to a digital sample to produce a plurality of digital samples. The time spacing between consecutive digital samples varies among the specified time points. The accumulator accumulates digital samples from the ADC and stores an accumulated sum in the sum register. The CPU core reads the accumulated sum from the sum register, and can use the accumulated sum to calculate a metric (e.g., an average) of the digital samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Manish Bhardwaj, Devin Allen Cottier, David Peter Foley