Patents by Inventor Habib Abouhossein

Habib Abouhossein 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: 5661483
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for a disk drive that includes a sucessive-approximation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a two-stage digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and may also include a servo demodulator. The circuit may be implemented in a basic or pure-digital CMOS chip because the ADC includes no precision analog elements such as resistors and capacitors. The first DAC stage operates on the most significant group of bits, and the second DAC stage operates on the least significant group of bits. The DAC includes a reference current source. The first DAC stage is a multiplying DAC that multiplies the reference current in response to its digital input, and the second stage is a dividing DAC that divides the reference current in response to its input. The DAC also includes a current summer, such as a resistor, that receives the output current of each stage and provides the voltage that corresponds to the sum of the currents to a comparator. The comparator output controls a successive-approximation register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Western Digital Corporation
    Inventors: Mehrdad Negahban, Habib Abouhossein