A multiplexer-based digital passive linear counter (PLINCO)

Author

Weaver, Skyler ; Hershberg, Benjamin ; Hanumolu, Pavan Kumar ; Moon, Un-Ku

Author_Institution

Sch. of EECS, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

13-16 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

607

Lastpage

610

Abstract

A passive linear counter (PLINCO) is presented. By cascading many passive transmission-gate multiplexers, a circuit is created that takes any scrambled unary-weighted digital input and sorts it into a thermometer coded output. Another variation produces a Â¿one-hotÂ¿ coded output. The number of muxes, n, required for these circuits increases with O{n²}, so a folding technique is presented that reduces the order to O{n log(n)}.

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; comparators (circuits); counting circuits; multiplexing equipment; passive networks; PLINCO; comparators; flash analog-to-digital converters; folding technique; multiplexer-based digital passive linear counter; one-hot coded output; passive transmission-gate multiplexers; scrambled unary-weighted digital input; thermometer coded output; unary-weighted digital input; Adders; Analog-digital conversion; Clocks; Counting circuits; Error correction; Moon; Multiplexing; Resistors; Voltage; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 2009. ICECS 2009. 16th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yasmine Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5090-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5091-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2009.5410852

Filename

5410852