US Patent 11626886 Thermometer coding for driving non-binary signals

Methods, systems, and devices for thermometer coding for driving non-binary signals are described. A set of drivers may be used to drive a signal line, with each of the drivers calibrated to have different individual drive strengths. To drive a signal line to successive voltages in accordance with a non-binary modulation scheme, additional individual drivers of the set may be used. The different drive strengths of the individual drivers of the set may scale in non-linear fashion, which may offset non-linearities associated with the individual drivers as additional individual drivers of the set are activated.