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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130278454 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION ACCORDING TO DELTA-SIGMA MODULATION USING DOUBLE SAMPLING - The modulator comprises a first and second integration stages, and a comparator, the first integration stage is fully differential having: an amplifier, sets of input sampling capacitors and feedback capacitors, and the first integration stage is configured to sample the analog input voltage on a set of input capacitors during a first portion of a clock cycle and on a set of input capacitors during a second portion of the clock cycle and to sample the feedback reference voltage on a set of feedback capacitors during the first portion of the clock cycle and on a set of feedback capacitors during the second portion of the clock cycle, and the first set of feedback capacitors and the second set of feedback capacitors are randomly selected out of the plurality of sets of feedback capacitors from cycle to cycle. | 10-24-2013 |
20120161942 | RFID TRANSPONDER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An RFID transponder having an analog front end receiver having an attenuator coupled to receive an RF-signal from an antenna and to attenuate the RF-signal, an amplifier having a fixed amplifier gain and being coupled to receive and to amplify the attenuated RF-signal and a control unit coupled to control a gain of the attenuator, wherein the control unit is configured to control the attenuator gain in response to a level of the amplified RF-signal, the control unit is configured to have a plurality of predetermined states causing the attenuator to increase (step-up) or to decrease (step-down), its gain by a predefined step size. | 06-28-2012 |