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20090096525 | Power amplifier - Methods to implement power control in a digital power amplifier are described. | 04-16-2009 |
20090168387 | Packaged Integrated Circuits Having Inductors and Methods to Form Inductors in Packaged Integrated Circuits - Packaged integrated circuits having inductors and methods to form inductors in packaged integrated circuits are disclosed. An example method comprises forming a substrate having a first trace and a contact, attaching an integrated circuit to the substrate over the first trace, and electrically coupling the first trace to the contact via an electrical conductor that extends over the integrated circuit to form the inductor in the packaged integrated circuit. | 07-02-2009 |
20100091688 | SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE SIGNAL RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION USING FREQUENCY MULTIPLEXING AND SHARED PROCESSING - A novel mechanism for simultaneous multiple signal reception and transmission using frequency multiplexing and shared processing. Multiple RF signals, which may be of various wireless standards, are received using one or more shared processing blocks thereby significantly reducing chip space and power requirements. Shared components include local oscillators, analog to digital converters, digital RX processing and digital baseband processing. In operation, multiple RX front end circuits, one for each desired wireless signal, generate a plurality of IF signals that are frequency multiplexed and combined to create a single combined IF signal. The combined IF signal is processed by a shared processing block. Digital baseband processing is performed on each receive signal to generate respective data outputs. Further, simultaneous full-duplex transmission and reception is performed using a single local oscillator. The phase/frequency modulation of the frequency synthesizer used in the TX is removed from the local oscillator signal for use in the receiver. | 04-15-2010 |
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20090027127 | System and Method for Amplifier Gain Measurement and Compensation - A system and method for amplifier gain measurement and compensation. A method for compensating a signal gain of an amplifier circuit includes determining a desired gain for the amplifier circuit, determining an operating temperature of the amplifier circuit, adjusting a set of signal gains based on the operating temperature to produce a set of adjusted signal gains, determining a desired gain setting based on the desired gain and the set of signal gains, and providing the desired gain setting to the amplifier circuit. | 01-29-2009 |
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20110182382 | DIGITAL AMPLITUDE MODULATION - A transmitter using quadrature modulation includes a rectangular to polar converter for converting data symbols into a polar form, where each polar symbol has a magnitude signal and an angle signal. Digital phase modulation circuitry includes an all digital PLL circuit for generating a phase modulated RF carrier signal responsive to the angle signal frequency control word (FCW) and a carrier frequency FCW. A digitally controlled amplifier for amplifying the phase modulated signal is controlled by a digital amplitude control circuitry for controlling the gain of the digitally controlled amplifier responsive to the magnitude signal. | 07-28-2011 |
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20120007687 | Digital Amplitude Modulation - A transmitter using quadrature modulation includes a rectangular to polar converter for converting data symbols into a polar form, where each polar symbol has a magnitude signal and an angle signal. Digital phase modulation circuitry includes an all digital PLL circuit for generating a phase modulated RF carrier signal responsive to the angle signal frequency control word (FCW) and a carrier frequency FCW. A digitally controlled amplifier for amplifying the phase modulated signal is controlled by a digital amplitude control circuitry for controlling the gain of the digitally controlled amplifier responsive to the magnitude signal. | 01-12-2012 |