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| 20090186584 | TECHNIQUE FOR LOW-POWER OPERATION OF A WIRELESS DEVICE - Embodiments of a circuit are described. In this circuit, a receiver includes at least one input node that receives one or more signals from one or more antenna elements. Note that a given signal from a given antenna element may have an associated fixed bandwidth and/or may include directional information corresponding to a region in a space. Moreover, the receiver includes a measurement circuit, coupled to at least the one input node, that determines whether a metric of the given signal exceeds a corresponding threshold. Additionally, control logic in the circuit, which is coupled to the measurement circuit, instructs a communication circuit in the circuit to exit a first power-consumption mode if the metric of at least one of the signals exceeds the corresponding threshold. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20100058100 | DRIFT TRACKING FEEDBACK FOR COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - A communication channel includes a first component having a transmitter coupled to a normal signal source, and a second component having a receiver coupled to a normal signal destination. A communication link couples the first and second components. Calibration logic provides for setting an operation value for a parameter of the communication channel, such as by executing an exhaustive calibration sequence at initialization of the link. A tracking circuit, including a monitoring function, tracks drift in the parameter by monitoring a feedback signal that has a characteristic that correlates with drift in the communication channel, and updates, or indicates the need for updating of, the operation value of the parameter in response to the monitoring function. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100073047 | Apparatus for Data Recovery in a Synchronous Chip-to-Chip System - An apparatus that reduces sampling errors for data communicated between devices uses phase information acquired from a timing reference signal such as a strobe signal to align a data-sampling signal for sampling a data signal that was sent along with the timing reference signal. The data-sampling signal may be provided by adjustably delaying a clock signal according to the phase information acquired from the strobe signal. The data-sampling signal may also have an improved waveform compared to the timing reference signal, including a fifty percent duty cycle and sharp transitions. The phase information acquired from the timing reference signal may also be used for other purposes, such as aligning received data with a local clock domain, or transmitting data so that it arrives at a remote device in synchronism with a reference clock signal at the remote device. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100078809 | Semiconductor Module with Micro-Buffers - The semiconductor module includes a plurality of memory die on a first side of a substrate and a plurality of buffer die on a second side of the substrate. Each of the memory die is disposed opposite and electrically coupled to one of the buffer die. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100240327 | ANTENNA ARRAY WITH FLEXIBLE INTERCONNECT FOR A MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE - An antenna array can be mounted on a flexible substrate and connected by a flexible interconnect to an integrated circuit such as a radio frequency front end. The antenna array can be mounted in a device housing that includes radio frequency interference (RFI) shielding. The antenna array is aligned with and next to an area of the housing that is not shielded against RFI. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110005090 | DISPLACEMENT SENSING USING A FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE - Angular displacement of a flexible substrate is determined based on an electrical change of a mm-wave circuit associated with the flexible substrate. This electrical change may relate to, for example, one or more of a phase shift, an amplitude shift, a frequency shift, or a pulse shift. In some implementations the flexible substrate may include conductors on multiple layers whereby an angular displacement of the flexible substrate causes a relative displacement between conductors of different layers, thereby inducing the electrical change of the mm-wave circuit. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110119425 | DETACHABLE INTERCONNECT FOR CONFIGURABLE WIDTH MEMORY SYSTEM - The disclosure relates to a detachable signalling interconnect apparatus that provides connectivity between two or more components of a memory system in conjunction with different modes of operation of the components. The memory system comprises: a first socket to receive a first memory module; a second socket to receive a second memory module; a detachable signal-interconnect; and a memory controller coupled to the detachable signal-interconnect and configured to define a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation, wherein in the first mode of operation the detachable signal-interconnect is to couple the memory-controller to the first memory module and in the second mode of operation the detachable signal-interconnect is to couple the memory controller to the first memory module and the second memory module. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110255615 | Apparatus for Data Recovery in a Synchronous Chip-to-Chip System - An apparatus that reduces sampling errors for data communicated between devices uses phase information acquired from a timing reference signal such as a strobe signal to align a data-sampling signal for sampling a data signal that was sent along with the timing reference signal. The data-sampling signal may be provided by adjustably delaying a clock signal according to the phase information acquired from the strobe signal. The data-sampling signal may also have an improved waveform compared to the timing reference signal, including a fifty percent duty cycle and sharp transitions. The phase information acquired from the timing reference signal may also be used for other purposes, such as aligning received data with a local clock domain, or transmitting data so that it arrives at a remote device in synchronism with a reference clock signal at the remote device. | 10-20-2011 |
