Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090002086 | Film bulk acoustic resonator calibration - Film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARS) have resonant frequencies that vary with manufacturing variations, but tend to be matched when in proximity on an integrated circuit die. FBAR resonant frequency is determined using a fractional-N synthesizer and comparing phase/frequency of an output signal from the fractional-N synthesizer to a reference. The reference may be derived from a low frequency crystal oscillator, an external signal source, or a communications signal. | 01-01-2009 |
20090034603 | SUBRANGING FOR A PULSE POSITION AND PULSE WIDTH MODULATION BASED TRANSMITTER - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, in a pulse position and pulse position modulation out-phasing transmitter, the range of the phase angle, theta, may be divided into more than one range to drive a first power amplifier with a first range of theta, and to drive a second power amplifier with a second range of theta. In one or more embodiments, a main power amplifier is driven with a first phase range having a higher probability density function, and an overload power amplifier is driven with a first phase range having a lower probability density function. In one or more embodiments, a full adder may be used to combine the two phases wherein the sum signal is used to drive the main power amplifier, and the carry signal is used to drive the overload power amplifier. | 02-05-2009 |
20090036064 | DIGITAL INTEGRATED TRANSMITTER BASED ON FOUR-PATH PHASE MODULATION - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a transmitter comprises four phase modulators to provide four path phase modulation. The phase modulators modulate local oscillator signals with control signals derived from quadrature baseband data to be transmitted to result in four phase modulated signals. The four phase modulated signals may be combined to provide a pulse position and pulse width modulated signal that may have a constant, or nearly constant, amplitude. The frequency spectrum of the control signals have narrower bandwidths and greater out of band attenuation resulting in higher suppression of out of channel and out of band noise. | 02-05-2009 |
20090039981 | System and Method for Controlling Resonance Frequency of Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator Devices - Disclosed is a system and method for controlling a resonance frequency of a Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR) device. The system includes at least one switching capacitor coupled to the FBAR device and a modulator. The at least one switching capacitor includes at least one capacitor and a switch configuration disposed in series with the FBAR device and the at least one capacitor, which is switch configuration capable of opening and closing connection of the at least one capacitor with the FBAR device. The modulator is coupled to the switch configuration, which generates a switching condition signal based on the manufacturing variation in the FBAR device and the environmental effects on the FBAR device. The switch configuration performs opening and closing of the connection of the at least one capacitor and the FBAR device based on the switching condition signal. | 02-12-2009 |
20090041108 | CASCADED PHASE PULSE POSITION AND PULSE WIDTH MODULATION BASED DIGITAL TRANSMITTER - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a digital transmitter may comprise two or more phase modulators in a cascaded arrangement. The phase modulators may modulate a local oscillator signal using control signals derived from the quadrature baseband data to be transmitted. A closed loop power control feedback arrangement may be used to compare the output power of the transmitter with a desired output signal, and make corrections to the output signal by modifying at least one of the control signals provided to the cascaded phase modulators. | 02-12-2009 |
20090115552 | PACKAGE FOR SUPPRESSING SPURIOUS RESONANCE IN AN FBAR - Disclosed is a package having a thin film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR). The package may be utilized for suppressing spurious resonance occurred during operation of the FBAR. The package includes a negative impedance converter (NIC) operatively coupled to the FBAR through at least one interconnect. The at least one interconnect includes transmission lines and bonding wires. The package further includes a filter operatively coupled to the NIC. The filter exhibits a parallel resonance at a predefined frequency. The parallel resonance exhibited by the filter is converted to a series resonance by the NIC such that the series resonance of the NIC is responsible for suppressing the spurious resonance occurring during the operation of the FBAR. | 05-07-2009 |
20090161802 | RECEIVER WITH ADAPTIVE POWER CONSUMPTION AND A METHOD IMPLEMENTED THEREIN - A receiver and a method for controlling power consumption therein are disclosed. The receiver comprises at least one front-end module, an amplifier, an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) module, a spectrum analyzer and a control module. The at least one front-module is configured to receive and process a RF signal to obtain an IF signal. The amplifier is configured to amplify the IF signal received from the at least one front-end module with a variable gain. The ADC module receives the amplified IF signal and converts into a digital signal. Further, the spectrum analyzer estimates a power level of a signal information and a power level of a noise in the digital signal. Thereafter, the control module controls a variable gain of the amplifier and a variable dynamic range of the ADC based on the power level of the signal information and the noise in the digital signal. | 06-25-2009 |
20090323763 | Thermal Sensor Device - A thermal sensor is provided that includes a front-end component, an analog-to-digital converter and a digital backend. The front-end component including an array of current sources, a dynamic element matching (DEM) device, an analog chopper and two diodes to sense temperatures on the die. The front-end component to provide analog signals at two output nodes based on currents through the two diodes. The analog-to-digital converter to receive the analog signals from the front-end component and to provide an output signal. The digital backend to receive the output signal from the analog-to-digital converter and to provide a calculated temperature. | 12-31-2009 |
20090325632 | Loop delay compensation for continuous time sigma delta analog to digital converter - A continuous time sigma delta analog to digital converter may use a finite impulse response filter for delay compensation. In some embodiments, the filter may be simplified by using only the first and/or second filter coefficients. | 12-31-2009 |
20100052960 | DUAL DATA WEIGHTED AVERAGE DYNAMIC ELEMENT MATCHING IN ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL - Methods and systems to provide dynamic element matching (DEM) in multi-phase sample systems include multiple uncorrelated, dual data weighted averaging, dynamic element matching (DDWA DEM). DDWA DEM may be implemented in a multiple-phase sample system in which sample paths and feedback paths share capacitances. Compensation feedback is apportioned amongst corresponding banks of capacitive sample circuits to utilize the capacitive sample circuits within each bank substantially equally over multiple sample cycles. The apportioning is substantially un-correlated between banks, which may reduce in-band quantization noise folding. DDWA DEM may be implemented within a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), in a delta-sigma modulator. | 03-04-2010 |
20100079324 | SIGMA-DELTA CONVERTER NOISE CANCELLATION - Embodiments provide apparatuses, systems, and methods to convert an analog signal input into a sigma-delta digital output at a high sampling rate and correct for noise components of the digital output. An analog filter coupled to a sigma-delta converter accepts a noise-shaped analog signal from the sigma-delta converter to attenuate signal components of the noise-shaped analog signal at a plurality of folding frequencies associated with a sampling rate of a low-speed Analog-To-Digital (ADC) to produce a filtered output. The low-speed ADC is coupled to an output of the analog filter and samples the filtered output of the analog filter at a sampling rate slower than the high sample rate to output an ADC digital output. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 04-01-2010 |
20100164765 | DAC calibration circuits and methods - Provided is a DAC with tuning circuitry in accordance with some embodiments for tuning current sources in the DAC. The DAC may be used for a sigma-delta converter in some embodiments. | 07-01-2010 |
20110267120 | DELAY LINE CALIBRATION - In some embodiments, provided are calibration techniques for measuring mismatches between TDL delay stage elements, and in some cases, then compensating for the mismatches to minimize performance degradation. | 11-03-2011 |
20120087390 | THERMAL SENSOR DEVICE - A thermal sensor is provided that includes a front-end component, an analog-to-digital converter and a digital backend. The front-end component including an array of current sources, a dynamic element matching (DEM) device, an analog chopper and two diodes to sense temperatures on the die. The front-end component to provide analog signals at two output nodes based on currents through the two diodes. The analog-to-digital converter to receive the analog signals from the front-end component and to provide an output signal. The digital backend to receive the output signal from the analog-to-digital converter and to provide a calculated temperature. | 04-12-2012 |
20120099630 | PROGRAMMABLE ENGINE HAVING A RECONFIGURABLE ACCELERATOR DATA PATH FOR TESTING AND CALIBRATION OF ANALOG FRONT ENDS IN RADIO DEVICES - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a radio device comprises an analog front end comprising a radio to transmit and/or receive radio-frequency signals, and a programmable engine coupled to the analog front end. The programmable engine is capable of being programmed to perform one or more tests on the analog front end and includes a reconfigurable data path reconfigurable by the programmable engine to perform one or more tests on the analog front end. | 04-26-2012 |
20120142304 | Power Amplifiers for Wireless Systems - A wireless transceiver may include a power amplifier that uses an envelope tracker. The envelope tracker may include stacked buck switching supply modulators, each having two different supply voltages. In one embodiment, the two different supply voltages are higher and lower supply voltages, which relaxes the voltage head room on the switching regulator and allows the use of thin gate fast transistors in some embodiments. | 06-07-2012 |
20130271305 | RESISTOR-BASED SIGMA-DELTA DAC - An inverter-driven resistor-ladder digital-to-analog (DAC) converter includes a resistor-ladder network that comprises a resistor for each bit signal of a multi-bit input signal. Each resistor of the resistor-ladder network comprises an input end and an output end. The input end of each resistor is coupled to a corresponding bit signal of the multi-bit input signal, and the output end of each resistor is coupled to an output node of the resistor-ladder network. An output voltage is generated at the output node that is based on the multi-bit input signal. In one exemplary embodiment, the multi-bit input signal is a sigma-delta (ΣΔ) modulated multi-bit input signal. In another exemplary embodiment, resistance values of the resistors of the resistor-ladder network are related by a binary weighting. In still another exemplary embodiment, resistance values of the resistors of the resistor-ladder network are substantially equal. | 10-17-2013 |
20150074156 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO COMPENSATE FOR NON-LINEARITY OF A STOCHASTIC SYSTEM - Determination of digital compensation to compensate for non-linearity of stochastic system configured to sample a phase difference, based on statistical analysis of calibration data generated by the stochastic system in response to a linear phase ramp. The stochastic system may include a set of stochastic sampler circuits to sample a phase difference at periodic events, and calibration data may include a digital value of set of stochastic samples for each of multiple events. The calibration data may include sequences of the digital values in which the digital values increment over a range of the stochastic system (i.e., between saturation states of the stochastic system). Statistical analysis may include histogram analysis to estimate the probability distribution of the calibration data. The stochastic system may be configured as part of a time-to-digital converter, which may be configured within a feedback loop of a digitally controllable phase lock loop. | 03-12-2015 |