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公开(公告)号:US11239799B2
公开(公告)日:2022-02-01
申请号:US16661174
申请日:2019-10-23
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Luigi Panseri , Mustafa H. Koroglu , Praveen Vangala , John M. Khoury
Abstract: An apparatus includes a radio-frequency (RF) circuit, which includes a power amplifier coupled to receive an RF input signal and to provide an RF output signal in response to a modified bias signal. The RF circuit further includes a bias path circuit coupled to modify a bias signal as a function of a characteristic of an input signal to generate the modified bias signal. The bias path circuit provides the modified bias signal to the power amplifier.
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公开(公告)号:US20220022132A1
公开(公告)日:2022-01-20
申请号:US16928356
申请日:2020-07-14
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Jere M. Knaappila
Abstract: A device, method and software program that allows a network device to remain synchronized to a master device while minimizing its own power consumption is disclosed. The network device exits a low power mode at regular intervals in order to receive a synchronous communication from a master device. Once the network device has received enough information to confirm that this synchronous communication is from the correct master device, the network device may then return to the low power mode, even before the entirety of the synchronous communication has been received. This may reduce the time that the network device is in the active state by more than 90% in certain instances.
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公开(公告)号:US11227614B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-18
申请号:US16898806
申请日:2020-06-11
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Antonio Torrini , Sebastian Ahmed
Abstract: A system and method of recording and transmitting compressed audio signals over a network is disclosed. The end node device first converts the audio signal to a spectrogram, which is commonly used by machine learning algorithms to perform speech recognition. The end node device then compresses the spectrogram prior to transmission. In certain embodiments, the compression is performed using Discrete Cosine Transforms (DCT). Furthermore, in some embodiments, the DCT is performed on the difference between two columns of the spectrogram. Further, in some embodiments, a function that replaces values below a predetermined threshold with zeroes in the Encoded Spectrogram is utilized. These functions may be performed in hardware or software.
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公开(公告)号:US11206122B1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-21
申请号:US17106111
申请日:2020-11-29
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Sriram Mudulodu
Abstract: A Bluetooth receiver has an RF front end which has a gain control input, the RF front end converting wireless packets into a baseband signal which is coupled to the input of an analog to digital converter (ADC). A clock generator provides a clock coupled to the ADC, and an AGC processor performs an AGC process to provide a gain which places the baseband symbols in a range that is less than 90% of the input dynamic range of the ADC. When in a connected state, the clock generator provides a clock which is slower than is required to complete the AGC process during a preamble interval, and the AGC process uses a few initial bits of the address field. The remaining bits of the address field is compared with the corresponding address bits of the receiver to determine whether to receive the packet.
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公开(公告)号:US20210391648A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-16
申请号:US16902889
申请日:2020-06-16
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Sauli Johannes Lehtimaki , Mika Tapio Länsirinne , Jere Knaappila , Joel Kauppo
Abstract: A system and method for determining a position or a movable device is disclosed. The present system utilizes a movable device equipped with a locator device that has an antenna array such that it may determine the angle of arrival of a plurality of incoming beacon signals. In certain embodiments, the movable device is also able to measure its distance travelled. By knowing its distance moved and the angle of arrival from each beacon, the locator device is able to calculate its position as well as the position of each beacon. This procedure may be executed at regular intervals so that the movable device accurately determines its position.
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公开(公告)号:US11196385B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-07
申请号:US16793985
申请日:2020-02-18
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Ruifeng Sun , Ricky Setiawan , Ben Wee-Guan Tan
Abstract: A power amplifier for a radio frequency transceiver including a driver, a disable circuit, and a bias circuit. The driver includes a source node for receiving a drive voltage when enabled and includes an output node that is susceptible to strong blocker signals when disabled. The bias circuit includes first and second bias nodes for driving the voltage level of the source and output nodes, respectively, to suitable bias voltage levels to minimize impact of blocker signals. The disable circuit includes switch circuits to couple the driver to the bias circuit in the disable mode. The bias circuit may include at least one voltage source. The bias circuit may be coupled to a supply voltage and may include a voltage divider coupled between the source and output nodes. The bias circuit may include a source-follower circuit to isolate the bias voltages from variations of the supply voltage.
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公开(公告)号:US11188656B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-30
申请号:US16047261
申请日:2018-07-27
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Steven Jan Anne Ward Cooreman
Abstract: In one form, a software system includes a first non-transitory computer readable medium storing a source code program, a second computer readable medium, and a compiler. The first non-transitory computer readable medium includes a first function having a return type greater than a native width of a target processor, and a second function that calls the first function and that conditionally branches based on comparing a returned value from the first function to an expected value, wherein the expected value has first and second portions that are not equal to zero and are not equal to each other. The compiler converts the source code program in the first non-transitory computer readable medium into a machine language program for storage in the second computer readable medium. The compiler optimizes the source code program by selectively combining a set of redundant machine language instructions into a smaller set of machine language instructions.
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公开(公告)号:US11177993B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-16
申请号:US16177373
申请日:2018-10-31
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Hendricus de Ruijter , Wentao Li
Abstract: An apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) receiver. The RF receiver includes a timing correlator and frequency offset estimator. The timing correlator and frequency offset estimator: (a) extracts timing from a set of samples derived from an RF signal, and (b) determines a frequency offset estimate from the set of samples.
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公开(公告)号:US20210350221A1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-11
申请号:US16866994
申请日:2020-05-05
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Javier Elenes
Abstract: A system and method of implementing a neural network with a non-linear activation function is disclosed. A Universal Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer (CORDIC) is used to implement the activation function. Advantageously, the CORDIC is also used during training for back propagation. Using a CORDIC, activation functions such as hyperbolic tangent and sigmoid may be implemented without the use of a multiplier. Further, the derivatives of these functions, which are needed for back propagation, can also be implemented using the CORDIC.
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公开(公告)号:US20210328605A1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-21
申请号:US17364525
申请日:2021-06-30
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Clayton Daigle , Jeffery Tindle , Matt Williamson , Jeffrey L. Sonntag
Abstract: An apparatus includes a power management circuit to receive an input voltage and to generate and provide a first output voltage to an energy storage device. The power management circuit further generates and provides a second output voltage to a load. The first output voltage is greater than the input voltage, and the second output voltage is smaller than the first output voltage. The apparatus further includes a monitor circuit to monitor the first output voltage and to provide a signal to the load to indicate when the load may perform an operation.
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