Abstract:
A phase predictor to accurately detect and predict the phase relationship between two clocks running at different frequencies. The phase relationship can be used to record the transmission and reception times of Ethernet frames transmitted over a transmission medium with very high accuracy.
Abstract:
Employed within an LED driver operating from the AC power line, the invention controls both input current and output power. With this regulation circuit, input current appears purely resistive, precisely tracking the input voltage waveshape. At the same time, it provides good line regulation and inherent phase dimmer compatibility, requiring no special circuitry to detect and handle a dimmer.
Abstract:
An electrical waveform generating circuit has a pair of Pulse Amplitude Controlled Switching Current Sources (PACS). A gate pulse driver circuit is coupled to an input of each of the pair of PACS for sending gate pulses for driving the pair of PACS. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit is coupled to the gate pulse driver circuit for controlling amplitudes of the gate pulses. A transducer is coupled to the PACS.
Abstract:
An improved analog switch for use in an ultrasound elastography probe is disclosed. The improved analog switch results in less heat dissipation compared to prior art analog switches.
Abstract:
A comparator sense input is disconnected from a current sense resistor for the duration of a switching transition in an adjacent channel(s). Instead, the sense input receives a signal of the magnitude and the slew rate sampled prior to the transition.
Abstract:
A circuit for powering of a Light Emitting Diode (LED) string has a switching power converter. A brightness control circuit is coupled to the switching power converter to allow a duration of a conductive state of the power converter to exceed a duration of a conductive state of the LED string for maintaining a current magnitude in the LED string constant.
Abstract:
A circuit module comprises a die attach pad with a surface and a plurality of leads surrounding the surface. A nonconductive adhesive is on the surface. A plurality of electronic circuit dies are on the surface of the die attach pad. Each die has a top surface and a bottom surface with the bottom surface on the adhesive. The top surface has a plurality of bonding pads. A first electronic circuit die has at least one routing path of a conductive material connecting a first bonding pad to a second bonding pad. A first bonding wire connects a bonding pad of a second electronic circuit die to the first bonding pad of the first electronic die. A second bonding wire connects the second bonding pad of the first electronic circuit die to a lead. Where one of the dies contains vertical circuit element, where a doped layer forms a terminal along the bottom surface of the layer, a trench filled with doped polysilicon extends from the top surface to the terminal to connect to the terminal. The doped polysilicon filled trench also serves to isolate and separate different circuit elements.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for embedding a microprocessor in a programmable logic device (PLD), where the microprocessor has a logic unit that can operate in two modes. A first mode is a general purpose mode running at least one general purpose process related to the PLD, and a second mode is a fixed function mode emulating a fixed function for use by logic configured into a fabric of the PLD (fabric). A memory unit is coupled to the logic unit and to the fabric, and the fabric is operable for transferring signals with the logic unit in relation to the fixed function.
Abstract:
A system and method for performing rate adaptation and multiplexing of constant bit rate (CBR) client data for transmission over a Metro Transport Network (MTN) by defining a plurality of plurality of generic mapping procedure (GMP) thread frames for a respective stream of two or more streams of 64B/66B-encoded blocks of CR client data, defining a plurality of pseudo-Ethernet packets, mapping the plurality of GMP thread frames into consecutive pseudo-Ethernet packets, assembling a stream of GMP multiplexing frames comprising the consecutive pseudo-Ethernet packets, inserting a fixed number of idle blocks between the consecutive pseudo-Ethernet packets of the stream of GMP multiplexing frames and inserting an MTN path overhead (POH) frame into the stream of GMP multiplexing frames to generate a stream of GMP multiplexing rate adapted frames.
Abstract:
A system and method for performing rate adaptation of constant bit rate (CBR) client data for transmission over a Metro Transport Network (MTN) by defining a plurality of pseudo-Ethernet packets at a source node, assembling a plurality of Generic Mapping Procedure (GMP) frames by mapping a plurality of blocks from a stream of encoded blocks of CBR client data, a plurality of pad blocks, and GMP overhead into consecutive pseudo-Ethernet packets of the plurality of pseudo-Ethernet packets, inserting a variable number of idle blocks between one or more of the consecutive pseudo-Ethernet packets and inserting an MTN path overhead (POH) frame that is aligned to the plurality of GMP frames to generate a plurality of rate adapted GMP frames for transmission over the MTN to an intermediate node or a sink node.