Abstract:
A communication device 200 capable of operating in a communication system 100 having a control system which generates information signals with redundant information is disclosed. The communication device comprises: a receiver 214 for receiving the information signals; a circuit which can determine the signal quality of the received information signals 234; and a controller 226 which decodes the received information signals, and further compares the signal quality of the information signals with a predetermined value, and decides if the received signal quality is at least equal to the predetermined value in order to only decode a portion of the information signal. Upon the communication device decoding a portion of the information signal, the communication device 200 is placed in a battery saving mode in order to conserve battery life.
Abstract:
Une batterie rechargeable (10) comprend au moins un élément (7) présentant une borne positive et une borne négative. Un circuit de régulation à commutation (9), couplé à l'élément (7), est utilisé de manière sélective pour réguler la puissance de sortie de la batterie (28) et la charge (12) de la batterie.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for eliminating unwanted signal power dissipation in balanced amplifier circuits and for prohibiting unwanted signal power from appearing at the balanced amplifier load is presented. Load impedances to the amplifier power output transistors are maintained very low at unwanted frequencies, and are at an operational impedance level at the fundamental frequency. An impedance network control concept is presented, which may be either manually or automatically implemented.
Abstract:
A signal generator consistent with certain embodiments of the invention has a reference clock (34) producing a periodic sequence of reference clock output pulses. A window generator (38) generates a plurality of time windows through which a selected plurality of the reference clock output pulses are selectively passed as windowed pulses so that the windowed pulses form a selected pattern of pulses. A programmable delay (46) has resolution of delay that has finer time granularity in delay than the period of the clock output pulses. The programmable delay (46) delays each of the windowed pulses by a programmed delay time to thereby provide a timing correction to the windowed pulses to produce an output pattern of pulses.
Abstract:
A system and a method for providing an input to a distributed power amplifying system are provided. In an embodiment, a distributed power amplifying system includes a plurality of amplifying sections (102, 104, 106, and 108) and a plurality of drivers (110, 112, 114, and 116). Each of the plurality of drivers receives a common transmit signal (118) and an individual control signal (120, 122, 124, and 126). Each of the plurality of drivers independently preconditions the common transmit signal, to provide a transmit output signal (128, 130, 132, and 134) to each of the plurality of amplifying sections. The common transmit signal provided to each of the plurality of drivers is preconditioned, based on the individual control signal.
Abstract:
A direct digital synthesizer (DDS) (300) that uses a system for reducing spurious emissions in a digital-to-time converter (DTC) (317). The DDS (300) includes one or more dither sources (307) and a random access memory (RAM) (305). The RAM (305) utilizes a look-up table for storing delay error values by using an output of the look-up table which is combined with the dither source (307) to compensate unequal unit delay values in the DTC (317).
Abstract:
A frequency extension circuit, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention has a first delay line (108) having a plurality of taps. The delay line receives a reference clock at an input with a clock rate of FREF. A second delay line (104, 150) also receives the reference clock at an input. A logic circuit (130, 134, …, 138, 140) combines signals from the delay line taps of the first delay line (108) with signals from the delay line taps of the second and/or first delay line (104, 150, 108) to produce a collection of clock pulses having a combined clock rate of FREF*2N. At least one of the delay lines can be locked to the reference clock using a delay locked loop. The clock pulses can be logically combined with a seed register (204) contents to produce a recursive sequence or with data for convolutional encoding, or with pilot data for correlation in a CDMA transceiver.
Abstract:
A D/P converter (100) includes a controller (102) for controlling a plurality of D/P blocks (104, 106, 108). Each of the individual D/P blocks (104, 106, 108) provides an output signal (132, 134, 136) which is combined by a combiner (110) to produce an output signal (112). The D/P converter (100) produces outputs at a rate up to one per reference clock cycle. This allows for minimization of power consumption of the D/P converter (100) and/or improved frequency range for a synthesizer or other device utilizing the D/P converter (100).
Abstract:
A feedforward amplifier and notch filter (300) according to the present invention uses a direct coupling of an amplifier stage (370) with the amplifier's load (RL). The main amplifier (304) is coupled through a transmission line (308) to the load (ZL). This direct coupled amplifier stage (370) is driven by an signal that induces a very low impedance in parallel with the load at the receive frequency, but appears as an open circuit at the desired frequencies so that the desired signal from the main amplifier (304) is virtually unaffected while output components at the receive frequency are cancelled.
Abstract:
High quality layers of monocrystalline materials (26) can be grown overlying monocrystalline substrates (22, 2615) such as large silicon wafers by forming a compliant substrate for growing the monocrystalline layers. An accommodating buffer layer (24,2610) comprises a layer of monocrystalline oxide spaced apart from a silicon wafer by an amorphous interface layer of silicon oxide. The amorphous interface layer (28) dissipates strain and permits the growth of a high quality monocrystalline oxide accommodating buffer layer. The accommodating bufferlayer is lattice matched to both the underlying silicon wafer and the overlying monocrystalline material layer. Any lattice mismatch between the accommodating buffer layer and the underlying silicon substrate is taken care of by the amorphous interface layer. In addition, formation of a compliant substrate may include utilizing surfactant enhanced epitaxy, epitaxial growth of single crystal silicon onto single crystal oxide, and epitaxial growth of Zintl phase materials. The use of monocrystalline piezoelectric material as an overlying layer (2605) is disclosed to facilitate the fabrication of on-chip high frequency communications devices such as microwave SAW devices with direct interface to high speed semiconductor devices in the integrated circuit.