Jitter reduction techniques when using digital PLLs with ADCs and DACs

    公开(公告)号:US10367516B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-30

    申请号:US15674985

    申请日:2017-08-11

    Abstract: This disclosure relates to data converters for electronic systems. An example system includes a primary analog to digital converter (ADC) circuit, a slope calculation circuit, a digital phase lock loop (DPLL) circuit, a sampling error circuit, and a summing circuit. The primary ADC circuit samples an input signal and produces a digital output signal representative of the input signal. The slope calculation circuit generates a digital slope signal representative of slope of the input signal, and the DPLL circuit provides a sampling clock signal to the primary ADC circuit. The sampling error circuit generates a sampling error signal representative of sampling error by the primary ADC circuit using the digital slope signal and the sampling clock signal. The summing circuit receives the sampling error signal and the digital output signal of the primary ADC circuit and generates an adjusted digital output signal representative of the input signal.

    Interleaved boost converter with holdup time extension

    公开(公告)号:US10367411B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-30

    申请号:US15849047

    申请日:2017-12-20

    Inventor: Francis Martin

    Abstract: A power factor correction device for providing tolerance to a fault condition in an input supply can include a first boost circuit, a second boost circuit, and a controller circuit. The controller circuit can interleave operation of the first boost circuit and operation of the second boost circuit such as to generate an output voltage when the input supply is received at the power factor correction device. The controller circuit can route, in response to the fault condition, a stored supply of the second boost circuit to an input of the first boost circuit. The controller circuit can control the first boost circuit to maintain the output voltage.

    Power regulation system for energy harvesters

    公开(公告)号:US10340700B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-02

    申请号:US15224071

    申请日:2016-07-29

    Abstract: According to some aspects, a power regulation system for energy harvesters that lacks a battery is provided. In some embodiments, the power regulation system may receive power from multiple energy harvesters that generate energy from different sources, such as wind currents and ambient light. In these embodiments, the power regulation system may selectively provide power from one or more of the energy harvesters to a load as environmental conditions change and power itself with energy from the energy harvesters. Thereby, the power regulation system may start and operate without a battery and provide power to the load over a wider range of environmental conditions.

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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190140656A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US15895661

    申请日:2018-02-13

    Abstract: Digital to analog converter architectures are disclosed that enable the binary scaling of transistor sized to be replaced by transistors of substantially the same size. This significantly reduced the size of the Digital to Analog converter on a wafer. As the currents from the lesser bits of the converter may be very small indeed, some of the transistors are operated in a regime where the gate-source voltage applied to the transistor is below the threshold voltage for the device, the threshold voltage generally being regarded as marking the onset of significant conduction through a field effect transistor.

    Method to improve latency in an ethernet PHY device

    公开(公告)号:US10277433B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-30

    申请号:US15813905

    申请日:2017-11-15

    Abstract: This disclosure relates to data communication networks. An example data communication apparatus includes physical (PHY) layer circuitry that includes transceiver circuitry, decoder circuitry, and a signal analysis unit. The transceiver circuitry receives encoded data symbols via a network link. The received encoded data symbols are encoded using trellis coded modulation (TCM). The decoder circuitry decodes the received encoded data symbols using maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding to map a received symbol sequence to an allowed symbol sequence using a trace-back depth. A trace-back depth value is a number of symbols in the received symbol sequence used by the ML decoding to identify the allowed symbol sequence from the received symbol sequence. The signal analysis unit determines one or more link statistics of the network link, and sets the trace-back depth value according to the one or more link statistics.

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