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公开(公告)号:US20220074991A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-10
申请号:US17100286
申请日:2020-11-20
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Matthew R. Williamson , Sebastian Ahmed
IPC: G01R31/327 , H03K19/21 , H03K5/24
Abstract: A switch sensor for sensing a state of a switch including a programmable memory, pulse generation circuitry, and comparator circuitry. The memory stores a state value indicative of a detected state of the switch. The pulse generation circuitry provides a pulse-train voltage signal to a first end of the switch, in which the pulse-train voltage signal is toggled between an active state for switch state detection and an inactive state for conserving power. A second terminal of the switch is coupled through resistive circuitry to a supply voltage node and may be coupled to an input terminal of the sensor. The comparator circuitry compares a state of the input terminal with the state value when the pulse-train voltage signal is in the active state for providing a state change signal indicative thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US11262430B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-01
申请号:US16902886
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:US11258643B1
公开(公告)日:2022-02-22
申请号:US17323782
申请日:2021-05-18
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Alexander August Arthur Hakkola
Abstract: In at least one embodiment of the invention, a method for reducing a dynamic range of a received radio frequency signal includes receiving digital IQ signals corresponding to an in-phase component of the received radio frequency signal and a quadrature component of the received radio frequency signal. The method includes demodulating the digital IQ signals to generate an instantaneous frequency signal. The method includes selecting a center frequency of a selectable filter according to whether an interfering signal is detected in a target frequency band of the received radio frequency signal. The center frequency is selected from a predetermined frequency and an estimated center frequency determined using the instantaneous frequency signal. The method includes filtering the digital IQ signals using the selectable filter configured using the center frequency to generate output digital IQ signals.
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公开(公告)号:US11258432B1
公开(公告)日:2022-02-22
申请号:US17125561
申请日:2020-12-17
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: Péter Onódy , András V. Horváth
IPC: H03K5/125 , H03K5/1252 , H03H11/06 , H03H11/26 , H03K3/012 , H03K17/687 , H03K19/20
Abstract: A driver circuit includes a first deglitcher circuit that delays a rising edge or a falling edge of an input signal according to a mode control signal and supplies a first output signal. A second deglitcher circuit receives the first output signal and delays either a rising edge or a falling edge of the first output signal by a second delay according to the mode control signal and supplies a second output signal. Logic gates combine the first and second output signals to supply gate control signals for output transistors to drive the driver circuit output. A sum of the first delay and the second delay determines the total deglitch time defining a pulse width of pulses that are suppressed by the driver circuit and the second delay determines a non-overlap time. The non-overlap time overlaps in time with the total deglitch time.
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公开(公告)号:US20220037457A1
公开(公告)日:2022-02-03
申请号:US16942078
申请日:2020-07-29
Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Inventor: EDUARDO JOSE DOS SANTOS VIEGAS
IPC: H01L49/02 , H01F27/28 , H05K1/16 , G06F30/398 , H01F41/04
Abstract: In one aspect, an inductor may include at least one loop formed on a first metal layer and a non-uniform introduced pattern formed on the first metal layer and circumscribed by the at least one loop. The non-uniform introduced pattern may be formed of a plurality of structures and may have a maximum density at an interior portion thereof and a minimum density at a peripheral portion thereof, where at least some of the plurality of structures have different sizes.
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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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