Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Extracting clock information from a serial communications bus for use in RF communications circuitry
- Patent Title (中): 从串行通信总线提取时钟信息,用于RF通信电路
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Application No.: US13937307Application Date: 2013-07-09
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Publication No.: US08774735B2Publication Date: 2014-07-08
- Inventor: Dharma Reddy Kadam , Christopher Truong Ngo , Nadim Khlat
- Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NC Greensboro
- Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Greensboro
- Agency: Withrow & Terranova P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H04B1/02
- IPC: H04B1/02

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to RF front-end (RFFE) circuitry that includes multiple RFFE circuits, each of which may be provided by a separate integrated circuit (IC), front-end module, or both. As such, the RFFE circuits may be connected to one another using an RFFE serial communications bus. Further, one or more of the RFFE circuits may need an accurate clock source for analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), digital-to-analog conversion (DAC), calibration, sensor measurements, or the like. Instead of including an integral clock source circuit or receiving a separate external clock signal, an RFFE circuit may extract clock information from the RFFE serial communications bus to provide one or more clock signals. The clock information may be associated with one or more serial communications commands via the RFFE serial communications bus, may be associated with alternate functionality of the RFFE serial communications bus, or both.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130294554A1 EXTRACTING CLOCK INFORMATION FROM A SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS BUS FOR USE IN RF COMMUNICATIONS CIRCUITRY Public/Granted day:2013-11-07
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