Abstract:
A packaged semiconductor device has a top and a bottom and includes a lead frame, a die, and an encapsulant that encapsulates the die and most of the lead frame. The lead frame includes a die pad on which the die is mounted, leads electrically connected to the die such as with bond wires, and die pad extensions that fan out from the die pad. Each die-pad extension has a proximal segment and a distal segment. The distal segments are interleaved with the leads. The bottoms of the die pad and the proximal segments of the extensions may be exposed at the bottom of the device. The top of the device may have notches corresponding to the extensions and portions of the distal segments may be exposed and bent into corresponding ones of the notches at the top of the device.
Abstract:
A system controller controls a multi-camera view system for displaying an output image on a display. The output image is a view from a selected viewpoint. The system controller comprises an image resizing unit, a memory, and a processing unit. The image resizing unit receives the at least two input images captured by at least two cameras and is arranged to output to the memory at least two resized images, corresponding to the at least two input images, respectively. The image resizing unit resizes the at least two input images based on the selected viewpoint. The memory stores the two resized images. The processing unit is coupled to the memory and generates the output image from the at least two resized images.
Abstract:
A communication apparatus for preventing the broadcasting of unauthorised messages on a broadcast bus network, the communication apparatus comprising: a first memory adapted to store first information; a second memory adapted to store second information; a monitoring unit adapted to: monitor the bus for processing messages being broadcasted on the bus, and output a third information and fourth information a comparing unit adapted to compare the first information with the third information and the second information with the fourth information; and, a message destroyer adapted to: when: the first information matches with the third information, and the second information does not match with the fourth information, causing the body of the current message to be altered while the current message is being broadcasted on the bus.
Abstract:
A first network node for communicating with a second network node over a first communication network is described. The second network node is arranged to communicate over the first communication network in a first part of a communication period and arranged to not communicate over the first communication network in a second part of the communication period. The first network node has a send unit for sending data formatted in data packets to the second network node, a statistics unit arranged for determining a success statistics, an availability estimator for deriving an availability estimation from the success statistics, and a send controller arranged to control the send unit in dependence on the availability estimation. Also described is a communication system, a method of estimating availability of a second network node, a method of communicating by a first network node, and an associated computer program product.
Abstract:
The circuit generates an analog output signal which may be used to test a sigma-delta ADC. A digital waveform generator supplies a digital signal to a DAC to convert the digital signal into an analog signal. A filter filters the analog signal to obtain the analog output signal. The DAC is a DAC of a sigma-delta ADC and the filter comprises a filter of the sigma/delta ADC. A multiplexer 34 supplies the digital signal to the DAC in a generator mode wherein the circuit converts the digital signal into the analog output signal using the part of the sigma-delta ADC, or to supply a quantized analog output signal to the DAC in normal mode wherein the sigma-delta ADC converts its analog input signal into the quantized analog output signal.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides for a phase-locked loop (PLL) that includes a high-port calibration control module configured to calibrate an input modulation value of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) to a first modulation value that results in an output signal of the VCO having a positive frequency change from an initial output frequency, and capture a positive frequency value of the output signal after a first accumulation time period. The high-port calibration control module is also configured to calibrate the input modulation value of the VCO to a second modulation value that results in the output signal having a negative frequency change from the initial output frequency, capture a negative frequency value of the output signal after a second accumulation time period, and calculate a calibration scale factor based on a difference between the positive and negative frequency values.
Abstract:
A MEMS device includes a first sense electrode and a first portion of a sense mass formed in a first structural layer, where the first sense electrode is fixedly coupled with the substrate and the first portion of the sense mass is suspended over the substrate. The MEMS device further includes a second sense electrode and a second portion of the sense mass formed in a second structural layer. The second sense electrode is spaced apart from the first portion of the sense mass in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate, and the second portion of the sense mass is spaced apart from the first sense electrode in the same direction. A junction is formed between the first and second portions of the sense mass so that they are coupled together and move concurrently in response to an imposed force.
Abstract:
Interfacing between radio units in a base station in a mobile communication system uses a common public radio interface CPRI for streaming IQ data samples arranged in lanes. A separate serial interface sRIO is now additionally used for transferring selected data samples arranged in packets, the selected samples corresponding to selected lanes streamed between other radio units via the common public radio interface. In the radio unit, the selected data samples are arranged in packets to be transmitted via the serial interface, and, vice versa, the selected data samples arranged in packets received via the serial interface are arranged in lanes. A system timer coupled to the CPRI generates a timebase for controlling the sRIO interface in order to have it synchronized. Advantageously the data sample transfer capacity of the streaming CPRI interface is extended using the packet based serial interface.
Abstract:
An antenna-diversity receiver receives data units from a transmitter in a frequency-hopping communication system. The frequency-hopping system has a channel set comprising of multiple channels, each having its own frequency range. The channel set comprises a set of multiple advertising channels and a set of multiple data channels. The receiver comprises an antenna set of multiple antennas.The transmitter has an advertising mode in which the transmitter transmits an advertising signal and switches from one advertising channel to another advertising channel in accordance with a sequence of advertising intervals, each advertising interval comprising an advertising packet.The receiver has an antenna sampling mode in which the receiver receives, successively for each combination of antenna and advertising channel, advertising packets. The receiver determines a corresponding signal quality value and selects, for each data channel, an antenna from the antenna set on the basis of the determined signal quality values.
Abstract:
A voltage switching system for an integrated circuit (IC) operable in first and second operational modes includes a handover module, first and second voltage regulators, a switch driver, a transistor, and a comparator. When the IC transitions between modes, the handover module receives ramp control and hand-over start signals, generates comparator and bandwidth control signals based on the hand-over start signal and a ramp signal based on the ramp control signal. The switch driver generates a power control signal based on the comparator control signal and a gate input signal based on the ramp signal. The comparator compares first and second voltage signals based on the power control signal and generates a hand-over complete signal. The handover module generates a final hand-over complete signal based on the hand-over complete signal, indicative of completion of transition between the first and second operational modes.