Abstract:
An electronic device may include a transducer configured to generate an electrical output responsive to an input, and a data storage element configured to change state responsive to the transducer. The electronic device may include a power circuit configured to turn on and supply power responsive to the data storage element changing state, and a processing circuit configured to be powered by the power circuit.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, an inductive/LC sensor device includes: an energy storage device for accumulating excitation energy, an LC sensor configured to oscillate using energy accumulated in the energy storage device and transferred to the LC sensor, an energy detector for detecting the energy accumulated in the energy storage device reaching a charge threshold, and at least one switch coupled with the energy detector for terminating accumulating excitation energy in the energy storage device when the charge threshold is detected having been reached by the energy detector.
Abstract:
A system to manage out-of-order traffic in an interconnect network has initiators that provide requests through the interconnect network to memory resource targets and provide responses back through the interconnect network. The system includes components upstream the interconnect network to perform response re-ordering, which include memory to store responses from the interconnect network and a memory map controller to store the responses on a set of logical circular buffers. Each logical circular buffer corresponds to an initiator. The memory map controller computes an offset address for each buffer and stores an offset address of a given request received on a request path. The controller computes an absolute write memory address where responses are written in the memory, the response corresponding to the given request based on the given request offset address. The memory map controller also performs an order-controlled parallel read of the logical circular buffers and routes the data read from the memory to the corresponding initiator.
Abstract:
Current tasks being executed in a set of modules of a signal processing system managed via an interface block are aborted so as to permit the execution of new tasks by pipelining eliminating transactions of said current tasks and executing transactions of the new tasks. Upon arrival of a signal to abort the current tasks, data and/or memory accesses present in said interface block are discarded.
Abstract:
A microcontroller includes an input pin and internal pull-up and pull-down circuits. External pull-up and pull-down circuits are also coupled to the input pin. The microcontroller is operable according to different configuration modes which include configuring the input pin in a floating state. A control logic then configures the internal pull-up and pull-down circuits according to an internal pull-up mode to acquire a first input voltage signal (at a first logic value) from the input pin, and further configure the internal pull-up and pull-down circuits according to an internal pull-down mode to acquire a second input voltage signal (at a second logic value) from the input pin. A selection of the operating mode of the MCU is then made based on the acquired first and second logic values.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a device comprising an oscillation circuit, configured to provide a clock signal to a radio frequency circuit, and an antenna, in which the enabling of the passage of the signal from the circuit to the antenna is delayed with respect to an instant from which a power amplifier of the circuit is enabled.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device comprising a first capacitor and a quartz crystal coupled in series between a first node and a second node; an inverter coupled between the first and second nodes; a first variable capacitor coupled between the first node and a third node; and a second variable capacitor coupled between the second node and the third node.
Abstract:
A method for power management in an electronic circuit that comprises a processing system and an RF embedded circuit includes: generating a first regulated voltage with a power regulation module of the RF embedded circuit; generating a second regulated voltage from the first regulated voltage with a first linear regulator of the processing system; and controlling the power regulation module of the RF embedded circuit to operate according to a plurality of operation modes. The operation modes include: a first sleep mode in which a switched-mode power supply of the RF embedded circuit is off and a second linear regulator of the RF embedded circuit is off; a second sleep mode in which a switched-mode power supply is off and the second linear regulator is on; and a third sleep mode in which the switched-mode power supply is on and the second linear regulator is off.
Abstract:
An electronic circuit includes a switched-mode power supply and a linear voltage regulation circuit having an input stage, a first output stage, and a second output stage. A first load is capable of being powered either by the switched-mode power supply in series with the regulation circuit or by the regulation circuit without the switched-mode power supply.
Abstract:
A method for power management in an electronic circuit that comprises a processing system and an RF embedded circuit includes: generating a first regulated voltage with a power regulation module of the RF embedded circuit; generating a second regulated voltage from the first regulated voltage with a first linear regulator of the processing system; and controlling the power regulation module of the RF embedded circuit to operate according to a plurality of operation modes. The operation modes include: a first sleep mode in which a switched-mode power supply of the RF embedded circuit is off and a second linear regulator of the RF embedded circuit is off; a second sleep mode in which a switched-mode power supply is off and the second linear regulator is on; and a third sleep mode in which the switched-mode power supply is on and the second linear regulator is off.