Circuits for continuous-time clockless analog correlators

    公开(公告)号:US11050457B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16889716

    申请日:2020-06-01

    摘要: Circuits for continuous-time analog correlators are provided, comprising: a first VCO that receives an input signal and that outputs a first pulse frequency modulated (PFM) output signal; a second VCO that receives a reference signal and that outputs a second PFM output signal; a first phase frequency detector (PFD) that receives the first PFM output signal and the second PFM output signal and that produces a first PFD output signal; a first delay cell that receives the first PFM output signal and that produces a first delayed signal (DS); a second delay cell that receives the second PFM output signal and that produces a second DS; a second PFD that receives the first DS and the second DS and that produces a second PFD output signal; and a capacitor-digital-to-analog converter (capacitor-DAC) that receives the first PFD output signal and the second PFD output signal and that produces a correlator output.

    CIRCUITS FOR CONTINUOUS-TIME CLOCKLESS ANALOG CORRELATORS

    公开(公告)号:US20200382154A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16889716

    申请日:2020-06-01

    摘要: Circuits for continuous-time analog correlators are provided, comprising: a first VCO that receives an input signal and that outputs a first pulse frequency modulated (PFM) output signal; a second VCO that receives a reference signal and that outputs a second PFM output signal; a first phase frequency detector (PFD) that receives the first PFM output signal and the second PFM output signal and that produces a first PFD output signal; a first delay cell that receives the first PFM output signal and that produces a first delayed signal (DS); a second delay cell that receives the second PFM output signal and that produces a second DS; a second PFD that receives the first DS and the second DS and that produces a second PFD output signal; and a capacitor-digital-to-analog converter (capacitor-DAC) that receives the first PFD output signal and the second PFD output signal and that produces a correlator output.

    CIRCUITS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ON MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BANDS

    公开(公告)号:US20180287559A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-04

    申请号:US15765795

    申请日:2016-10-04

    摘要: Circuit for wireless communication are provided, the circuits comprising: a first quadrature hybrid having a first in port, a first iso port, a first cpl port, and a first thru port; a first mixer having a first input coupled to the first cpl port and having an output; a second mixer have a first input coupled to the first cpl port and having an output; a third mixer having a first input coupled to the first thru port and having an output; a fourth mixer having a first input coupled to the first thru port and having an output; and a first complex combiner having inputs coupled to the output of the first mixer, the output of the second mixer, the output of the third mixer, and the output of the fourth mixer that provides first I and Q outputs based the output of the first mixer and the output of the second mixer.

    Circuits for identifying interferers using compressed-sampling

    公开(公告)号:US11374599B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US16331086

    申请日:2017-10-23

    IPC分类号: H04B1/10 H04B1/16

    摘要: Circuits for identifying interferers using compressed-sampling, comprising: a low noise amplifier (LNA); a passive mixer having a first input coupled to an output of the LNA; a local oscillator (LO) source having an output coupled to a second input of the passive mixer; a low pass filter having an input coupled to an output of the passive mixer; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having an input coupled to the output of the low pass filter; a digital baseband (DBB) circuit having an input coupled to an output of the ADC; and a compression-sampling digital-signal-processor (DSP) having an input coupled to the output of the DBB circuit, wherein the compression-sampling DSP is configured to output identifiers of frequency locations of interferers, wherein, in a first mode, the LO source outputs a modulated LO signal that is formed by modulating an LO signal with a pseudo-random sequence.

    CIRCUITS FOR MODULATED-MIXER-CLOCK MULTI-BRANCH RECEIVERS

    公开(公告)号:US20200099338A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-26

    申请号:US16579782

    申请日:2019-09-23

    摘要: Circuits comprising: a plurality of LNTA branches, each comprising: a cascode common-source (CCS) LNTA, a plurality of passive mixers (PMs), and a plurality of baseband two-stage Miller compensated TIAs (BB2S-TIAs); a plurality of mixer-first branches, each comprising: a plurality of RF switches, a plurality of baseband folded-cascode TIAs (BBFC-TIAs), and a plurality of Cherry-Hooper amplifiers, wherein an input to each of the BBFC-TIAs is provided by an output of at least one of the RF switches, and an input to each of the amplifiers is provided by an output of a corresponding one of the BBFC-TIAs; a first plurality of clock modulators that provide first non-overlapping modulated clocks that are provided to an input of the PMs; and a second plurality of clock modulators that provide a plurality of tri-level modulated mixer clocks that control the switching of the RF switches.

    Circuits and methods for detecting interferers

    公开(公告)号:US10122396B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15510910

    申请日:2015-09-14

    摘要: Mechanisms for interferer detection can detect interferers by detecting elevated signal amplitudes in one or more of a plurality of bins (or bands) in a frequency range between a maximum frequency (fMAX) and a minimum frequency (fMIN). To perform rapid interferer detection, the mechanisms downconvert an input signal x(t) with a local oscillator (LO) to a complex baseband signal xI(t)+jxQ(t). xI(t) and xQ(t) are then multiplied by m unique pseudorandom noise (PN) sequences (e.g., Gold sequences) gm(t) to produce m branch signals for I and m branch signals for Q. The branch signals are then low pass filtered, converted from analog to digital form, and pairwise combined by a pairwise complex combiner. Finally, a support recovery function is used to identify interferers.

    CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING INTERFERERS

    公开(公告)号:US20180219567A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-02

    申请号:US15676610

    申请日:2017-08-14

    IPC分类号: H04B1/10 H04B17/345 H04J13/00

    摘要: Mechanisms for interferer detection can detect interferers by detecting elevated signal amplitudes in one or more of a plurality of bins (or bands) in a frequency range between a maximum frequency (fMAX) and a minimum frequency (fMIN). To perform rapid interferer detection, the mechanisms downconvert an input signal x(t) with a local oscillator (LO) to a complex baseband signal xI(t)+jxQ(t). xI(t) and xQ(t) are then multiplied by m unique pseudorandom noise (PN) sequences (e.g., Gold sequences) gm(t) to produce m branch signals for I and m branch signals for Q. The branch signals are then low pass filtered, converted from analog to digital form, and pairwise combined by a pairwise complex combiner. Finally, a support recovery function is used to identify interferers.

    Low voltage track and hold circuits
    10.
    发明授权
    Low voltage track and hold circuits 失效
    低电压跟踪和保持电路

    公开(公告)号:US08441287B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-05-14

    申请号:US11663373

    申请日:2005-09-20

    IPC分类号: G11C27/02 H03K5/00 H03K17/00

    摘要: Circuits that operate with power supplies of less than 1 Volt are presented. More particularly, circuits that operate with supply voltages near or lower than the threshold voltage of the transistors in those circuits are presented. Various circuits and embodiments such as operational transconductance amplifiers, biasing circuits, integrators, continuous-time sigma delta modulators, track-and-hold circuits, and others are presented. The techniques and circuits can be used in a wide range of applications and various transistors from metal-oxide-semiconductor to bipolar junction transistors may implement the techniques presented herein.

    摘要翻译: 介绍使用电源小于1伏的电路。 更具体地,提供了在这些电路中接近或低于晶体管的阈值电压的电源电压下工作的电路。 提出了诸如运算跨导放大器,偏置电路,积分器,连续时间Σ-Δ调制器,跟踪和保持电路等各种电路和实施例。 技术和电路可以用于广泛的应用中,并且从金属氧化物半导体到双极结型晶体管的各种晶体管可以实现本文提出的技术。