RATIO-METRIC MULTI-SENSING CONVERTOR
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240345679A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-17

    申请号:US18301547

    申请日:2023-04-17

    发明人: Andriy Maharyta

    IPC分类号: G06F3/041 G06F3/044

    摘要: Apparatuses and methods of capacitance-to-digital code conversion are described. One apparatus includes a bridge circuit and a modulator front-end circuit. The bridge circuit includes a first terminal to couple to a reference cell and a second terminal to couple to a sensor cell. The modulator front-end circuit includes a comparator coupled to the bridge circuit, a first modulation capacitor coupled to a first input of the comparator, and a second modulation capacitor coupled to a second input of the comparator. The modulator front-end circuit provides a digital bitstream. A duty cycle of the digital bitstream is representative of a ratio between a capacitance of the sensor cell and a reference capacitance of the reference cell.

    Synchronous Rectifier Scheme to Avoid Cross-conduction in a Fly-Back Converter

    公开(公告)号:US20240322699A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18186859

    申请日:2023-03-20

    IPC分类号: H02M3/335 H02M1/44

    CPC分类号: H02M3/33592 H02M1/44

    摘要: A fly-back converter and method of operating is provided to eliminate cross-conduction between a power-switch (PS) on a primary side of a transformer and a synchronous-rectifier (SR) on a secondary side when operating in continuous conduction mode. Generally, the method includes turning on the SR when a drain voltage of the SR drops to a negative voltage followed by a rise in the SR-drain-voltage at a first slope as a current is drawn from the secondary side of the transformer through the SR. When the PS is turned on before the transformer is completely discharged cross-conduction causes a change in the rise of the drain voltage to a second slope greater than the first slope. By turning off the SR within 50 ns of the change in the rise of the drain voltage, cross-conduction is minimized or eliminated without receiving turn-on information from a controller operating the PS.

    VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT CHANNEL CALIBRATION FOR BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20240295612A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-05

    申请号:US18178426

    申请日:2023-03-03

    发明人: Roman Ogirko

    摘要: A first step of a calibration procedure is be performed to obtain a first set of voltage measurements by causing each mode switch of a first set of mode switches of a voltage management subsystem to be placed in a first position and each mode switch of a second set of mode switches of the voltage management subsystem to be placed in a second position. Each mode switch is included within a channel of the voltage management subsystem. A second step of the calibration procedure is performed to obtain a second set of voltage measurements by causing each mode switch of the first set of mode switches to be placed in the second position and each mode switch of the second set of mode switches to be placed in the first position.

    ADDITIONAL SECURITY RANGING FOR BLE USING CO-LOCATED Wi-Fi DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20240251247A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-25

    申请号:US18158285

    申请日:2023-01-23

    摘要: Techniques are disclosed to leverage co-located radios such as BLE and Wi-Fi radios to increase the security of BLE ranging and localization. In one aspect, a transmitting BLE device may use a co-located Wi-Fi radio to transmit signals to interfere with an intruding device's interception of BLE RTT packets. The obfuscating Wi-Fi transmission may overlap a BLE RTT packet in the time domain with or without overlapping in the frequency domain. In one aspect, the co-located Wi-Fi radio may transmit pre-determined signature Wi-Fi signals concurrently with the BLE RTT packets to a receiver with co-located BLE and Wi-Fi radios. The receiver may detect a change in the pre-determined relationship between the two types of communication to reveal an intrusion attempt. In one aspect, a co-located Wi-Fi radio may capture parts of BLE RTT packets concurrently with a BLE radio transmitting or receiving BLE RTT packets to detect an intrusion attempt.