Magnetic position determination systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11573072B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-07

    申请号:US16289476

    申请日:2019-02-28

    Inventor: Jochen Schmitt

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining a position of a magnet. The systems and methods utilize a first sensor located at a first sensor position and arranged to measure at least two components of a magnetic field produced by the magnet, a second sensor located at a second sensor position and arranged to measure at least two components of the magnetic field produced by the magnet, and processing circuitry operatively connected to the first and second sensors to receive signals derived from signals outputted by the first and second sensors. A field angle is calculated from a first differential field of a first field dimension and a second differential field of a second field dimension orthogonal to the first field dimension. The first and second differential fields are calculated based on signals outputted by the first and second sensors.

    High efficiency current source/sink DAC

    公开(公告)号:US11569838B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-31

    申请号:US17197692

    申请日:2021-03-10

    Abstract: A current source and/or current sink digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes a DAC circuit that converts a digital code to an analog current or voltage signal, an optional transconductance circuit that converts a voltage output of the DAC circuit into a current signal, and an output circuit that amplifies a current output of the DAC circuit or optionally amplifies a current output of the transconductance circuit to set a desired high current output for application to an output of the current source and/or current sink DAC. A power supply control current may be coupled to a power supply circuit that supplies power to the output circuit of the current source and/or current sink DAC. The power supply control current adjusts the output of the power supply circuit to cause the current source and/or current sink DAC to operate at a higher power efficiency.

    Stochastic frequency pulse modulation for light-emitting diode drivers

    公开(公告)号:US11564296B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-24

    申请号:US17174704

    申请日:2021-02-12

    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable LED drivers to generate drive signals by implementing a modulation technique referred to herein as “stochastic frequency pulse modulation” (SFPM) are disclosed. The SFPM is based on randomly increasing or decreasing, during every cycle of a drive signal, the amount of time the drive signal is high or low, tracking the deviation of the total amount of time (i.e., for multiple cycles) that the drive signal is high or low from what it should be to provide to a LED a target average power dictated by a target dimming level, and using the tracking to set limits of ranges from which the durations of the time periods when the drive signal is high or low may be randomly selected.

    Calibration of continuous-time residue generation systems for analog-to-digital converters

    公开(公告)号:US11563442B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-24

    申请号:US17389428

    申请日:2021-07-30

    Abstract: Calibration of continuous-time (CT) residue generation systems can account and compensate for mismatches in magnitude and phase that may be caused by fabrication processes, temperature, and voltage variations. In particular, calibration may be performed by providing one or more known test signals as an input to a CT residue generation system, analyzing the output of the system corresponding to the known input, and then adjusting one or more parameters of a forward and/or a feedforward path of the system so that the difference in transfer functions of these paths may be reduced/minimized. Calibrating CT residue generation systems using test signals may help decrease the magnitude of the residue signals generated by such systems, and, consequently, advantageously increase an error correction range of such systems or of further stages that may use the residue signals as input.

    MAGNETIC SENSING DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230016196A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17863239

    申请日:2022-07-12

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of providing quadrant information to a magnetic sensing device comprising a magnetic angle sensor, and in particular, a magnetic angle sensor configured to provide 180° absolute angle measurements, such as a 180° anisotropic magnetoresistive (AMR) angle sensor, such that the magnetic sensing device outputs an analog signal encoded with 360° information. In this respect, magnetic sensing device is provided with a magnetic angle sensor and a quadrant detector, which may be provided on the same substrate or two separate substrates, wherein the signal from the quadrant detector is encoded into the analog sine and cosine voltage outputs from the magnetic angle sensor such that the two analog outputs provide 360° angle information.

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