摘要:
Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of demodulator circuits for amplitude shift keying (ASK) communication demodulation. In an exemplary embodiment, a demodulator circuit is configurable (e.g., modular and/or scalable, etc.) to include any number of levels (one or more N-Levels) of demodulation. Each level of the demodulator circuit includes a peak detector, a bandpass filter, and a lowpass filter and control capacitor(s). The bandpass filter is coupled with and between the peak detector and the lowpass filter and control capacitor(s). Each level of the demodulator circuit may be identical to each other and include the same or similar components (e.g., peak detector, bandpass filter, lowpass filter and control capacitor(s)). And each demodulator circuit level (Level-1, Level-2 . . . Level-N) may be coupled with a summing voltage amplifier. The summing voltage amplifier may be coupled with an adaptive DC-offset and a lowpass filter, which, in turn, is coupled with a microcontroller.
摘要:
Systems and methods are disclosed for low power RF communications, comprising receiving an AM signal using a passive RF receiver circuit, converting the AM signal to a digital output signal using a comparator, receiving the digital output signal from the comparator, determining whether the digital output signal is valid or not using a digital signal processing circuit, and upon detection of a valid digital output signal, enabling an active RF receiver circuit for RF signal processing.
摘要:
A demodulator is mounted on a wireless power transmitter that conforms to the Qi standard, and demodulates an amplitude modulated signal superimposed on a coil current ICOIL that flows through a primary coil of a transmission antenna, or otherwise on a coil voltage across both ends of the primary coil. Multiple demodulating units are each configured to have respectively different configurations, to operate in parallel, to extract a demodulated component from the coil current ICOIL or otherwise from the coil voltage, and to generate baseband signals as demodulated signals. A signal processing unit employs a baseband signal that is correctly received, from among the multiple baseband signals generated by the multiple demodulating units, based on an error detection result obtained using a checksum.