Output impedance calibration of integrated switched-mode power amplifiers

    公开(公告)号:US10739424B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-11

    申请号:US15935830

    申请日:2018-03-26

    IPC分类号: G01R33/36 G01R33/58 G01R33/30

    摘要: Systems and methods for reducing variability in the output impedance of an integrated switch-mode power amplifier (PA) split the output impedance between passive resistor, which may be on-chip, and a MOSFET switch of the amplifier. The PA may have a single-ended configuration or a differential configuration having two single-ended structures operating with opposite phases. In one implementation, the size of the MOSFET switch is larger than that of the MOSFET switch implemented in a conventional PA, but the size is still acceptable to operate the PA at a desired frequency. In addition, a calibration approach may be utilized to ensure that the MOSFET switch has a controlled and calibrated ON resistance, thereby providing stable output power levels of the PA and ensuring consistency and repeatability in NMR measurements.

    Current mode analog belief propagation
    2.
    发明授权
    Current mode analog belief propagation 有权
    电流模式信号传播

    公开(公告)号:US09294127B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-22

    申请号:US13819360

    申请日:2011-09-01

    摘要: An analog belief propagation system uses current mode implementations of storage elements and circuit implementations of at least some nodes of a factor graph using current representations. The system mitigates or avoids effects of non-linearities and approximations in storage and processing elements of the system, for instance, by using storage cells that reproduce current values and using factor circuits that separate control sections and signal path sections of the circuits.

    摘要翻译: 模拟信念传播系统使用当前表示的因子图的至少一些节点的存储元件的电流模式实现和电路实现。 该系统减轻或避免了系统的存储和处理元件中的非线性和近似的影响,例如通过使用再现电流值的存储单元并且使用分离电路的控制部分和信号路径部分的因子电路。

    Analog signal conversion
    3.
    发明授权
    Analog signal conversion 有权
    模拟信号转换

    公开(公告)号:US08344924B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-01-01

    申请号:US13095188

    申请日:2011-04-27

    IPC分类号: H03M1/12

    CPC分类号: G06J1/00

    摘要: An approach to converting an analog value based on a partition of an input range produces probabilities that the input is found within each of the regions based, for example, on a noisy version of the input. In some examples, iterative and/or pipelined application of comparison circuitry is used to accumulate a set of analog representations of the output probabilities. The circuitry can be adapted or configured according to the characteristics of the degradation (e.g., according to the variance of an additive noise) and/or prior information about the distribution of the clean input (e.g., a distribution over a discrete set of exemplar values, uniformly distributed etc.).

    摘要翻译: 基于输入范围的分区来转换模拟值的方法产生在例如基于输入的噪声版本的情况下在每个区域内发现输入的概率。 在一些示例中,使用比较电路的迭代和/或流水线应用来累积输出概率的一组模拟表示。 电路可以根据劣化的特性进行调整或配置(例如,根据加性噪声的变化)和/或关于干净输入分布的先前信息(例如,在离散的一组样本值上的分布 ,均匀分布等)。

    DUTY-CYCLE CONTROL FOR POWER-LEVEL ADJUSTMENT IN SWITCH-MODE POWER AMPLIFIERS

    公开(公告)号:US20180275229A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-27

    申请号:US15935831

    申请日:2018-03-26

    IPC分类号: G01R33/36 G01R33/30

    摘要: An approach for accurately setting a duty cycle of PA switching waveforms uses an all-digital PVT sensor circuit. In various embodiments, the all-digital PVT sensor circuit measures a pulse width of a periodic reference signal using digital delay line, and subsequently, implements an off-chip digital calculation to program the digital delay line to delay this periodic reference signal so that, when the delayed periodic reference signal is combined with the original (undelayed) reference via a logical AND operation, the resulting signal conforms to a desired duty cycle. In one implementation, the PA is a class-D PA, which may have a single-ended configuration or a differential configuration having two single-ended structures operating in opposite phases.

    OUTPUT IMPEDANCE CALIBRATION OF INTEGRATED SWITCHED-MODE POWER AMPLIFIERS

    公开(公告)号:US20180275228A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-27

    申请号:US15935830

    申请日:2018-03-26

    IPC分类号: G01R33/36 G01R33/30 G01R33/58

    摘要: Systems and methods for reducing variability in the output impedance of an integrated switch-mode power amplifier (PA) split the output impedance between passive resistor, which may be on-chip, and a MOSFET switch of the amplifier. The PA may have a single-ended configuration or a differential configuration having two single-ended structures operating with opposite phases. In one implementation, the size of the MOSFET switch is larger than that of the MOSFET switch implemented in a conventional PA, but the size is still acceptable to operate the PA at a desired frequency. In addition, a calibration approach may be utilized to ensure that the MOSFET switch has a controlled and calibrated ON resistance, thereby providing stable output power levels of the PA and ensuring consistency and repeatability in NMR measurements.

    MIXED SIGNAL STOCHASTIC BELIEF PROPAGATION
    10.
    发明申请
    MIXED SIGNAL STOCHASTIC BELIEF PROPAGATION 有权
    混合信号STOCHASTIC BELIEF传播

    公开(公告)号:US20110255612A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-10-20

    申请号:US13032520

    申请日:2011-02-22

    IPC分类号: H04L27/00

    CPC分类号: H03M13/6597 H03M13/1111

    摘要: A processor implements a network of functional nodes and communication paths between the nodes. The processor includes a plurality of circuit implementations of the functional nodes of the processor; and a plurality of signal paths implementing the communication paths linking the circuit implementations of the nodes. At least some of the signal paths are configured to pass signal values represented according to temporal patterns of signal levels on the signal paths. The processor also includes a plurality of circuit components for conversion between a signal value represented as a signal level (e.g., voltage or current level) and a signal value represented as a temporal pattern.

    摘要翻译: 处理器实现节点之间的功能节点和通信路径的网络。 处理器包括处理器的功能节点的多个电路实现; 以及实现链接节点的电路实现的通信路径的多个信号路径。 至少一些信号路径被配置为传递根据信号路径上的信号电平的时间模式表示的信号值。 处理器还包括用于在表示为信号电平(例如,电压或电流电平)的信号值和表示为时间模式的信号值之间进行转换的多个电路部件。