Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a microphone driving device and a digital microphone including the same. A microphone driving device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a voltage-to-current converter, a current-to-voltage converter, an analog-to-digital converter, a digital amplification unit, and a gain controller. The voltage-to-current converter converts an acoustic signal to an output current signal based on a gain control signal. The current-to-voltage converter converts the output current signal to an amplified voltage signal. The analog-to-digital converter converts the amplified voltage signal to a digital signal. The digital amplification unit amplifies the digital signal to an amplified digital signal based on the gain control signal. The gain controller generates a gain control signal. The microphone driving device and the digital microphone including the same according to the inventive concept may have a wide dynamic range and reduce the influence of noise.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an ultra-wide band (UWB) radar device including a first antenna circuit including a first transmission circuit, a first reception circuit, a first oscillator that supplies a first clock signal to the first transmission circuit and the first reception circuit, and a first frequency counter, a second antenna circuit including a second transmission circuit, a second reception circuit, a second oscillator that supplies a second clock signal to the second transmission circuit and the second reception circuit, and a second frequency counter, and a controller that detects the target. The controller corrects a frequency error between the first clock signal and the second clock signal and compensates for a synchronization error between the first antenna circuit and the second antenna circuit.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a transmitter which includes a channel driver that includes a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor connected between a power node and a ground node and outputs a voltage between the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor as a transmit signal, and a pre-driver that controls the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor in response to a driving signal and controls the channel driver such that the transmit signal is overshot at a rising edge of the driving signal and the transmit signal is undershot at a falling edge of the driving signal.
Abstract:
The neuromorphic arithmetic device comprises an input monitoring circuit that outputs a monitoring result by monitoring that first bits of at least one first digit of a plurality of feature data and a plurality of weight data are all zeros, a partial sum data generator that skips an arithmetic operation that generates a first partial sum data corresponding to the first bits of a plurality of partial sum data in response to the monitoring result while performing the arithmetic operation of generating the plurality of partial sum data, based on the plurality of feature data and the plurality of weight data, and a shift adder that generates the first partial sum data with a zero value and result data, based on second partial sum data except for the first partial sum data among the plurality of partial sum data and the first partial sum data generated with the zero value.
Abstract:
A method for ZQ calibration for a data transmission driving circuit of each memory die in a memory chip package in which memory dies are stacked, includes generating a reference current through a reference resistor connected between a power terminal supplying a power voltage of the data transmission driving circuit and a ground terminal and a first transistor that is diode-connected; supplying first currents corresponding to the reference currents to a pull-up driver of each memory die; performing ZQ calibration of a pull-up driver of a corresponding memory die by comparing a first voltage formed by each first current with a reference voltage formed by the reference current in each of the plurality of memory dies; and performing ZQ calibration of a pull-down driver of the corresponding memory die based on an output impedance of the ZQ calibrated pull-up driver in each of the memory dies.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are a duty cycle monitoring method and apparatus for a memory interface, including receiving a clock signal as input and generating a first delay time offset and a second delay time offset, receiving the clock signal and the first delay time offset and then outputting a first delayed signal, receiving the first delayed signal and the second delay time offset and then outputting a second delayed signal, receiving the clock signal and the second delayed signal and then outputting a delay value corresponding to a half-period of the clock signal, and monitoring, based on the first delayed signal, whether a duty cycle of the clock signal conforms to a duty cycle specification.
Abstract:
Provided is a memory interface device. A memory interface device, comprising: a DQS input buffer configured to receive input data strobe signals and output a first intermediate data strobe signal, the DQS input buffer providing a static offset; an offset control circuit configured to receive the first intermediate data strobe signal and output a second intermediate data strobe signal; and a duty adjustment buffer configured to receive the second intermediate data strobe signal and output a clean data strobe signal, wherein the offset control circuit provides a dynamic offset using the clean data strobe signal.
Abstract:
Provided is an image recognition device. The image recognition device includes a frame data change detector that sequentially receives a plurality of frame data and detects a difference between two consecutive frame data, an ensemble section controller that sets an ensemble section in the plurality of frame data, based on the detected difference, an image recognizer that sequentially identifies classes respectively corresponding to a plurality of section frame data by applying different neural network classifiers to the plurality of section frame data in the ensemble section, and a recognition result classifier that sequentially identifies ensemble classes respectively corresponding to the plurality of section frame data by combining the classes in the ensemble section.
Abstract:
Provided is a current-voltage conversion amplifier circuit including: a plurality of light receiving devices generating a current signal proportional to an amount of light by receiving the light; multipliers amplifying the current signal, converting the amplified current signal into a first voltage signal, outputting the amplified current signal, or outputting the converted first voltage signal; multi input amplifiers outputting first and second output voltage pairs through a process for receiving output values of multipliers and an offset voltage and amplifying the received output values and offset voltage; a multiplexing unit selecting and outputting one first and second output voltage pair among the first and second output voltage pairs outputted from multi input amplifiers; and a signal conversion unit converting a difference value between first and second output voltages outputted from the multiplexing unit and outputting the converted digital signal.
Abstract:
Provided is a capacitor-type sensor read-out circuit. The capacitor-type sensor read-out circuit includes: a signal conversion unit outputting a sensor signal inputted from a sensor; a voltage booster generating a bias voltage; and a capacitor-type signal coupling circuit receiving the sensor signal as a feedback, mixing the received sensor signal with the bias voltage, and outputting the mixed signal.