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| 20110131364 | REPROGRAMMING A NON-VOLATILE SOLID STATE MEMORY SYSTEM A non-volatile memory system (10) is provided. The system comprises: non-volatile memory (11) divided into a plurality of segments (11) each segment having an address in an address space, means for copying any one segment to be reprogrammed into a f... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20100316164 | Methods and Apparatus for Reducing Average-to-Minimum Power Ratio in Communications Signals A baseband circuit for a communications transmitter includes a baseband modulator, a pulse-shaping filter, and an AMPR reduction circuit. The baseband modulator is configured to generate a sequence of symbols formatted in accordance with a non-constant envelope modulati... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100279617 | Methods and Apparatus for Reducing Receive Band Noise in Communications Transceivers A transceiver adapted to reduce receive band noise includes a transmitter, a receiver, a duplexer coupled between the transmitter and receiver, and a baseband circuit configured in a feed-forward path between a baseband section of the transmitter and a baseband section ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100259231 | Extremely high-speed switchmode DC-DC converters Switchmode DC-DC power converters using one or more non-Silicon-based switching transistors and a Silicon-based (e.g. CMOS) controller are disclosed. The non-Silicon-based switching transistors may comprise, but are not necessarily limited to, HI-V compound semiconducto... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100246716 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING HIGH-FREQUENCY EVENTS IN POLAR DOMAIN SIGNALS Methods and apparatus for reducing high-frequency events in polar domain signals. An exemplary method includes first generating an unmodified rectangular-coordinate signal having in-phase (I) and quadrature phase (Q) components that are modulated according to a predeter... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100192858 | THIN FILM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT INCORPORATING THE SAME A method for forming a thin film includes the steps of: supplying a deposition material in the form of a liquid onto a heated surface; heating and vaporizing the deposition material on the heated surface while the deposition material is undergoing movement; and depositi... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100178886 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TUNING AND CONTROLLING OUTPUT POWER IN POLAR TRANSMITTERS A power tuning method determines values of a magnitude control signal that controls the magnitude of an amplitude-modulated power supply signal applied to a power supply port of a power amplifier of a polar transmitter and an amplitude control signal that controls the a... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100124889 | ADAPTIVE DELAY ALIGNMENT IN POLAR TRANSMITTERS A polar transmitter includes a power amplifier (PA), an amplitude modulation (AM) path including an AM path adjustable delay, an AM path delay measurement circuit, a phase modulation (PM) path including a PM path adjustable delay, and a PM path delay measurement circuit... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100123523 | STANDING WAVE OSCILLATORS A standing wave oscillator (SWO) is formed from a microstrip transmission line or a stripline transmission line having a closed-loop single signal trace. Using the microstrip transmission line or stripline transmission line, the SWO can be formed with bends and in compl... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100120384 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY COMPENSATING FOR DC OFFSET DRIFT AND OTHER PVT-RELATED SIGNAL VARIATIONS IN POLAR TRANSMITTERS Methods and apparatus for dynamically compensating for signal variations in communications transmitters employing switch-mode PAs. An exemplary method includes first identifying a predetermined signal characteristic in an input signal applied to an input of a switch-mod... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100117744 | PHASE ERROR CORRECTION IN ROTARY TRAVELING WAVE OSCILLATORS An RTWO apparatus includes an N-phase RTWO (N is an integer greater than or equal to two) and a phase correction circuit. The N-phase RTWO includes a closed-loop transmission line formed as a Moebius strip. The closed-loop transmission line includes N transmission line ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100081397 | TIME ALIGNMENT METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POLAR MODULATION TRANSMITTERS A polar modulation transmitter includes an amplitude modulation (AM) path with an amplitude modulation to amplitude modulation (AM/AM′) correction circuit and a phase modulation (PM) path with a delay element and an amplitude modulation to phase modulation (AM′/PM) ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100069025 | HIGH-EFFICIENCY TRANSMITTER WITH LOAD IMPEDANCE CONTROL A transmitter generates first and second constant-envelope radio frequency (RF) component signals having first and second phase angles. The first and second phases are controlled by a phase controller. First and second nonlinear power amplifiers (PAs) are modulated by a... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100068592 | Electrodes for use in hydrocarbon-based membrane electrode assemblies of direct oxidation fuel cells Electrodes for use in direct oxidation fuel cells (DOFCs) comprise, in sequence: an electrically conductive gas diffusion layer; a catalyst layer; and a proton-conducting layer. Membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) comprise cathode and anode electrodes of such type sand... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100056068 | MULTI-MODE TRANSMITTER HAVING ADAPTIVE OPERATING MODE CONTROL Methods and apparatus for transmitting communications signals that are both power efficient and effective at avoiding or reducing transmitter-generated receive band noise. An exemplary transceiver apparatus includes a multi-mode transmitter that is configurable to opera... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100052509 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DEVICE In a panel unit 10, a discharge gas is filled into a discharge space 13. A protective layer 114 is provided in a partial region (a front panel 11 side) facing the inner space 13, and a phosphor layer 124 is provided in a counter... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100015932 | SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-MODE TRANSMITTERS A multi-mode communications transmitter includes a signal decomposer that converts rectangular-coordinate in-channel and quadrature channel signals into polar-coordinate amplitude and angle component signals and form therefrom first and second modulation signals. The si... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100002807 | Frequency Demodulation with Threshold Extension A frequency demodulator comprises a frequency discriminator configured to generate a frequency modulation signal from frequency modulated signal, circuitry for generating a phase modulation signal from the frequency modulation signal, and a click reduction signal proces... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090295493 | Self-Calibrating Modulator Apparatuses and Methods A self-calibrating modulator apparatus includes a modulator having a controlled oscillator and an oscillator gain calibration circuit. The oscillator gain calibration circuit includes an oscillator gain coefficient calculator configured to calculate a plurality of frequ... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090291648 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING AMPLITUDE MODULATION SIGNALS IN POLAR MODULATION TRANSMITTERS Methods and apparatus for reconstructing discrete-time amplitude modulation signals in polar modulation transmitters. An exemplary polar modulation transmitter includes a symbol generator, a rectangular-to-polar converter, a peak phase detector, and an amplitude modulat... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090290631 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING MODULATION SIGNAL BANDWIDTH IN POLAR MODULATION TRANSMITTERS Methods and apparatus for reducing the bandwidth of modulation signals in a phase path of a polar modulation transmitter. An exemplary method includes generating a phase difference modulation signal for a phase path of a polar modulation transmitter, and filtering the p... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090289720 | High-Efficiency Envelope Tracking Systems and Methods for Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers High-efficiency envelope tracking (ET) methods and apparatus for dynamically controlling power supplied to radio frequency power amplifiers (RFPAs). An exemplary ET circuit includes a switch-mode converter coupled in parallel with a split-path linear regulator. The swit... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090257526 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONDITIONING COMMUNICATIONS SIGNALS BASED ON DETECTION OF HIGH-FREQUENCY EVENTS IN POLAR DOMAIN Methods and apparatus for conditioning communications signals based on detection of high-frequency in the polar domain. High-frequency events detected in a phase-difference component of a complex baseband signal in the polar domain are detected and used as a basis for p... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090252255 | PREDISTORTION METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POLAR MODULATION TRANSMITTERS Methods and apparatus for predistorting signals in a polar modulation transmitter. An exemplary method includes predistorting an envelope component signal in an amplitude path of a polar modulation transmitter according to a set of AM/AM predistortion coefficients, and ... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090251368 | PHASED ARRAY RECEIVERS AND METHODS EMPLOYING PHASE SHIFTING DOWNCONVERTERS A phased array receiver includes a plurality of receive paths having a plurality of downconverters, a plurality of digitally controlled local oscillators associated with the plurality of receive paths, and a combiner. In response to a plurality of digital phase control ... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090233644 | MULTIPLE CARRIER RADIO SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYING POLAR ACTIVE ANTENNA ELEMENTS A multiple carrier radio system includes a baseband subsystem and a plurality of polar modulators. The polar modulators are mounted at antenna locations (e.g., in a base transceiver station (BTS)) above the ground), and are configured to receive modulation signals gener... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090227273 | SPLIT ANALOG-DIGITAL RADIO SYSTEMS AND METHODS A radio system includes a baseband integrated circuit and a radio frequency module partitioned along an analog-digital boundary. The baseband integrated circuit is configured to generate modulation signals from a digital message. The radio frequency module includes a co... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090196387 | INSTANT-ACQUISITION CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS LINKS Methods and systems for recovering clock and data in data streams communicated over serial communications links. An exemplary serial communications receiver system includes a line receiver configured to receive a data stream from a serial communications link and an inst... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090191826 | High-Efficiency Envelope Tracking Systems and Methods for Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers Envelope tracking (ET) methods and systems for controlling the delivery of power to radio frequency power amplifiers (RFPAs). An exemplary ET system includes an RFPA and a wide bandwidth capable and power efficient envelope modulator that includes a first power supplyin... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090176464 | Multiple-mode modulator to process baseband signals A multiple-mode modulator is configured similarly to a direct conversion quadrature modulator with an infusion of an amplitude modulation signal path from a large signal polar modulator to improve the power amplifier efficiency. The multiple-mode modulator also includes... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090135309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEEDING UP ATSC CHANNEL SEARCHING A method of reducing channel scan time is achieved by knowing important location information such a zip code. This allows a locally stored database of available broadcast channels to be used to skip unused frequencies and to allow finding the direction of the most likel... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090108951 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING PEAK-TO-RMS AMPLITUDE RATIO IN COMMUNICATION SIGNALS A pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) signal generator that injects a copy of a pulse into the PAM baseband signal prior to frequency upconversion and power amplification. The pulse comprises a function of, or an extra copy of, a pulse in the PAM baseband signal. The pulse... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090108891 | BANDWIDTH CONTROL IN A MOSTLY-DIGITAL PLL/FLL Methods and apparatus for controlling a controlled oscillator using a phase-locked loop (PLL) or frequency-locked loop (FLL) having a digital loop filter with programmable filter parameters. An exemplary PLL (or FLL) includes a digital loop filter having one or more of ... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090104900 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS Methods and apparatus for controlling events, timing and operational characteristics of wireless communications devices. An exemplary wireless communications apparatus comprises a baseband processor, radio frequency (RF) generating circuitry, a programmable event contro... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090097453 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAST HANDOVERS USING DYNAMIC ROUTER ADVERTISEMENTS The invention relates to a method for managing the movement of a mobile node from a first router in a first network to a second router in a second network, wherein the mobile node communicates with a corresponding node. In order to enable seamless communication between ... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090097444 | OVERHEAD REDUCTION OF UPLINK CONTROL SIGNALING IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention relates to a method and mobile terminal for transmitting data on uplink within a mobile communication system. Further the invention relates to a network entity for allocating uplink resources to such a mobile terminal. When a user equipment is tran... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090093223 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING RADIATED FIELD FEEDBACK IN RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSMITTERS Methods and apparatus for reducing radiated field feedback in radio frequency (RF) transmitters. An exemplary RF transmitter includes a power amplifier (PA) and a low-field oscillator (LFO) that are co-located, either on a common module or integrated in the same integra... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090066421 | Internal frequency compensation circuit for integrated circuit controllers A frequency compensation circuit internal to an integrated circuit which comprises a transconductance amplifier having a first input configured to receive a reference voltage, a second input configured to receive an input voltage and an input current, a first output con... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090066301 | Buck-boost switching regulator A buck-boost switching regulator which includes a first switch, a first diode, an inductor, a second switch, a second diode, and a controller for controlling the first switch and the second switch, the controller being configured to receive a current signal indicative o... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090042091 | Supported catalyst layers for direct oxidation fuel cells A method of fabricating a supported catalyst layer for use in a fuel cell electrode, comprises sequential steps of: combining a fluid ink including a supported catalyst comprising at least one precious metal or alloy supported on particles of a support material, and a s... | 02/12/2009 |
