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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| 20120108189 | Transmitter Linearized Using Bias Deviation Gain Adjustment And Method Therefor A transmitter (50) includes a low power memoryless nonlinear predistorter (58) that inserts predistortion configured to address a nonlinearity (146) corresponding to gain droop and another nonlinearity (148) corresponding to deviations from a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120049961 | Amplifier gain adjustment in response to reduced supply voltage A power amplifier gain control system that monitors power supply voltage and changes the gain of the amplifier in response to changes in supply voltage. In systems subject to changes in supply voltage, such as in a battery powered system, the supply voltage can change o... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120007680 | VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER A variable gain amplifier includes a direct current (DC) blocking capacitor which receives an input signal at a first terminal, a variable amplifier unit, having a variable transistor size, which amplifies an output of a second terminal of the DC blocking capacitor, a l... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120001693 | POWER AMPLIFIER AMPLITUDE MODULATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD A system for controlling amplifier power is provided. The system includes a voltage envelope detector receiving a voltage signal and generating an attenuated voltage envelope signal. A current envelope detector receives a current signal and generates an attenuated curre... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316632 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE An optical communication device which can be operated at high speed is provided. For example, the optical communication device includes: a pre-amplifier circuit PREAMP1 amplifying a current signal Iin from a photodiode PD, and converting an amplified signal into ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110298542 | Amplifier with Automatic Gain Profile Control and Calibration Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for automatic amplifier gain profile control, including a method for automatically configuring a variable gain profile amplifier according to received input and a variable gain profile amplification system... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110273164 | Delivered power detection for power amplifiers and related systems and methods Delivered power detection for power amplifiers (PAs) and related systems and methods are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments and techniques provide a delivered power indication for systems using PAs, including such systems for cellular telephone applications, allow pow... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110222712 | AUDIO OUTPUT DRIVER FOR REDUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE AND IMPROVING AUDIO CHANNEL PERFORMANCE An audio output circuit includes an on-chip left channel amplifier module, an on-chip center channel amplifier module, and an on-chip right channel amplifier module. A left channel IC pin is operably coupled to an output of the on-chip left channel amplifier module. A r... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110221531 | VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER AND HIGH-FREQUENCY SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME A cascode amplification unit includes a plurality of cascode amplifiers connected in parallel. Each of the cascode amplifiers has two transistors. A cascode current source unit includes a plurality of cascode current sources connected in parallel. Each of the cascode cu... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110181361 | INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIER CALIBRATION METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS Calibration of gain and/or offset of an instrumentation amplifier (INA) is accomplished by coupling an appropriate number of current sources, and/or current sinks, respectively, to first and/or second transconductance stage(s) of the INA. Gain and/or offset calibration ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181271 | PEAKING CIRCUIT, PEAKING CIRCUIT CONTROL METHOD, WAVEFORM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS A peaking circuit according to the present invention includes amplifiers connected in multiple stages and feedback circuits for feedback to an input from two or more output points with different gains as seen from the input. The peaking circuit is configured to be able ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110169572 | PHASE-SHIFT AMPLIFIER A cascode amplifier comprising at least two phase-shift stages controllable between an input transistor having a control terminal connected to an input terminal of the amplifier, and an output terminal of the amplifier.... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110133840 | PRE AND POST FILTER AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL WITH BOUNDED PRE-FILTER GAIN CONTROL An electronic circuit includes a first variable gain amplifier for amplifying a signal at an input to provide a first amplified signal; a filter receiving the first amplified signal to provide a filtered signal; a second variable gain amplifier for receiving and amplify... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110129224 | AMPLIFIER AND OPTICAL MODULE PERFORMING GAIN CONTROL An amplifier includes a first transistor having a first conducting electrode receiving a current, a control electrode coupled to the first conducting electrode, and a second conducting electrode coupled to a fixed voltage source; a second transistor having a first condu... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110121900 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING LIMITING AMPLIFIER PHASE NOISE FOR LOW SLEW-RATE INPUT SIGNALS Apparatus and method for a limiting amplifier with improved phase noise. The improved limiting amplifier includes an input port, an output port, and one or more cascaded gain stages. The input of a first gain stage is connected to the input port of the limiting amplifie... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110102088 | LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT Low noise amplifier circuit. The low noise amplifier circuit includes an amplifier that amplifies an input to provide an output. The amplifier is coupled to an input terminal. The circuit also includes a device in a cascode connection with the amplifier. The circuit fur... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110105067 | LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER A wideband tuneable low noise amplifier that is capable of receiving signals over a wide range of frequencies, providing tuneable filtering to remove out of band interferer signals, and providing variable gain for a wide range of frequencies. To accommodate variable gai... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110080218 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT OF AN INTEGRATOR WITH ENHANCED STABILITY AND RELATED STABILIZATION METHOD An integrated circuit integrator includes a first transconductance amplifier having a gain adjustable based upon a first control signal, and receives, as an input, a signal to be filtered, and generates, as an output, a corresponding amplified signal. The first transcon... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110063034 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL CONTROL OF AMPLIFIER GAIN WITH REDUCED ZIPPER NOISE A digitally-controlled analog gain circuit supports at plurality of gain settings in which gain changes are made from a first setting to a new setting in response to a clocking signal of a non-uniform rate. The non-uniform rate clocking signal can be created pseudo rand... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110057729 | Gain control circuit and its gain control method A gain control circuit and its gain control method, said gain control method comprising the following steps: firstly, outputting continuously a counter value; next, generating a ramp wave signal based on said counter value, and at a voltage where a control voltage signa... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110030452 | KNOCK DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AMPLIFIER CONTROL FOR A KNOCK SIGNAL An apparatus for furnishing an amplified sensor signal of a knock sensor, encompassing an analog amplifier for amplifying the sensor signal in accordance with a first definable gain factor; an analog/digital converter for digitizing the amplified sensor signal into a di... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032036 | PERFORMANCE TUNING USING ENCODED PERFORMANCE PARAMETER INFORMATION A multi-chip system in which at least one of the chips includes a performance parameter encoded thereon. After system assembly, the performance parameter can be obtained by a companion chip and used to automatically or semi-automatically fine tune the companion chip to ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110025420 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A pre-amplifier (column region unit) of a solid-state imaging device including a pixel-signal controller. The pixel-signal controller, for each vertical signal line, detects the level of each pixel signal independently by a pixel-signal detector on the output side of a ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110012679 | HIGH EFFICIENCY MICROWAVE AMPLIFIER Disclosed is an apparatus and method for operating a microwave amplifier with improved efficiency and reduced harmonic emissions. The disclosed amplifier includes a variable rail voltage supply and a variable input drive stage. A controller continually monitors the ampl... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110006846 | HIGH-FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER A high-frequency amplifier is configured in such a manner that a detecting diode 4 and an NPN bipolar transistor 11 of a bias circuit 5 are biased by a common power supply, and that when the amplitude of an envelope signal increases, the bias curren... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100327977 | GAIN CONTROL LINEARITY IN AN RF DRIVER AMPLIFIER TRANSMITTER An exemplary apparatus is disclosed that comprises a plurality of voltage to current transducers to convert an input signal voltage into a plurality of input signal currents and a cascode stage. The cascode stage is coupled to the voltage to current transducers to provi... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100321114 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER USING THE SAME An amplifier circuit includes a variable gain amplifier that amplifies and outputs a signal from an output port, a controller operable to change an gain of the variable gain amplifier, a mixer that mixes the signal output from the output port of the variable gain amplif... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321113 | LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER An amplifier having multiple gain modes comprises a plurality of cascoded input transistors connected to an input and arranged in parallel, a degeneration stage connected to the input transistors and having a variable impedance, and switching means for switching between... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100308917 | De-Pop Controller and Method Thereof A de-pop controller and method thereof are provided. The controller includes an amplifier and a comparator. The amplifier receives and amplifies an audio input signal, and then outputs an audio output signal. The comparator, coupled to the amplifier, receives a transien... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100308916 | Programmable gain MOS amplifier A programmable gain MOS amplifier is disclosed. The programmable gain MOS amplifier is capable of increasing its programmable gain linearly in dB unit by increasing its gain level data linearly. The programmable gain MOS amplifier includes a plurality of gain providers ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100289585 | AMPLIFIER, TRANSMITTER, AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING GAIN An amplifier includes a voltage detector that detects current flowing to a drain terminal of a transistor which amplifies a signal using GaN as a voltage difference by means of voltage conversion, a compensation decision unit that decides whether or not to perform gain ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100283546 | DISTRIBUTED LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER A distributed low noise amplifier (DLNA) comprises at least a first amplifier part 30.1 providing a first path 36.1 form an input of the amplifier to an output of the amplifier and a second amplifier part 30.2 providing a second path 36.2 fro... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100277240 | Self-calibrating gain control system A circuit for self-calibrating a gain control system samples the output of a digital amplifier coupled in series with one or more analog amplifiers to correct errors in a discrete stepped gain control. A digital gain control circuit controls both the digital amplifier a... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100271086 | DUAL-BAND COUPLED VCO In a dual band capable voltage controlled oscillator VCO circuit comprising two voltage controlled oscillator units VCO1, VCO2, the voltage controlled oscillator units VCO1, VCO2 are synchronized and connected via at least two coupled transmi... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100264990 | AMPLIFYING CIRCUIT, AC SIGNAL AMPLIFYING CIRCUIT AND INPUT BIAS ADJUSTING METHOD An amplifying circuit includes: an amplifying unit which amplifies an input signal and applies the amplified signal to a designated load; a current detection unit which detects a load current that flows into the designated load upon application of the amplified signal; ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100266066 | POWER AMPLIFIER AND RADIO WAVE TRANSMITTER HAVING THE SAME A power amplifier (10) comprises: an A/D converter (11) for converting, to a time discrete signal, an envelope signal included in a high-frequency modulated signal and including only an amplitude modulated component of the high-frequency modulated signal; ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100264989 | Variable Gain Amplifier A variable gain amplifier (VGA) disclosed herein includes an input current connector, an output current connector, a gain adjustment connector, scaled current mirrors copying the input current, means for steering the copied currents either to the current output or to an... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100244966 | Amplifier circuit An amplifier circuit performs a characteristic correction process and a smooth curvilinear process on an input signal before being subjected to amplification. The characteristic correction process is a frequency characteristic process, which is performed on the input si... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100237949 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING EFFICIENCY BY MODULATING POWER AMPLIFIER GAIN Aspects of a method and system for enhancing efficiency by modulating power amplifier (PA) gain are presented. Aspects of the system may comprise a PA gain modulator that enables modification of an amplitude of a digital baseband signal. A baseband processor may enable ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100237947 | AMPLIFIER SUPPORTING MULTIPLE GAIN MODES Techniques for designing a low-noise amplifier (LNA) for operation over a wide range of input power levels. In an exemplary embodiment, a first gain path is provided in parallel with a second gain path. The first gain path includes a differential cascode amplifier with ... | 09/23/2010 |
