Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| 20090291657 | Sharing AGC Loop Between Demodulator and Spectrum Analysis System Systems and methods for sharing an AGC loop between a wireless data demodulator and a spectrum analysis module that operates simultaneously with the data demodulator. In one embodiment, a predetermined hold time prevents the AGC loop from changing gain too often, thereb... | 11/26/2009 |
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| 20090023408 | ELECTRIC WAVE RECEIVING APPARATUS An electric wave receiving apparatus comprises: an antenna; an amplifier; filter circuits that extract signals in different frequency bands from an output of the amplifier; detector circuits that demodulate time codes from outputs of the filter circuits; automatic gain ... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080160946 | Systems and Methods for Reducing Broadband Image Noise Through a Programmable Bandwidth RF Variable Gain Attenuator Systems for suppressing image noise are provided. In this regard, one embodiment includes a system for suppressing image noise comprising a low noise amplifier (LNA) configured to amplify a received RF signal, an RF variable gain attenuator with an image rejection filte... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20070281653 | MULTIMODE RECEIVER CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS Various embodiments of the present invention adjust an operating mode of a configurable receiver based at least in part on a selected communication service to be provided and an available signal quality. A control unit receives data related to one or more selected commu... | 12/06/2007 |
