Patents by Inventor Giuseppe Li Puma

Giuseppe Li Puma has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7835457
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for processing a received signal which comprises phase-shift modulated or amplitude-quadrature modulated part-signals which are transmitted in a plurality of different frequency bands, wherein the received signal is processed in a plurality of stages in succession, by multiplying all the input signals to each of the stages by two mutually orthogonal signals in each case to form two intermediate signals in each case, wherein the intermediate signals from one stage in each case act as the input signals to whichever is the succeeding stage in the particular case and the received signal acts as the input signal to the first stage, and wherein an in-phase and/or an quadrature component of the individual part-signals in the different frequency bands are determined from the intermediate signals from the last stage. Parallel, simultaneous reception of a plurality of frequency bands can be implemented relatively easily in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Martin Friedrich, Christian Grewing, Giuseppe Li Puma, Christoph Sandner, Andreas Wiesbauer, Kay Winterberg, Stefan Van Waasen
  • Patent number: 7817970
    Abstract: The transmitting/receiving device has a polar modulator with a variable predistorter (11, 12) and an amplifier (8) which can be modulated, a reception path (25) which can be operated both during conventional reception and for the purposes of adjustment of the predistorter (11, 12) in order to determine a measurement signal (35) which is dependent on the output signal from the amplifier (8), and a coupling path for coupling of the reception path (25) to the output from the amplifier (8). A control and evaluation means (34, 36) is additionally provided for adjustment of the predistorter (11, 12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Giuseppe Li Puma
  • Patent number: 7805124
    Abstract: Frequency pattern generator (1, 101, 201) for generating frequency pulses, said generator having a first local oscillator unit (2-1, 121, 221) for generating a first radio frequency carrier frequency signal (LO1), at least one second local oscillator unit (2-2, . . . 2-N, 122, 222) for generating at least one second radio frequency carrier frequency signal (LO2), a switching device (3, 103, 203) for passing on one of the radio frequency carrier frequency signals (LO1, LO2) or a zero signal (DC) in a manner dependent on a control signal (CTR), and a mixing stage (9, 109, 209, 212, 309) for mixing the signal (LO) that has been passed on by the switching device (3, 103, 203) with a mixing frequency signal (LF) to form a pulsed output signal (RFOUT), the pulsed output signal (RFOUT) having frequency pulses at a respective frequency (f1, . . . f8) and length (Tp) in a manner dependent on the control signal (CTR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Martin Friedrich, Christian Grewing, Giuseppe Li Puma, Christoph Sandner, Andreas Wiesbauer, Kay Winterberg, Stefan Van Waasen
  • Patent number: 7777578
    Abstract: An oscillator is disclosed that is tunable to discrete values, and includes a tuning element which can be connected via a switching device. A rectifier circuit is connected to the output of the oscillator and forms a clock signal from the oscillator signal. The oscillator circuit contains a phase delay circuit having a switching input, a clock signal input which is coupled to the output of the rectifier circuit, and a switching output coupled to the switching device. The phase delay circuit has a comparison circuit for comparison of a phase of the clock signal that is applied to the signal input with a reference phase. This phase delay circuit is designed to emit a switching signal after application of an activation signal to the switching input and after the phase of the clock signal which is applied to the signal input matches the reference phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Belitzer, Stefan Herzinger, Giuseppe Li Puma
  • Patent number: 7751513
    Abstract: A first signal path having an amplifier and a second signal path having an amplifier with adjustable gain factor are provided. A signal applied to the first and second signal paths is amplified and demodulated on the first signal path. Concurrently, the signal is amplified on the second signal path with a gain factor, and a power of the signal amplified by the second signal path is determined and used for determining the gain factor. A signal conditioning circuit has first and second signal paths and a first and a second operating state. In the first operating state, the first signal path is arranged for amplification for a demodulation, and the second signal path is arranged for amplification for determination of a power of the signal present. In the second operating state, one of the two signal paths is inactive and the other is arranged for demodulating the signal present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Carsten Eisenhut, Jens Kissing, Giuseppe Li Puma, Dietolf Seippel, Nenad Stevanovic
  • Patent number: 7733184
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement and method for power regulation and an amplifier arrangement for power regulation are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Belitzer, Michael Feltgen, Giuseppe Li Puma, Christian Vieth
  • Patent number: 7643572
    Abstract: The modulator according to the invention is based on the modulation of a PLL, with the bandwidth of the PLL being variable. The modulator also has a means (14, 15) for determination of a signal (?r(kTs); FDEV) which is characteristic of the modulation shift of the modulated signal. Furthermore, the modulator contains a comparison means (16) for comparison of this signal with a signal (?(kTs+?); FDEVNOM) which is characteristic of the nominal modulation shift, as well as a means (18) for variation of the bandwidth as a function of the output signal from the comparison means (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Giuseppe Li Puma
  • Publication number: 20090275358
    Abstract: A two-point polar modulator for generating a polar-modulated signal based on an amplitude information and a phase information includes a two-point modulation phase-locked loop which is implemented to enable a frequency setting depending on a first control value via a feedback path of the two-point modulation phase-locked loop and to enable a frequency setting depending on a second control value, directly, bypassing the feedback path, wherein the two-point modulation phase-locked loop is implemented to provide a phase-locked loop output signal depending on the two control values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Feltgen, Giuseppe Li Puma
  • Publication number: 20090275359
    Abstract: A polar modulator for generating a polar-modulated signal based on amplitude information and phase information includes a phase-locked loop which is implemented to enable a setting of a frequency depending on a control value to obtain a phase-locked loop output signal. The polar modulator further includes a modulation means which is implemented to combine an amplitude modulation signal derived from the amplitude information with the phase-locked loop output signal to generate the polar-modulated signal. The polar modulator further includes a control value generator which is implemented to high-pass filter an amplitude signal derived from the amplitude information, to obtain a high-pass filtered amplitude signal, wherein the control value generator is implemented to combine the high-pass filtered amplitude signal with a phase signal based on the phase information to generate the control value signal representing the control value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Giuseppe Li Puma, Michael Feltgen
  • Patent number: 7570930
    Abstract: An amplifier arrangement contains a first signal input for supplying a carrier signal, a second signal input for supplying an amplitude modulation word and an amplifier stage. The amplifier stage is connected to a reference potential connection and, by means of a control connection via a means for DC signal suppression, to the first signal input. A DC voltage converter having a first connection for supplying a potential is designed to convert the potential into a supply potential, which is variable over a period of time, on the basis of a control signal, and outputs the supply potential to the second connection of the amplifier stage. In addition, the amplifier arrangement comprises a digital/analog converter which is coupled to the control connection of the amplifier stage. The input of the converter is connected to the second signal input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Carsten Eisenhut, Nenad Stevanovic, Giuseppe Li Puma
  • Patent number: 7567626
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radio receiver for the reception of a data burst which is transmitted by a transmitter, in which case the data burst includes a first section which has been modulated using a first modulation method at the transmitter end, and a second section which is transmitted after the first section and has been modulated using a second modulation method at the transmitter end. The radio receiver has a first reception path for processing of the first section and a second reception path for processing of the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Markus Hammes, Giuseppe Li Puma
  • Patent number: 7554472
    Abstract: A sigma-delta modulator arrangement is disclosed that has a mechanism for breaking down a data word of the input signal into subwords with a different significance. The disclosed sigma-delta modulator arrangement also has a plurality of sigma-delta modulators whose inputs are assigned to respective subwords of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Inventor: Giuseppe Li Puma
  • Patent number: 7545885
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus for a mobile communications system which can be modulated using different modulation types at the transmitter end. According to one embodiment of the invention, in the middle of a data burst of a Bluetooth communications system, a GFSK modulation method is switched to an M-DPSK modulation method, which is used for the payload data. A frequency offset estimation unit is provided for GFSK-modulated signals in a first receiving section and estimates the frequency offset by averaging over a bit sequence of a trailer of a data burst. The frequency offset is corrected in a second receiving section, by means of a frequency correction unit which operates on the basis of the CORDIC algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Giuseppe Li Puma, Markus Hammes
  • Publication number: 20090079504
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement and method for power regulation and an amplifier arrangement for power regulation are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Belitzer, Michael Feltgen, Giuseppe Li Puma, Christian Vieth
  • Publication number: 20090075603
    Abstract: The invention relates to an integrated circuit in a mobile radio transceiver. This circuit includes a radio-frequency assembly for producing a mobile radio signal and a modulator for converting transmission data into an analogue, modulated transmission signal which is broadcast in a frequency band outside the mobile radio frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Giuseppe Li Puma, Klaus Getta
  • Patent number: 7492295
    Abstract: A self-adapting analogue-to-digital converter includes a forward path with a voltage divider coupled to a digital integrator. In a feedback path, a scaler is connected to a digital-to-analogue converter. A control unit provides control signals for the voltage divider and the scaler in response to the output word of the digital integrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Giuseppe Li Puma, Michael Feltgen, Christian Vieth
  • Patent number: 7453325
    Abstract: A single-point modulator (1) has a PLL circuit (2) and a programmable frequency divider (7) whose control connection is connected to a circuit branch for injecting a digital modulation signal (15) which is arranged in the feedback path of the PLL circuit (2). The circuit branch contains a sigma-delta modulator (9) which, in turn, has a digital filter (24) having a transfer function H(z). The noise transfer function NTF(z) of the sigma-delta modulator (9) is given by the function NTF(z)=1?H(z).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Markus Hammes, Giuseppe Li Puma, Stefan Van Waasen
  • Patent number: 7450913
    Abstract: Circuit arrangement for a wideband mixer (1, 101, 201) with a multiplicative mixing stage (2) which exhibits a carrier frequency input (3, 4) for coupling in a differential carrier frequency signal (LOP, LON), a mixing stage input (5, 6) for coupling in a predistorted differential input signal (LFPD, LFND), and an output (9, 10) for coupling out a differential output signal (OUTP, OUTN) which is generated from the differential carrier frequency signal (LOP, LON) and the predistorted differential input signal (LFPD, LFND) by multiplicative mixing, the predistorted differential input signal (LFPD, LFND) being generated from a differential input signal (LFP, LFN) by means of a quadratic predistortion and a linear predistortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Martin Friedrich, Christian Grewing, Giuseppe Li Puma, Christoph Sandner, Andreas Wiesbauer, Kay Winterberg, Stefan Van Waasen
  • Publication number: 20080272951
    Abstract: A self-adapting analogue-to-digital converter includes a forward path with a voltage divider coupled to a digital integrator. In a feedback path, a scaler is connected to a digital-to-analogue converter. A control unit provides control signals for the voltage divider and the scaler in response to the output word of the digital integrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Giuseppe Li Puma, Michael Feltgen, Christian Vieth
  • Patent number: 7430265
    Abstract: The invention specifies a circuit arrangement with a phase locked loop (1), which can be used as a mobile radio transmitter, in particular. The reference frequency for the PLL (1), which is provided by means of the source (3), is multiplied by a multiplier (10) and is down-converted to an intermediate-frequency level in a down-conversion mixer (9) using the output signal from the PLL, and is evaluated such that a modulator (13) connected to the input of the oscillator (6) can be trimmed. The inventive principle is used to advantage in two-point modulators and allows inexpensive, integratable mobile radio transmitters with good noise characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Convent, Markus Hammes, André Hanke, Giuseppe Li Puma, Walter Mevissen