Abstract: A burn-in apparatus with a radio frequency signal generator is provided. One embodiment includes a printed circuit board to carry a plurality of semiconductor devices for a burn-in process and a radio frequency signal generator mounted on the printed circuit board to provide a plurality of radio frequency signals to the plurality of semiconductor devices respectively during the burn-in process of the plurality of semiconductor devices.

Abstract: Processes and apparatuses for direct current (DC) offset cancellation using digital signal processing. Some embodiments of the invention are summarized in this section. In one embodiment, a circuit includes: an analog receiver; and a feedback circuit comprising a digital signal processor coupled with the analog receiver to generate a feedback signal to the analog receiver.

Abstract: Integrated circuits have expanded a set of custom registers and a read mechanism for control registers. One embodiment includes a circuit having a first set of registers; a second set of registers to be written via one or more write operations addressed to one or more registers of the first set; and a read controller coupled with the first and second sets of registers, the read controller to selectively output a portion of data stored in the first and second sets of registers based on data stored in one or more registers of the second set. In one embodiment, the circuit further includes a logic block; and a multiplexer to select from an output of the logic block and an output of the read controller as an output of the circuit based on the data stored in the one or more registers of the second set.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for blind equalizers with multiple constant modules. In one embodiment, a circuit, includes: a filter to produce an output based on an input that represents a symbol being received, the symbol being one of a Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) constellation; a decision engine coupled to the filter to generate a result indicating one region of a plurality of regions in a QAM constellation diagram, the output of the filter being in the indicated region which includes a plurality of symbols of different radii in the constellation diagram; and an error reduction engine coupled to the decision engine and the filter to reduce a difference between a selected one of a plurality of constants and a modulus of the output; where each of the plurality of constants correspond to one of the plurality of regions; and the selected one of the plurality of constants is selected according to the result of the decision engine.

Abstract: Integrated super-heterodyne television receivers with multiple signal paths implemented using CMOS technology. An integrated circuit, includes: a plurality of CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) low noise amplifiers; an adjustable frequency source; and one or more down-conversion mixers coupled with the adjustable frequency source and the plurality of CMOS low noise amplifiers to form a plurality of super-heterodyne receiving paths between an input to the plurality of CMOS low noise amplifiers and an output from one or more down-conversion mixers; where the integrated circuit is implemented on a single chip of semiconductive substrate.