Abstract: Aspects of a system for a power amplifier with an on-package matching transformer may include a DC/DC converter that enables generation of a bias voltage level within an IC die based on an amplitude of an input signal to a PA circuit within the IC die. The bias voltage level may be applied to a transformer, which is external to the IC die but internal to an IC package containing the IC die and/or a circuit board containing the IC package. One or more amplifier bias voltage levels, derived from the bias voltage level applied to the transformer, may be applied to the PA circuit.

Abstract: A method for managing operation of a device, the method including performing using one or more processors and/or circuits in a handheld device, the one or more processors and/or circuits including a control device and one or more other devices, functions including receiving from the control device, one or more power setting signals indicative of a desired power level setting. The handheld device may operate utilizing a NORMAL power level setting in a normal mode, or a standby power level setting in standby mode. The standby power level setting may include a LOW power level setting and a sleep mode setting. One or more corresponding power adjustment signals may be generated based on the received one or more power setting signals. Power supplied to the handheld device may be adjusted based on the generated one or more corresponding power adjustment signals.

Abstract: A receiver includes a bandpass filter module, a sample and hold module, a discrete time filter module, and a conversion module. The bandpass filter module is operable to filter an inbound wireless signal to produce a filtered inbound wireless signal having a bandwidth. The sample and hold module is operable to sample and hold, at a rate corresponding to a multiple of the bandwidth of the filtered inbound wireless signal, the filtered inbound wireless signal to produce a frequency domain sample pulse train. The discrete time filter module is operable to filter the frequency domain sample pulse train to produce a filtered sample pulse. The conversion module is operable to convert the filtered sample pulse into an inbound baseband signal.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for accessing, controlling and utilizing a network communication medium. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise a first networked device with power-save capability. The first networked device may acquire control of a communication medium utilizing a medium access protocol, which may be contention-based. The first networked device may utilize the communication medium to communicate information to a second networked device. The first networked device may transfer control of the communication medium to the second networked device, whereby the second networked device may control the communication medium without having to acquire control of the communication medium by utilizing the medium access protocol. The second networked device may utilize the communication medium to communicate information to the first networked device while maintaining control over the communication medium.

Abstract: A communication device includes a memory module that stores a plurality of applications corresponding to a plurality of uses of the communication device. A processing module executes a selected one of the plurality of applications and selects one of a plurality of power modes based on a current one of the plurality of uses of the communication device corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of applications. The processing module generates a power mode signal based on the selected one of the plurality of power modes. A power management circuit receives the power mode signal and that generates a plurality of power supply signals based on the power mode signal.

Abstract: Methods and systems for processing video information are disclosed herein and may comprise calculating at least one vertical gradient of a plurality of adjacent pixels within a current field. A two-field difference may be calculated between a plurality of pixels within a first field and a corresponding plurality of pixels within a second field. At least one pixel may be deinterlaced within the current field based at least in part on the calculated at least one vertical gradient and the calculated two-field difference. The two-field difference may indicate an amount of motion between the plurality of pixels within the first field and the corresponding plurality of pixels within the second field. Phase shifting may be applied to at least one of the plurality of pixels within the first field and the corresponding plurality of pixels within the second field to effect in-phase alignment.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a network device configured to prevent data misalignment of a data packet containing extra header bytes. The network device includes an ingress module having an input interface to receive data. A header detector configured to detect the header bytes of the cell and remove the header from the cell of the data packet is also provided on the network device. A counter determines whether the cell of the data packet contains a multiple of a predetermined bytes. If the counter determines that the cell of the data packet does not satisfy the multiple of the predetermined bytes, an insertion module inserts null bytes into the cell of the data packet to form a modified cell of the data packet. Then, an extraction module removes the null bytes from the modified cell of the data packet when the modified cell exits the network device.

Abstract: A configurable transceiver includes an RF receiver section that generates at least one downconverted signal from a received RF signal. A receiver processing module processes at least one downconverted signal in a plurality of receiver stages to produce a stream of inbound data, wherein the receiver processing module is configurable in response to a control signal to selectively bypass at least one of the plurality of receiver processing stages. A transmitter processing module processes outbound data in a plurality of transmitter stages to produce at least one baseband signal, wherein the receiver processing module is configurable in response to the control signal to selectively bypass at least one of the plurality of transmitter processing stages. An RF transmitter section generates at least one RF signal from the at least one baseband signal.

Abstract: According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a client device including a processor and memory. The client device may be configured to obtain, via a secure communication, a certificate identifying a publically accessible wireless access point (AP) and a public key for the AP, the AP being publically accessible. The client (or client device) may be configured to generate a challenge, send the challenge to the AP, wherein the AP has a private key securely stored in a hardware security module of the AP. The private key may correspond to the public key for the AP. The client may be configured to receive a response from the AP, the response being generated by the AP based on the challenge and the private key for the AP, and authenticate the AP based on the response.

Abstract: An antenna includes an antenna section and a ground plane. The ground plane includes a plurality of inductors that provide a high impedance at the operating frequency of the antenna. The plurality of inductors are implemented via a plurality of inductive elements of an inductive touch screen.

Abstract: A receiver includes an antenna array that generates a plurality of received signals from at least a first remote transmitter and a second remote transmitter. Aa plurality of receiver sections process the plurality of received signals to generate a plurality of down-converted signals. A receiver processing module generates a first plurality of reception matrices corresponding to the first remote transmitter based on the plurality of down-converted signals, generates a first reception statistic from a sum based on the first plurality of reception matrices, and generates an association decision corresponding to one of: the first remote transmitter and the second remote transmitter, based on the first reception statistic.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing parity and/or ECC operations are disclosed. An example method includes determining that an opcode is being transmitted on a bus and determining if the transmitted opcode is a memory operation. In the event the transmitted opcode is a memory write operation, the example method includes calculating a parity bit for data associated with the opcode, writing the calculated parity bit to a parity table and writing the data to a memory. The example method also includes, in the event the transmitted opcode is the memory read operation, recovering data from a previously written memory, calculating a parity bit for the recovered data, recovering a previously stored parity bit for the recovered data, comparing the parity bit for the recovered data with the previously stored parity bit and, in the event the recovered data parity bit does not match the previously stored parity bit, providing an error notification.

Abstract: A system and method for authentication for configuring a customer premises equipment (CPE) in a service provider network. In a multiple dwelling unit (MDU) a customer device (e.g., voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) phone) can be configured with CPE functionality, thereby enabling the customer device CPE to support the provision of service to multiple additional customer devices in a customer premises. A dedicated CPE device is thereby eliminated from the service provider network. The customer device CPE can be designed to support a form of authentication (e.g., Layer 2, Layer 3) that would be sufficient for access by the multiple additional customer devices to various network services.

Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the present invention are provided to compensate for the “envelope effect” that appears to an end user as a result of the sampling and digital processing of near-Nyquist frequency components of a video information signal. Embodiments of the present invention improve image quality by effectively nullifying gamma correction in areas where the envelope effect exists, enabling the human eye to perceive the displayed signal without the envelope effect.

Abstract: A communication link may be managed between the user interface and a system, where the user interface allows a user to select the system. The user interface is determined to be capable of being used with the system. It is communicated that the user interface may be used with the system. The user requests that the user interface be allocated for use with the system. The user interface is allocated for use with the system.

Abstract: One embodiment provides an EPON for transporting RF signals. The system includes a reference clock, an ONU, and an OLT. The ONU includes a mechanism for receiving a frequency and phase-reference signal from the OLT, a mechanism for receiving an RF signal, an ADC for converting the RF signal into a digital signal using a sampling signal associated with the frequency and phase-reference signal, a mechanism for assembling at least a portion of the digital signal into a packet, a mechanism configured to timestamp the packet, and an optical transceiver. The OLT includes a mechanism for receiving the packet, a buffer, a delay mechanism configured to delay reading the received packet from the buffer for a predetermined amount of time, and a DAC for converting the digital signal included in the packet back to RF domain using a clock signal associated with the frequency and phase-reference signal.

Abstract: A method and system for enabling coexistence of a plurality of communication technologies in a communication device is provided. The method includes determining a time offset between a first communication event of a first communication technology of the plurality of communication technologies and a second communication event of a second communication technology of the plurality of communication technologies. The method further includes altering a first communication state of one or more of the first communication technology and the second communication technology to a second communication state based on one or more of the time offset and a plurality of parameters of one or more of the first communication technology and the second communication technology.

Abstract: Embodiments of an aluminum pad thinning in bond pad for fine pitch ultra-thick aluminum pad structures are provided herein. Embodiments include a conductive structure formed on a substrate. A first passivation layer is formed over the substrate and the conductive structure, the first passivation layer having an opening formed over the conductive structure. An ultra-thick conductive structure having a thinned trench region formed over the opening of the first passivation layer. The ultra-thick conductive structure is in contact with the conductive structure. A second passivation layer formed over the first passivation region and the ultra-thick conductive structure. The second passivation layer having an opening formed over the thinned trench region of the ultra-thick conductive structure.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for operating an electronic component, such as an NEC communication device, allow performance of at least one operation based, at least in part, on the relative positions and/or motions of the electronic component over time. Information regarding motion of the electronic component is used to determine one or more actions, or one or more state changes of the electronic component. Such an electronic component is motion-aware. Since this motion-awareness gives the electronic component the ability to take one or more actions, or to make one or more state changes, based, at least in part, on information indicative of its relative position or motions over time, various states and/or functions of the electronic device may be initiated and/or controlled by subjecting it to one or more movements or motions.

Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for utilizing Givens rotation expressions for asymmetric beamforming matrices in explicit feedback information are presented. In one aspect of the invention, Givens matrices may be utilized to reduce a quantity of information communicated in explicit feedback information via an uplink RF channel. The explicit feedback information may include specifications for a feedback beamforming matrix that may be utilized when transmitting signals via a corresponding downlink RF channel. The feedback beamforming matrix may represent a rotated version of an un-rotated matrix. The Givens matrices may be utilized to apply one or more Givens rotations to un-rotated matrix. The feedback beamforming matrix may be computed based on a matrix product of a plurality of Givens matrices. The feedback beamforming matrix may be encoded utilizing fewer bits than may be required to encode the un-rotated matrix.