Patents Assigned to Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11973479
    Abstract: Disclosed are a two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion and an audio terminal. The two-stage audio gain circuit includes a PGA configured to receive an analog audio signal and perform programmable gain amplification processing on the received analog audio signal; an ADC configured to convert the analog audio signal after the programmable gain amplification processing into a digital audio signal and output the digital audio signal; a first AGC gain unit configured to perform a first AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a first gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal; and a second AGC gain unit configured to perform a second AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a second gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liuan Zhang, Yulin Tan, Jon Sweat Duster, Ning Zhang, Haigang Feng, Erkan Alpman
  • Patent number: 11677413
    Abstract: Disclosed are an audio ADC for supporting voice wake-up and an electronic device. The audio ADC includes a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) having an input terminal for receiving an audio signal; a bypass switch having an input terminal for receiving an analog audio signal; and a successive approximation ADC having input terminals respectively connected to output terminals of the PGA and the bypass switch; the PGA gains and amplifies the audio signal, the bypass switch bypasses the PGA, and outputs the analog audio signal; the successive approximation performs analog-to-digital conversion with noise shaping on the analog audio signal after gain amplification at a first sampling rate/oversampling rate when the audio ADC is normal working, and turns off noise shaping when the audio ADC is sleep, performs analog-to-digital conversion on the analog audio signal output by the bypass switch at a second sampling rate/oversampling rate, and outputs to a DSP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Xiaofeng Guo, Jon Sweat Duster, Yulin Tan, Ning Zhang, Haigang Feng
  • Patent number: 11621719
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pre-drive module of an analog-to-digital converter and an analog-to-digital conversion device. The pre-drive module includes a sampling capacitor; a controller configured to output a reset control signal, a pre-sampling control signal, and a sampling control signal according to a preset timing sequence; a reset module configured to reset the sampling capacitor upon receiving the reset control signal; a first auxiliary drive circuit configured to amplify an input analog signal and output to the sampling capacitor for sampling upon receiving the sample control signal; and a second auxiliary drive circuit. The controller is configured to output the pre-sampling control signal before outputting the sampling control signal, control the second auxiliary drive circuit to amplify the input analog signal, and output to the sampling capacitor for pre-sampling, and when a charging voltage of the sampling capacitor during pre-sampling reaches a preset voltage value, output the sampling control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Guo, Erkan Alpman, Jon Sweat Duster, Yulin Tan, Haigang Feng, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 11581900
    Abstract: Disclosed are an analog-to-digital converter error shaping circuit and a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter. The analog-to-digital converter error shaping circuit includes a decentralized capacitor array, a data weighted average module, a mismatch error shaping module, a control logic generation circuit, a digital filter and a decimator. The decentralized capacitor array includes two symmetrically arranged capacitor array units, each capacitor array unit includes a first sub-capacitor array of a high segment bit and a second sub-capacitor array of a low segment bit. The data weighted average module is configured to eliminate correlation between the first sub-capacitor array and an input signal, and the mismatch error shaping module is configured to eliminate correlation between the second sub-capacitor array and the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Xiaofeng Guo, Jon Sweat Duster, Yulin Tan, Ning Zhang, Haigang Feng
  • Patent number: 11342931
    Abstract: A reference voltage controlling circuit and an analog-to-digital converter are disclosed. The reference voltage controlling circuit includes a reference voltage generating circuit, a plurality of groups of sampling switching units and a logic controlling circuit. The DAC capacitor array switches the sampling switching units to a second positive reference voltage and a second negative reference voltage before starting sampling or conversion, and is charged and discharged with the second positive reference voltage and the second negative reference voltage to raise a voltage to a preset voltage. The sampling switching unit is switched to a first positive reference voltage and a first negative reference voltage to charge and discharge the DAC capacitor array to a target voltage. The rising of the voltage from the preset voltage to the target voltage is completed by the first positive reference voltage and the first negative reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Guo, Erkan Alpman, Jon Sweat Duster, Ning Zhang, Yulin Tan, Haigang Feng
  • Patent number: 11296714
    Abstract: A residue transfer loop, a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter and a gain calibration method are disclosed. In particular, the residue transfer loop includes a sampling switch module, a logic controlling circuit, a residue holding capacitor module, a DAC capacitor array, a residue transfer module, a current rudder, a reset switch module and a charge sharing switch module. The logic controlling circuit sequentially outputs control signals according to preset time intervals in a preset period to control the reset switch module, the residue transfer module, the sampling switch module and the charge sharing switch module to work sequentially, thereby realizing a residue transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Guo, Erkan Alpman, Jon Sweat Duster, Haigang Feng, Ning Zhang, Yulin Tan
  • Publication number: 20220045658
    Abstract: Disclosed are a two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion and an audio terminal. The two-stage audio gain circuit includes a PGA configured to receive an analog audio signal and perform programmable gain amplification processing on the received analog audio signal; an ADC configured to convert the analog audio signal after the programmable gain amplification processing into a digital audio signal and output the digital audio signal; a first AGC gain unit configured to perform a first AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a first gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal; and a second AGC gain unit configured to perform a second AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a second gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liuan ZHANG, Yulin TAN, Jon Sweat DUSTER, Ning ZHANG, Haigang FENG, Erkan ALPMAN
  • Publication number: 20220045688
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pre-drive module of an analog-to-digital converter and an analog-to-digital conversion device. The pre-drive module includes a sampling capacitor; a controller configured to output a reset control signal, a pre-sampling control signal, and a sampling control signal according to a preset timing sequence; a reset module configured to reset the sampling capacitor upon receiving the reset control signal; a first auxiliary drive circuit configured to amplify an input analog signal and output to the sampling capacitor for sampling upon receiving the sample control signal; and a second auxiliary drive circuit. The controller is configured to output the pre-sampling control signal before outputting the sampling control signal, control the second auxiliary drive circuit to amplify the input analog signal, and output to the sampling capacitor for pre-sampling, and when a charging voltage of the sampling capacitor during pre-sampling reaches a preset voltage value, output the sampling control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng GUO, Erkan ALPMAN, Jon Sweat DUSTER, Yulin TAN, Haigang FENG, Ning ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220045690
    Abstract: Disclosed are an audio ADC for supporting voice wake-up and an electronic device. The audio ADC includes a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) having an input terminal for receiving an audio signal; a bypass switch having an input terminal for receiving an analog audio signal; and a successive approximation ADC having input terminals respectively connected to output terminals of the PGA and the bypass switch; the PGA gains and amplifies the audio signal, the bypass switch bypasses the PGA, and outputs the analog audio signal; the successive approximation performs analog-to-digital conversion with noise shaping on the analog audio signal after gain amplification at a first sampling rate/oversampling rate when the audio ADC is normal working, and turns off noise shaping when the audio ADC is sleep, performs analog-to-digital conversion on the analog audio signal output by the bypass switch at a second sampling rate/oversampling rate, and outputs to a DSP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Erkan ALPMAN, Xiaofeng GUO, Jon Sweat DUSTER, Yulin TAN, Ning ZHANG, Haigang FENG
  • Patent number: 11082082
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a signal calibration method, apparatus and device generated based on an imbalance of I path and Q path. The method includes sending a cosine signal and a sine signal through a signal generator, transmitting the cosine signal and the sine signal in the I path and the Q path respectively, the cosine signal and the sine signal being configured to loop back to a signal receiving direction after passing through a transmitting amplifier; processing a signal obtained by a down converter in the signal receiving direction; performing a phase adjustment and an amplitude adjustment by adjusting the signal generator, gain amplifiers of I path and Q path analog domains, and a corresponding digital domain, so as to determine an appropriate phase cancellation value and an appropriate amplitude cancellation value for an image signal; and calibrating the image signal corresponding to the signal to be calibrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liuan Zhang, Ning Zhang, Haigang Feng, Jon Sweat Duster, Yulin Tan
  • Patent number: 11057008
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power amplifier and an electrical device. The two-stage power amplifier architecture is tuned staggered before power combining. A previous stage matching network and its input matching are split into a cascaded staggered tuning, such that the center frequency is at frequency point 1 less than the design frequency point and frequency point 2 greater than design frequency point, and then the power combining stage is tuned at the design frequency point. At advanced process nodes (such as 65 nm or below), compared with the known architecture, in-band signal quality and out-of-band filtering effect of the power amplifier chip integrating this architecture will be better when using the same number of transformers (same area), the reliability will be better. Due to its good flatness within the band, this architecture is especially suitable for carrier aggregation communication occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigao Shao, Yulin Tan, Jon Sweat Duster, Haigang Feng, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 10979278
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for compensating an imbalance between an I path and a Q path of a receiver. The method includes: sending a cosine signal and a sine signal through a signal generator, transmitting the cosine signal and the sine signal in the I path and Q path respectively; calculating autocorrelation values of the I path and the Q path in the signal receiving direction; determining a comparison result of amplitudes of the cosine signal received by the I path and the sine signal received by the Q path according to the autocorrelation values; calculating an adjustment compensation value of an analog domain gain amplifier, and an amplitude value and a phase value in a digital domain according to the comparison result of amplitudes; and compensating and adjusting the signal according to the adjustment compensation value, the amplitude value and the phase value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liuan Zhang, Yulin Tan, Ning Zhang, Jon Sweat Duster, Haigang Feng
  • Patent number: 10965304
    Abstract: The present application discloses an N-bit hybrid-structure analog-to-digital converter and an integrated circuit chip including the same, including a pre-stage sampling capacitor array, a post-stage capacitor array and a comparator set and the pre-stage sampling capacitor array including a number of 2N?1 sets of first capacitor array units arranged in parallel, the first capacitor array unit including two sets of parallel capacitor strings, input terminals of parallel capacitor strings respectively being connected to and switchable between differential analog signals and first preset reference signals, output terminals of the parallel capacitor strings respectively being connected to input terminals of the comparator set, input terminals of the post-stage capacitor array respectively being connected to and switchable between output terminals of the comparator set and differential analog signals, output terminals of the post-stage capacitor array being configured as an output terminal of the analog-to-digital
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Guo, Haigang Feng, Jon Sweat Duster, Ning Zhang, Yulin Tan
  • Patent number: 10942884
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dual-edge triggered ring buffer and a communication system. The dual-edge triggered ring buffer includes a logic clock generation module and a data writing module. The logic clock generation module is configured to generate a corresponding first logic clock signal upon detecting an input of the trigger signal corresponding to the multiple first trigger signal input terminals, or to generate a corresponding second logic clock signal upon detecting an input of the trigger signal corresponding to the multiple second trigger signal input terminals. The data writing module is configured to write data output from the external system through the multiple corresponding input terminals according to the first logic clock signal or the second logic clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigao Shao, Yulin Tan, Jon Sweat Duster, Ning Zhang, Haigang Feng
  • Patent number: 10873341
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a capacitor array for an analog-to-digital converter, a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter and a capacitor array board. The capacitor array includes a control logic generation circuit, a control code logic conversion circuit, a first sub-capacitor array and a second sub-capacitor array configured to form different regions of a high-order bit region and a low-order bit region. In the present disclosure, the capacitances of the second capacitor units are equal, so that the second capacitor units can be sequentially switched. Thus, no matter which bit in the second binary code changes, it will not cause a large number of the second capacitor units to switch together, thereby reducing conversion error. In addition, the capacitor array is divided in regions, which avoids the problem of a large number of parallel branches in case where only the second sub-capacitor array is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Guo, Haigang Feng, Jon Sweat Duster, Yulin Tan, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 10804918
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mismatch calibration circuit for a current steering DAC of a SoC baseband chip and a SoC baseband chip. The mismatch calibration circuit includes current mirror compensation circuits, a calibration switching switch module, a calibration resistor, a voltage detection module, and a calibration control module. The resistance of the calibration resistor is 2N?1 times the resistance of the load resistor, where N is the number of MSBs. The number of the current mirror compensation circuits is equal to the number of the MSB current mirror branches. The current mirror compensation circuits are connected in parallel with the MSB current mirror branches to form current mirror parallel branches. The present disclosure minimizes mismatch error between the output currents of the current mirror array in the SoC baseband chip of 28 nm process or even a smaller process dimension, thereby improving conversion accuracy of the DAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Guo, Jon Sweat Duster, Haigang Feng, Ning Zhang, Yulin Tan
  • Publication number: 20200162096
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a capacitor array for an analog-to-digital converter, a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter and a capacitor array board. The capacitor array includes a control logic generation circuit, a control code logic conversion circuit, a first sub-capacitor array and a second sub-capacitor array configured to form different regions of a high-order bit region and a low-order bit region. In the present disclosure, the capacitances of the second capacitor units are equal, so that the second capacitor units can be sequentially switched. Thus, no matter which bit in the second binary code changes, it will not cause a large number of the second capacitor units to switch together, thereby reducing conversion error. In addition, the capacitor array is divided in regions, which avoids the problem of a large number of parallel branches in case where only the second sub-capacitor array is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng GUO, Haigang FENG, Jon Sweat DUSTER, Yulin TAN, Ning ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200127620
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power amplifier and an electrical device. The two-stage power amplifier architecture is tuned staggered before power combining. A previous stage matching network and its input matching are split into a cascaded staggered tuning, such that the center frequency is at frequency point 1 less than the design frequency point and frequency point 2 greater than design frequency point, and then the power combining stage is tuned at the design frequency point. At advanced process nodes (such as 65 nm or below), compared with the known architecture, in-band signal quality and out-of-band filtering effect of the power amplifier chip integrating this architecture will be better when using the same number of transformers (same area), the reliability will be better. Due to its good flatness within the band, this architecture is especially suitable for carrier aggregation communication occasions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigao SHAO, Yulin TAN, Jon Sweat DUSTER, Haigang FENG, Ning ZHANG