Patents Assigned to ST-Ericsson PVT. Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8787588
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a low pin architecture to couple speakers with integrated circuits are disclosed herein. In an implementation, the low pin architecture facilitates in reducing the required pin interfaces to couple a low power speaker, a high power speaker, and earphone speakers with integrated circuits (ICs). For this, the high power speaker can be cross-coupled between the pin interfaces that are coupled to the low power speaker and the earphone speakers. These pin interfaces are driven by corresponding driver circuits. In said implementation, some of the driver circuits can be shared to drive multiple pin interfaces. These shared driver circuits include a combined cascode circuit having a first cascode circuit integrated with a second cascode circuit to reliably and selectively drive one or more of the pin interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: ST-Ericsson SA, ST-Ericsson PVT. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Ranganathan, Shyam Somayajula, Srinath Sridharan, Arnold D'Souza, Ramkishore Ganti, Lionel Cimaz