Patents Assigned to T-VAR SEMICONDUCTOR, LLC
  • Publication number: 20100109783
    Abstract: A reconfigurable system is used for amplifying, filtering, and sampling analog signals. Unlike conventional analog filters and amplifiers based on linear time-invariant systems and classical filter responses such as Butterworth or Chebyshev filters, the system described here uses parallel branches comprising time-varying circuits. An input voltage or current is communicated to a number of parallel branches and each branch processes a segment of the input signal using time-varying circuits such as analog multipliers and/or super-regenerative amplifiers. The time-window of the input signal processed by each branch is equal in length, but offset in time from all other branches. The output of each branch is a series of filtered and amplified samples of the input signal. The output samples of all branches are then time-interleaved in the analog domain, or digitized using separate analog-to-digital converters and then time-interleaved digitally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: T-VAR SEMICONDUCTOR, LLC
    Inventor: Jose L. Bohorquez