Patents by Inventor Aurélien LARIE
Aurélien LARIE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10951171Abstract: Power amplifiers and related methods are disclosed having configurable switched mode operation in a high-power mode of operation and a low-power mode of operation. The power amplifiers have a first cascode amplifier coupled to receive a positive differential input and a second cascode amplifier coupled to receive a negative differential input. The first and second cascode amplifiers include output stages and first/second input stages. The first input stages and the second input stages are enabled in a high-power mode of operation. The first input stages are disabled and the second input stages are enabled during a low-power mode of operation. For further embodiments, a switchable clamp operates in the low-power mode to clamp a voltage output for the second input stages. For further embodiments, the output stages are provided a variable voltage bias or are coupled to tunable capacitances that are varied between the low-power and high-power modes.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Maicol Cannella, Aurelien Larie, Stefano Dal Toso
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Publication number: 20200195199Abstract: Power amplifiers and related methods are disclosed having configurable switched mode operation in a high-power mode of operation and a low-power mode of operation. The power amplifiers have a first cascode amplifier coupled to receive a positive differential input and a second cascode amplifier coupled to receive a negative differential input. The first and second cascode amplifiers include output stages and first/second input stages. The first input stages and the second input stages are enabled in a high-power mode of operation. The first input stages are disabled and the second input stages are enabled during a low-power mode of operation. For further embodiments, a switchable clamp operates in the low-power mode to clamp a voltage output for the second input stages. For further embodiments, the output stages are provided a variable voltage bias or are coupled to tunable capacitances that are varied between the low-power and high-power modes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Maicol Cannella, Aurelien Larie, Stefano Dal Toso
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Patent number: 10418938Abstract: A voltage-controlled oscillator, including a voltage-controlled LC resonator including at least one first output node; an amplifier including at least one first dual-gate MOS transistor including first and second gates, coupling the first output node to a second node of application of a reference potential; and a regulation circuit capable of applying to the second gate of the first transistor a bias voltage variable according to the amplitude of the oscillations of a signal delivered on the first output node of the oscillator.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: COMMISSARIAT Á L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Baudouin Martineau, José-Luis Gonzalez Jimenez, Aurélien Larie
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Patent number: 10164608Abstract: Switch comprising at least one PCM portion that can be in a conducting or blocked state depending on the amorphous or crystalline state of the PCM that can change state when it is heated, in which the PCM portion is continuous and has an elongated shape such that an input and an output of the switch are connected to two ends of the PCM portion respectively that are separated from each other by a distance corresponding to the largest dimension of the PCM portion, and comprising a control device of the state of the switch capable of passing heating currents through the PCM portion, approximately perpendicular to the largest dimension of the PCM portion, from at least two input points separated from each other and separated from the ends of the PCM portion, to at least two output points separated from each other and separated from the ends of the PCM portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Didier Belot, Aurelien Larie, Baudouin Martineau
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Publication number: 20180138894Abstract: Switch comprising at least one PCM portion that can be in a conducting or blocked state depending on the amorphous or crystalline state of the PCM that can change state when it is heated, in which the PCM portion is continuous and has an elongated shape such that an input and an output of the switch are connected to two ends of the PCM portion respectively that are separated from each other by a distance corresponding to the largest dimension of the PCM portion, and comprising a control device of the state of the switch capable of passing heating currents through the PCM portion, approximately perpendicular to the largest dimension of the PCM portion, from at least two input points separated from each other and separated from the ends of the PCM portion, to at least two output points separated from each other and separated from the ends of the PCM portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Didier BELOT, Aurelien LARIE, Baudouin MARTINEAU
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Publication number: 20170257063Abstract: A voltage-controlled oscillator, including a voltage-controlled LC resonator including at least one first output node; an amplifier including at least one first dual-gate MOS transistor including first and second gates, coupling the first output node to a second node of application of a reference potential; and a regulation circuit capable of applying to the second gate of the first transistor a bias voltage variable according to the amplitude of the oscillations of a signal delivered on the first output node of the oscillator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Baudouin MARTINEAU, José-Luis GONZALEZ JIMENEZ, Aurélien LARIE
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Patent number: 9712116Abstract: An amplifier includes at least two amplification stages coupled in parallel. Each amplification stage includes at differential pair of amplifying MOS transistors having gates connected to a first and second input nodes common to amplifying stages, and bulk regions connected to each other but insulated from bulk regions of the amplifying MOS transistors of the other amplification stages. A configuration circuit generates bias voltage for application to the bulk terminals in each amplification stage to set the threshold voltages of the amplifying MOS transistors, and thus configuring the operating range of each amplification stage so that different amplification stages have different operating ranges.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: STMicroelectronics SAInventors: Lionel Vogt, Baudouin Martineau, Aurelien Larie
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Publication number: 20160173036Abstract: An amplifier includes at least two amplification stages coupled in parallel. Each amplification stage includes at differential pair of amplifying MOS transistors having gates connected to a first and second input nodes common to amplifying stages, and bulk regions connected to each other but insulated from bulk regions of the amplifying MOS transistors of the other amplification stages. A configuration circuit generates bias voltage for application to the bulk terminals in each amplification stage to set the threshold voltages of the amplifying MOS transistors, and thus configuring the operating range of each amplification stage so that different amplification stages have different operating ranges.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: STMicroelectronics SAInventors: Lionel Vogt, Baudouin Martineau, Aurelien Larie