Patents by Inventor Esmael Heidari

Esmael Heidari 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).

  • Patent number: 11018673
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to multi-modulus frequency dividers, devices including the same, and associated methods of operation. A method of operating a multi-modulus divider (MMD) may include receiving, at the MMD, an input signal at a first frequency. The method may also include generating, via the MMD, an output signal at a second, lower frequency based on a divisor value. Further, the method may include receiving, at the MMD, an integer value. Moreover, the method may include setting the divisor value equal to the integer value in response to a current state of the MMD matching a common state for the MMD, wherein the MMD is configured to enter the common state regardless of the divisor value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Pancham R. Patel, Esmael Heidari
  • Patent number: 10805117
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an OFDM receiver circuit, which includes an FFT circuit configured to calculate an FFT of a plurality of sample values received by the receiver circuit, and a smoothing circuit configured to identify equalizer coefficients for the sample values by truncating portions of an impulse response of the FFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hamid Shafiee, Mohsen Pourkhaatoun, Kiran Gowda, Siddharth Shetty, Esmael Heidari, Ali Fard, Rahim Bagheri, Masoud Djafari
  • Publication number: 20200153439
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to multi-modulus frequency dividers, devices including the same, and associated methods of operation. A method of operating a multi-modulus divider (MMD) may include receiving, at the MMD, an input signal at a first frequency. The method may also include generating, via the MMD, an output signal at a second, lower frequency based on a divisor value. Further, the method may include receiving, at the MMD, an integer value. Moreover, the method may include setting the divisor value equal to the integer value in response to a current state of the MMD matching a common state for the MMD, wherein the MMD is configured to enter the common state regardless of the divisor value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Pancham R. Patel, Esmael Heidari
  • Patent number: 10581436
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to multi-modulus frequency dividers, devices including the same, and associated methods of operation. A method of operating a multi-modulus divider (MMD) may include determining a common state for the MMD, wherein the MMD is configured to enter the common state regardless of a divisor value applied to the MMD. The method may further include receiving an integer value at the MMD. Further, the method may include setting the divisor value equal to the integer value. The method may also include receiving an input signal at a first frequency and generating an output signal at a second, lower frequency based on the divisor value. The method may also include receiving a second integer value at the MMD. The method may further include setting the divisor value equal to the second integer value in response to a detected current state of the MMD matching the common state for the MMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Pancham R. Patel, Esmael Heidari
  • Patent number: 10122568
    Abstract: A receiver circuit includes a conversion circuit configured to down-convert a received radio-frequency signal to a baseband signal, an analog-to-digital converter configured to sample the baseband signal into a sampled signal, a Fast Fourier transform (FFT) circuit configured to perform an FFT on the sampled signal, and a digital compensation circuit configured to compensate for IQ distortion in a frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hamid Shafiee, Mohsen Pourkhaatoun, Kiran Gowda, Siddharth Shetty, Esmael Heidari, Ali Fard, Rahim Bagheri, Masoud Djafari
  • Publication number: 20180013591
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an OFDM receiver circuit, which includes an FFT circuit configured to calculate an FFT of a plurality of sample values received by the receiver circuit, and a smoothing circuit configured to identify equalizer coefficients for the sample values by truncating portions of an impulse response of the FFT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamid Shafiee, Mohsen Pourkhaatoun, Kiran Gowda, Siddharth Shetty, Esmael Heidari, Ali Fard, Rahim Bagheri, Masoud Djafari
  • Publication number: 20180013605
    Abstract: A receiver circuit includes a conversion circuit configured to down-convert a received radio-frequency signal to a baseband signal, an analog-to-digital converter configured to sample the baseband signal into a sampled signal, a Fast Fourier transform (FFT) circuit configured to perform an FFT on the sampled signal, and a digital compensation circuit configured to compensate for IQ distortion in a frequency domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamid Shafiee, Mohsen Pourkhaatoun, Kiran Gowda, Siddharth Shetty, Esmael Heidari, Ali Fard, Rahim Bagheri, Masoud Djafari