Patents by Inventor Hechen Wang

Hechen Wang 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: 10958491
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) based RF-to-digital (RDC) data converter for time domain signal processing polar receivers. Polar data conversion achieves better SNR tolerance owing to its phase convergence near the origin in a polar coordinate. The proposed RDC consists of a TDC for phase detection and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for amplitude conversion. Unlike the conversional data converter, the proposed ADC's sampling position is guided by the detected phase result from the TDC's output. This TDC assisted data-converter architecture reduces the number of bits required for the ADC. In addition, oversampling is no longer needed. With precisely controlled tunable delay cells and gain compensator, this hybrid data convertor is capable to directly convert Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) waveforms and Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (APSK) waveforms directly from the RF signal without down-conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Auburn University
    Inventors: Fa Dai, Hechen Wang
  • Publication number: 20210034947
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture providing an improved Bayesian neural network and methods and apparatus to operate the same are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an oscillator to generate a first clock signal; a resistive element to adjust a slope of a rising edge of a second clock signal; a voltage sampler to generate a sample based on at least one of (a) a first voltage of the first clock signal when a second voltage of the second clock signal satisfies a threshold or (b) a third voltage of the second clock signal when a fourth voltage of the first clock signal satisfies the threshold; and a charge pump to adjust a weight based on the sample, the weight to adjust data in a model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Hechen Wang, Richard Dorrance, Deepak Dasalukunte, David Israel Gonzalez Aguirre
  • Publication number: 20200374165
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) based RF-to-digital (RDC) data converter for time domain signal processing polar receivers. Polar data conversion achieves better SNR tolerance owing to its phase convergence near the origin in a polar coordinate. The proposed RDC consists of a TDC for phase detection and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for amplitude conversion. Unlike the conversional data converter, the proposed ADC's sampling position is guided by the detected phase result from the TDC's output. This TDC assisted data-converter architecture reduces the number of bits required for the ADC. In addition, oversampling is no longer needed. With precisely controlled tunable delay cells and gain compensator, this hybrid data convertor is capable to directly convert Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) waveforms and Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (APSK) waveforms directly from the RF signal without down-conversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Auburn University
    Inventors: Fa Dai, Hechen Wang
  • Patent number: 10785075
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) based RF-to-digital (RDC) data converter for time domain signal processing polar receivers. Polar data conversion achieves better SNR tolerance owing to its phase convergence near the origin in a polar coordinate. The proposed RDC consists of a TDC for phase detection and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for amplitude conversion. Unlike the conversional data converter, the proposed ADC's sampling position is guided by the detected phase result from the TDC's output. This TDC assisted data-converter architecture reduces the number of bits required for the ADC. In addition, oversampling is no longer needed. With precisely controlled tunable delay cells and gain compensator, this hybrid data convertor is capable to directly convert Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) waveforms and Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (APSK) waveforms directly from the RF signal without down-conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Auburn University
    Inventors: Fa Dai, Hechen Wang
  • Publication number: 20190149376
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) based RF-to-digital (RDC) data converter for time domain signal processing polar receivers. Polar data conversion achieves better SNR tolerance owing to its phase convergence near the origin in a polar coordinate. The proposed RDC consists of a TDC for phase detection and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for amplitude conversion. Unlike the conversional data converter, the proposed ADC's sampling position is guided by the detected phase result from the TDC's output. This TDC assisted data-converter architecture reduces the number of bits required for the ADC. In addition, oversampling is no longer needed. With precisely controlled tunable delay cells and gain compensator, this hybrid data convertor is capable to directly convert Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) waveforms and Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (APSK) waveforms directly from the RF signal without down-conversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: Auburn University
    Inventors: Fa Dai, Hechen Wang