Patents by Inventor John Pacourek

John Pacourek 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: 7630464
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide analog-to-digital interface techniques. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an integrated circuit includes an offset cancellation circuit provides offset cancellation for input signal paths under control of at least a first clock signal. A comparator, coupled to the offset cancellation circuit, provides an output signal based on a comparison of input signals provided on the input signal paths. A register receives the output signal and provides the output signal to a digital circuit under control of a first control signal, wherein the at least first clock signal is synchronized to a clock signal of the digital circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Frederic Deboes, John Pacourek, Tom Cook
  • Patent number: 6262616
    Abstract: A technique for compensating for supply voltage variations in a delay circuit by utilizing a bias circuit to maintain the delay substantially constant with respect to the supply voltage. The bias circuit generates a bias current having a fixed component and a variable component, in which the variable component varies proportionately to variations in the supply voltage to maintain the delay substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishnu S. Srinivasan, John Pacourek, John James Paulos
  • Patent number: 6081783
    Abstract: An audio decoder 100 for operating on a received compressed audio data stream compressed using an algorithm employing transform encoding and a bit allocation routine. A first processor 200 performs a first set of operations on the received compressed audio data stream including parsing the compressed audio data stream, recovering data fields within the compressed audio data stream, calculating a bit allocation, and passing frequency domain coefficients to shared memory. A second digital signal processor 100b performs a second set of operations on data passed from the first digital signal processor to shared memory including performing inverse transform operations on the data passed from the first digital signal processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: James Divine, Jeffrey Niehaus, Miroslav Dokic, Raghunath Rao, Terry Ritchie, Baker Scott, III, John Pacourek, Zheng Luo
  • Patent number: 5907263
    Abstract: A voltage controlled oscillator with bias current calibration includes a voltage controlled oscillator 1504. A tuning current source 1510 is coupled to oscillator 1504 in parallel with bias current source 1512 for providing a tuning current to oscillator 1504. A selected control voltage is provided by oscillator 1504 for setting an oscillator output frequency. Control circuitry 1513, 1514 allows adjusting of the tuning current source to optimize bias current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: James Divine, Jeffrey Niehaus, John Pacourek, Baker Scott, III