Patents by Inventor Mohamed Elkholy

Mohamed Elkholy 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).

  • Publication number: 20250211259
    Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes: a first amplifier coupled to a first node of a receiver signal processing path, the first amplifier to receive and amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal; a first resistive attenuator coupled to the first node, the first resistive attenuator programmable to reduce a level of the RF signal; a second amplifier coupled in parallel with the first amplifier, the second amplifier to receive and amplify the RF signal; and a second attenuator coupled between the first node and the second amplifier, the second attenuator programmable to reduce the level of the RF signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Abdulkerim Coban, Mohamed Elkholy, Rangakrishnan Srinivasan, Sherry Wu, Yu Su
  • Patent number: 12015343
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes: enabling a pulse pair circuit of an integrated circuit in response to determining that a receiver associated with the integrated circuit is active; identifying that at least one comparator of a multi-output DC-DC converter trips, the DC-DC converter having a plurality of comparators each to compare a regulated voltage output by the DC-DC converter to a corresponding reference voltage; and generating, in the pulse pair circuit, a control pulse pair according to the tripped output, and driving a driver circuit of the DC-DC converter using the control pulse pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Hatem Osman, Michael D. Mulligan, Mohamed Elkholy
  • Publication number: 20230170799
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes: enabling a pulse pair circuit of an integrated circuit in response to determining that a receiver associated with the integrated circuit is active; identifying that at least one comparator of a multi-output DC-DC converter trips, the DC-DC converter having a plurality of comparators each to compare a regulated voltage output by the DC-DC converter to a corresponding reference voltage; and generating, in the pulse pair circuit, a control pulse pair according to the tripped output, and driving a driver circuit of the DC-DC converter using the control pulse pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Hatem Osman, Michael D. Mulligan, Mohamed Elkholy
  • Patent number: 11323029
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter including converter circuitry, a voltage detector providing a low voltage signal, and pulse-pairing circuitry. The converter circuitry may be configured according to a buck or a boost configuration switching between a zero and peak current levels. The pulse-pairing circuitry includes a paired pulse generator, a load detector, and a maximum on timing controller. In response to the low voltage signal, the paired pulse generator activates an on signal for a pair of equal duration on pulses separated by a predetermined pulse separation interval. The on time periods are based on an adjustable time value and a peak current indication. The load detector provides a load adjust signal for adjusting the time value based on sampling the low voltage signal and an off time signal at the start of the second pulse. The maximum on timing controller adjusts the adjustable time value based on the load adjust signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Elkholy, Anil Shirwaikar
  • Publication number: 20210336539
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter including converter circuitry, a voltage detector providing a low voltage signal, and pulse-pairing circuitry. The converter circuitry may be configured according to a buck or a boost configuration switching between a zero and peak current levels. The pulse-pairing circuitry includes a paired pulse generator, a load detector, and a maximum on timing controller. In response to the low voltage signal, the paired pulse generator activates an on signal for a pair of equal duration on pulses separated by a predetermined pulse separation interval. The on time periods are based on an adjustable time value and a peak current indication. The load detector provides a load adjust signal for adjusting the time value based on sampling the low voltage signal and an off time signal at the start of the second pulse. The maximum on timing controller adjusts the adjustable time value based on the load adjust signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Mohamed Elkholy, Anil Shirwaikar
  • Patent number: 10141971
    Abstract: Embodiments of transceiver circuits disclosed herein include a first amplifier coupled to receive signals from an antenna during a receive (RX) mode of the transceiver circuit, a second amplifier coupled to transmit signals to the antenna during a transmit (TX) mode of the transceiver circuit, and a single impedance matching network coupled to the antenna and directly connected to a shared node to which the first and second amplifiers are directly connected. The single impedance matching network is configured to transform an impedance of the antenna into a resistance at the shared node. A control circuit is coupled to control the impedance transformation of the single impedance matching network, so as to provide a first resistance at the shared node during RX mode and a second resistance at the shared node during TX mode, wherein the second resistance is different from the first resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Elkholy, Ayman Shafik, Yang Gao, Arup Mukherji, Navin Harwalkar
  • Patent number: 10128857
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a radio receiver includes: a programmable frequency synthesizer to generate a first clock signal; a first frequency divider to divide the first clock signal to generate a master clock signal; a second frequency divider to divide the master clock signal to generate a mixing signal; and a mixer to downconvert a radio frequency (RF) signal to a second frequency signal using the mixing signal. A voltage converter to couple to the radio receiver includes a switch controllable to switchably couple a first voltage to a storage device and a pulse generator to generate at least one pulse pair formed of a first pulse and a second pulse substantially identical to the first pulse, when a second voltage is less than a first threshold voltage, the second pulse separated from the first pulse by a pulse separation interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Elkholy, Ahmed Emira