Patents by Inventor Volker Mauer
Volker Mauer 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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Publication number: 20260178277Abstract: Integrated circuit devices and circuitry for digital filtering are provided. An integrated circuit device may include a first digital signal processing (DSP) block with first hardened arithmetic circuitry and an output register to store an output of the first DSP block and a second DSP block with second hardened arithmetic circuitry and an input register to receive the output of the first DSP block. An input signal chain may include a first set of registers to provide first input data signals to the first DSP block, a second set of registers to provide second input data signals to the second DSP block, and a third set of registers connected between the first set of registers and the second set of registers to provide delay equal to that of the output register of the first DSP block and the input register of the second DSP block.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2024Publication date: June 25, 2026Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Dongdong Chen, Jason Bergendahl, Volker Mauer
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Publication number: 20260180557Abstract: Integrated circuit devices and circuitry for digital filtering are provided. An integrated circuit device may include programmable logic circuitry and a digital signal processing (DSP) block embedded in the programmable logic circuitry having a plurality of hardened multipliers and registers and being configurable to implement a transposed finite impulse response (FIR) filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2024Publication date: June 25, 2026Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Volker Mauer
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Patent number: 12665681Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a filter circuit and a computation circuit that applies emphasis to a data stream in a frequency domain to reduce distortion to the data stream caused by the filter circuit. The emphasis is determined based on the distortion caused by the filter circuit. A circuit design system includes logic synthesis and optimization tools that relax parameters for a first filter circuit to generate relaxed parameters, use the relaxed parameters to generate a second filter circuit that filters data, generate an emphasis vector based on distortion in the data caused by the second filter circuit, and generate a computation circuit that applies the emphasis vector to the data to reduce the distortion in the data caused by the second filter circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: Altera CorporationInventor: Volker Mauer
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Publication number: 20250240020Abstract: A digital signal processing (DSP) block includes a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) unit capable of performing an FFT operation. The FFT unit includes a first FFT engine capable of converting a signal between a time-domain and a frequency-domain and the first FFT engine is a fixed size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a second FFT engine communicatively coupled to the first FFT engine and the second FFT engine is a variable size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a scale/offset block communicatively coupled to the second FFT engine and the scale/offset block is capable of performing a multiplication operation, an addition operation, or a combination thereof on an output of the second FFT engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2025Publication date: July 24, 2025Inventor: Volker Mauer
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Patent number: 12278630Abstract: A digital signal processing (DSP) block includes a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) unit capable of performing an FFT operation. The FFT unit includes a first FFT engine capable of converting a signal between a time-domain and a frequency-domain and the first FFT engine is a fixed size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a second FFT engine communicatively coupled to the first FFT engine and the second FFT engine is a variable size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a scale/offset block communicatively coupled to the second FFT engine and the scale/offset block is capable of performing a multiplication operation, an addition operation, or a combination thereof on an output of the second FFT engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Altera CorporationInventor: Volker Mauer
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Publication number: 20250021305Abstract: Integrated circuit devices, methods, and circuitry for implementing filters based on multipliers in tensor circuits are provided. Integrated circuitry may include a first tensor circuit with a first set of multipliers of a first precision and first summation circuitry and a second tensor circuit with a second set of multipliers of a second precision and second summation circuitry. The first tensor circuit and the second tensor circuit may collectively perform a multiplication operation at a third precision higher than the first precision and the second precision.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Volker Mauer, Gregory Ives, Dongdong Chen, Bogdan Pasca
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Publication number: 20230128025Abstract: Circuitry, systems, and methods are provided for an integrated circuit that includes digital filter circuitry. The digital filtering circuitry includes a first partial filter that includes a first number of taps corresponding to coefficients of a first bit depth and a second partial filter that includes a second number of taps corresponding to coefficients of a second bit depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventor: Volker Mauer
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Publication number: 20230096355Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a filter circuit and a computation circuit that applies emphasis to a data stream in a frequency domain to reduce distortion to the data stream caused by the filter circuit. The emphasis is determined based on the distortion caused by the filter circuit. A circuit design system includes logic synthesis and optimization tools that relax parameters for a first filter circuit to generate relaxed parameters, use the relaxed parameters to generate a second filter circuit that filters data, generate an emphasis vector based on distortion in the data caused by the second filter circuit, and generate a computation circuit that applies the emphasis vector to the data to reduce the distortion in the data caused by the second filter circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventor: Volker Mauer
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Publication number: 20220014199Abstract: A digital signal processing (DSP) block includes a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) unit capable of performing an FFT operation. The FFT unit includes a first FFT engine capable of converting a signal between a time-domain and a frequency-domain and the first FFT engine is a fixed size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a second FFT engine communicatively coupled to the first FFT engine and the second FFT engine is a variable size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a scale/offset block communicatively coupled to the second FFT engine and the scale/offset block is capable of performing a multiplication operation, an addition operation, or a combination thereof on an output of the second FFT engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventor: Volker Mauer
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Patent number: 10136384Abstract: Integrated circuits with wireless communications circuitry are provided. The wireless communications circuitry may include an input FIFO, an output FIFO, a processing module interposed between the input and output FIFOs, and dynamic power control circuitry that controls the performance of the processing module. The input and output FIFOs may provide fill level information to the processing module. The dynamic power control circuitry may analyze the current fill level information received from the input and output FIFOs and may increase the operating frequency and/or boost the power supply voltage of the processing module in response to detecting that the input FIFO is filling up faster than the output FIFO or may decrease the operating frequency and/or reduce the power supply voltage of the processing module in response to detecting that the output FIFO is filling up faster than the input FIFO.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Altera CorporationInventor: Volker Mauer
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Patent number: 10003341Abstract: An arithmetic processing block in which two inputs are provided for a multiplier, the block also including a pre-adder for combining the inputs to provide an additional option for a multiplier input.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Altera CorporationInventor: Volker Mauer
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Patent number: 9966933Abstract: A systolic FIR filter circuit includes a plurality of multipliers, a plurality of sample pre-adders, each respective one of the sample pre-adders connected to a sample input of a respective multiplier, and an output cascade adder chain including a respective output adder connected to a respective multiplier. The output cascade adder chain includes a selectable number of delays between adjacent output adders. An input sample chain has a first leg and a second leg. Each respective one of the sample pre-adders receives a respective input from the first leg and a respective input from the second leg. The input sample chain has, between adjacent sample points in at least one of the legs, a selectable number of sample delays related to the selectable number of output delays. Connections of inputs from the input sample chain to the sample pre-adders are adjusted to account for the selectable number.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: ALTERA CORPORATIONInventors: Volker Mauer, Martin Langhammer
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Patent number: 9748928Abstract: Digital signal processing (“DSP”) block circuitry on an integrated circuit (“IC”) is adapted for use, e.g., in multiple instances of the DSP block circuitry on the IC, for implementing finite-impulse-response (“FIR”) filters that are dynamically adjustable. Advantages of such DSP block circuitries may include an increase in performance and a reduction in logic and memory usage for multi-standard FIR filters.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Altera CorporationInventor: Volker Mauer
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Patent number: 9660624Abstract: Circuitry that efficiently implements loop functions in an integrated circuit is provided. The circuitry combines a feed-forward circuit with a feedback loop that includes a unit delay element in a feedback path. The feedback path may couple the output of a processing element to the input of the processing element. The processing element may implement a function that satisfies commutative, associative, and distributive properties. Combining the feedback loop with the feed-forward circuit may allow for register retiming in the feedback loop and for register pipelining with optional register retiming in the feed-forward circuit. The circuitry may thus trade off an increase in throughput and clock frequency for additional resources.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Nima Safari, Volker Mauer, Shahin Gheitanchi
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Patent number: 9485129Abstract: Integrated circuits with wireless communications circuitry having peak cancelation circuitry operable to perform crest factor reduction is provided. The peak cancelation circuitry may receive at least first and second carrier waveforms and may include at least a first canceling pulse generator (CPG), a second CPG, a first peak detector for performing peak detection on the first waveform, a second peak detector for performing peak detection on the second waveform, a third peak detector for performing peak detection on a combined waveform of the first and second waveforms, and a pulse allocator that receives clipping information from the three peak detectors and that controls the amount of peak cancelation that is being performed by the two CPGs. The allocator may determine whether the combined waveform contains any peaks. In response to determining that the combined waveform does not contain any peaks, the CPGs may be configured in bypass mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Benjamin Thomas Cope, Volker Mauer, Shahin Gheitanchi, Nima Safari
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Patent number: 9438203Abstract: Digital signal processing (“DSP”) block circuitry on an integrated circuit (“IC”) is adapted for use, e.g., in multiple instances of the DSP block circuitry on the IC, for implementing finite-impulse-response (“FIR”) filters that are dynamically adjustable. Advantages of such DSP block circuitries may include an increase in performance and a reduction in logic and memory usage for multi-standard FIR filters.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Altera CorporationInventor: Volker Mauer
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Patent number: 9379687Abstract: A systolic FIR filter circuit includes a plurality of multipliers, a plurality of sample pre-adders, each respective one of the sample pre-adders connected to a sample input of a respective multiplier, and an output cascade adder chain including a respective output adder connected to a respective multiplier. The output cascade adder chain includes a selectable number of delays between adjacent output adders. An input sample chain has a first leg and a second leg. Each respective one of the sample pre-adders receives a respective input from the first leg and a respective input from the second leg. The input sample chain has, between adjacent sample points in at least one of the legs, a selectable number of sample delays related to the selectable number of output delays. Connections of inputs from the input sample chain to the sample pre-adders are adjusted to account for the selectable number.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: ALTERA CORPORATIONInventors: Volker Mauer, Martin Langhammer
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Patent number: 9337782Abstract: Integrated circuits are provided with wireless communications circuitry having digital predistortion (DPD) circuitry, peak canceling circuitry, a power amplifier, and signal conditioning circuitry for controlling the DPD and peak canceling circuitry. The peak canceling circuitry may receive transmit signals and may clip peaks in the transmit signals that exceed a magnitude threshold value. The DPD circuitry may compensate for non-linear characteristics of the power amplifier by outputting a predistorted version of the clipped transmit signals. The power amplifier may receive the predistorted signals and may perform amplification to generate amplified signals. The signal conditioning circuitry may identify power transfer characteristics of the power amplifier and DPD circuitry using the predistorted signals and the amplified signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Volker Mauer, Nima Safari, Shahin Gheitanchi, Richard Maiden
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Patent number: 9036734Abstract: Integrated circuits with wireless communications circuitry having digital predistortion (DPD) circuitry are provided. The digital predistortion circuitry may include a forward path filter, a time domain alignment (TDA) circuit, a frequency domain alignment (FDA) circuit, and an adaption circuit. The TDA circuit may receive power amplifier input signals and power amplifier output signals and may include a cross correlator, a peak detector, and a delay circuit for performing coarse time domain alignment (i.e., to align the power amplifier input and output signals). The FDA circuit may include a fast Fourier transform circuit, a matrix multiplier, and a matrix inverter for performing frequency domain alignment. The adaption circuit may analyze the aligned signals output from the FDA circuit to produce impulse response coefficients that are then used to control the forward path filter. The forward path filter may serve to predistort transmit signals prior to radio-frequency amplification.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Volker Mauer, Shahin Gheitanchi, Benjamin Thomas Cop
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Patent number: 8959136Abstract: Efficient matrix operations circuitry is based on combining a matrix decomposition and a forward substitution operations to share the same processing overhead. A dual multiplier circuit selectively applies complex multiplication operations to a first and second input vectors for computing a conjugate dot product vector or a non-conjugate dot product vector. The conjugate dot product vector corresponds to the matrix decomposition operation for triangulating an input matrix to generate an element of a triangulated matrix. The non-conjugate dot product vector corresponds to a forward substitution operation for determining an element of a forward substitution vector from the triangulated matrix.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Colman C. Cheung, Steven Perry, Volker Mauer, Mark Jervis