| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 375353000 | PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION | 6 |
| 20110311008 | APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF FOR CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY OF N-PAM ENCODED SIGNALS USING A CONVENTIONAL 2-PAM CDR CIRCUIT - An interface circuit for enabling clock and data recovery (CDR) of N-level pulse amplitude modulation (N-PAM) modulated data streams using a 2-PAM CDR circuit. The circuit comprises a number of N−1 comparators for comparing an input data stream to N−1 configurable thresholds, the input data stream is N-PAM modulated and the N−1 configurable thresholds are N−1 different voltage levels; a number of N−1 of edge detectors respectively connected to the N−1 comparators for detecting transitions from one logic value to another logic value, N is a discrete number greater than two; and a determination unit for determining if the detected transitions is any one of a major transition and a minor transition and asserting a transition signal if only a major transition or a minor transition has occurred, the transition signal is fed into a 2-PAM CDR circuit and utilized for recovering a clock signal of the input data stream. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20140119486 | APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED ENCODING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - An apparatus includes an encoder adapted to encode data bits for transmission via a communication link using pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). The encoder includes a logic circuit. The logic circuit is adapted to perform a logic operation on a pattern of bits and the data bits in order to reduce a run-length and/or improve the DC balance of the data bits. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140270023 | Low-Complexity Estimation of QAM Symbols and Constellations - Disclosed are methods and structures for soft symbol and variance estimation for QAM constellations including a big-flipping framework and efficient methods for soft symbol estimation and variance estimation for QAM. Disclosed are efficient Gray mapping which provides a much lower complexity, i.e., log N for N-QAM for both squared and non-squared QAM constellations. Also disclosed is an approximation method that avoids multiplications completely while exhibiting only a slight performance degradation. Finally, a low complexity method for variance estimations, particularly second moment estimations for both squared and non-squared QAM constellations with Gray mapping are disclosed. Advantageously—using the disclosed methods—the complexity of the second moment estimation is reduced to O((log N)̂2) for an N-QAM symbol for both squared and non-squared QAM. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150131765 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus encodes a transmission target data according to a PAM5 mode to generate PAM signals, applies a pulse shaping to the generated PAM signals with a pulse shaping filter to provide pulse-shaped PAM signals, and inputs the pulse-shaped PAM signals into a digital-analog converter. The pulse shaping filter designates a transfer function G(z) as G1(z)=0.667+0.333ẑ−1 that is approximated to G0(z)=(⅔)+(⅓)ẑ−1. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20160080141 | HOST COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT, CLIENT COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system has a host communication circuit and a client communication circuit, which are connected to each other by means of a single signal wire. The host communication circuit generates a voltage modulated signal on the signal wire based on a reference clock signal, which in each clock cycle has a first period with a significant voltage change based on a clock edge of the reference clock signal, and a second period with a basically constant voltage variation. The host communication circuit (HCC) further can demodulate a current modulated signal received via the signal wire from the client communication circuit. The client communication circuit is configured to detect the significant voltage change in order to generate respective sync pulses in a sync signal, which is used to generate a client clock signal. A current modulation is performed by the client communication circuit based on the data to be transmitted a predetermined settling time after one of the sync pulses until the respective following sync pulse. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160119177 | Semi-Polar Modulator - A modulation processor ( | 04-28-2016 |
