Infineon Technologies Ag

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Georg Lipperer

Josef Schmal

Timo Gossmann

Stefan Herzinger

Benno Koeppl

Stephan Weber

Stefan Beyer

Edmund Goetz

Markus Scholz

Shen Feng

Peter Sehrig

A motor is controlled by a motor control signal so that it reaches a target state, which is derived from sensor data sensed by a sensor. The motor can be put into a rest state at the occurrence of an error in simple and efficient manner by means of a safety means generating an alternative motor control signal at the occurrence of the error. Thus, the underlying idea is, instead of redundantly embodying components, to consciously accept a failure and integrate a corresponding fall-back solution into the overall concept. The failure is detected, and the motor is switched off in a user-manageable manner by a targeted shutdown.

Electric motor regulation with controlled error intercept

A transceiver has bidirectional internal interface lines which can be connected to a baseband circuit. The transceiver is switchable by the baseband circuit between a transmission mode and a reception mode. The internal interface lines are connected to at least one quadrature modulator which in the transmission mode is connected to the interface lines, and to a quadrature demodulator which in the reception mode is connected to the interface lines. In the alternative, the demodulator is set to high impedance in the transmission mode and the modulator is set to high impedance in the reception mode.

Transceiver with bidirectional internal interface lines

Offset voltage compensation in baseband in a radio receiver path is achieved by control and programming signals which are required in any case to set the desired states in the circuit module. For this purpose a sequencer is started which is integrated on the module and provides additional control signals that are defined in time, without any additional computation power being required from a separate baseband processor. The offset voltage compensation can be used in receiver and transceiver chips for portable mobile radios, for example for GSM or PCN/PCS.

Method and circuit for compensation control of offset voltages in a radio receiving circuit integrated in a circuit module

A reference stage is provided in order to compensate for manufacturing tolerances, for example relating to the threshold voltage of a transistor. This reference stage has a transistor which is a physical equivalent of the transistor to be trimmed in a radio-frequency amplifier stage. In particular, this reference transistor has the same electrical direct current characteristics as the amplifier transistor. A reference voltage can be tapped off across a resistor on the reference stage and can be supplied to a control amplifier which uses this reference voltage to set the operating point of the radio-frequency amplifier transistor such that manufacturing tolerances are compensated for. Such radio-frequency power amplifiers are used, for example, as transmit amplifiers in mobile radios.

Amplifier circuit

A frequency synthesizer for a radio terminal with which a dual-band and/or dual-mode switchover is possible in a simple manner. The frequency synthesizer has a double phase-locked loop with a high-frequency portion and an intermediate-frequency portion, each with one divider and one counter in a feedback branch. There is at least one memory for holding a plurality of divider values for the counter in the intermediate-frequency portion. The counter in the high-frequency portion is coupled to the memory in such a way that when a new divider value is written into the counter of the high-frequency portion, an associated divider value from the memory is written into the counter of the intermediate-frequency portion. In this way, the frequency generated by the intermediate-frequency divider is adapted to the frequency generated in the high-frequency portion in such a way that the requisite operating frequencies of each active mobile radio system are set automatically. In the same way, the dual-mode switchover can be carried out by coupling a further memory with further divider values for the counter of the high-frequency portion.

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Georg Lipperer