Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Harold Kutz

Eashwar Thiagarajan

Warren S Snyder

Timothy John Williams

Monte F Mar

Bert Sullam

Mark E Hastings

David Gordon Wright

Dennis Raymond Seguine

Erhan Hancioglu

Hans Klein

Gajender Rohilla

Bruce E Byrkett

James H Shutt

Jaskarn Singh Johal

Jean-Paul Vanitegem

Amsby D Richardson, Jr

Kendall V Castor-Perry

Nathan Wayne Kohagen

Eric N Mann

Rajiv Singh

Ata Khan

Onur Ozbek

Eric D Blom

Anasuya Pai Maroor

Haneef D Mohammed

Carl Liepold

Andrew C Page

Mark W Rouse

Mohandas Palatholmana Sivadasan

Adrian B Early

Warren S Synder

Melany Ann Richmond

Vaibhav Ramamoorthy

Renee Leong

Andrew J Walker

Helmut Puchner

Hans Van Antwerpen

Gary Peter Moscaluk

Craig Nemecek

Jason Faris Muriby

Thurman John Rodgers

John J Silver

Morgan Andrew Whately

Greg Verge

Kyle Kearney

Jeffrey Erickson

Robert Walter Metzler, Jr

Eashwar Thiagaragen

Garthik Venkataraman

Tim Williams

Kendall Castor-perry

Amsby Richardson

Jaskam Singh Johal

Implementations disclosed describe an integrated circuit (IC) having a plurality of reconfigurable analog circuits that include a finite state machine (FSM) logic circuit and further include an interface to receive an input signal. In a first IC configuration, with the plurality of reconfigurable analog circuits having a first configuration setting, the IC may process the input signal through the plurality of reconfigurable analog circuits to generate a first output value based on the input signal. Responsive to the FSM logic circuit processing the first output value, the IC may reconfigure the plurality of reconfigurable analog circuits into a second IC configuration having a second configuration setting.

Ultra-low power adaptively reconfigurable system

An integrated circuit can include an amplifier coupled to receive an analog input signal, an anti-aliasing filter (AAF) coupled to an output of the amplifier, a buffer circuit coupled to an output of the AAF, a sigma-delta modulator configured to generate a digital data stream in response to an output of the buffer, and a plurality of chopping circuits nested within one another, including a first pair of chopping circuits having at least the amplifier disposed therebetween and configured to remove offset in the analog input signal, and a second pair of chopping circuit having at least the first pair of chopping circuits disposed therebetween. The amplifier, AAF, sigma-delta modulator, and chopping circuits can be formed with the same integrated circuit substrate. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Programmable chopping architecture to reduce offset in an analog front end

Implementations disclosed describe a programmable analog subsystem (PASS) having a plurality of reconfigurable analog circuits. The PASS may be coupled to an input/output device to receive an input signal and to an interface to communicate data with a central processing unit. In a first PASS configuration, with the plurality of reconfigurable analog circuits having a first configuration setting, the PASS may process the input signal through the plurality of reconfigurable analog circuits to generate a first output value based on the input signal. Responsive to the first output value, the PASS may reconfigure the plurality of reconfigurable analog circuits into a second PASS configuration having a second configuration setting, such that the second configuration setting is different than the first configuration setting.

One or more systems and/or methods for implementing an analog-to-digital converter system with a floating digital channel configuration are provided. An analog input component is configured to receive measured analog signals, and output analog signals, corresponding to the measured analog signals, to an analog channel coupled to the analog input component. The analog channel is coupled to a switching component connected to a first digital channel and a second digital channel. The analog channel comprises a modulator configured to convert the analog signals into a data stream selectively input by the switching component to the first digital channel or the second digital channel.

Analog to digital converter with floating digital channel configuration

A method can include modulating an amplified analog signal into a digital data stream, filtering the digital data stream with a first filter, generating gain control values associated with amplified analog signal based on the filtered data stream with the first filter and filtering the digital data stream with a second filter, and generating output digital values associated with the amplified analog signal based on the filtered data stream with the second filter. Corresponding systems and devices are also disclosed.

Method for fast detection and automatic gain adjustment in ADC based signal

A microcontroller comprises a plurality of digital peripheral blocks and a direct memory access (DMA) controller coupled thereto. The plurality of digital peripheral blocks includes a digital peripheral block that is configured to issue a DMA request. Upon receipt of the DMA request, the DMA controller is configured to retrieve configuration information and to write the configuration information to a configuration register associated with a circuit element of the microcontroller.

Combined analog architecture and functionality in a mixed-signal array

A method can include, amplifying an analog input signal to generate an amplified analog signal; modulating the amplified analog signal into a digital data stream; filtering the digital data stream with a first digital filter to generate a first filtered data stream, and selectively changing a gain of the amplifier in response to the first filtered data stream. While the digital data stream is filtered with the first digital filter, the digital data stream is filtered with a second digital filter to generate a second filtered data stream. An output digital value corresponding to the analog input signal in response to the second filtered data stream. Corresponding systems and devices are also disclosed.

A programmable device, having an analog component coupled with an analog bus and a digital component coupled with a digital bus together with a set of 10 pads, each of which capable of being coupled to a bus line of one segment of the analog bus as well as to at least one digital bus line, and where the analog bus is capable of being used to connect a pair of the pads to each other.

Bus sharing scheme

A programmable device comprises a plurality of programmable blocks, a debug interface coupled with the plurality of programmable blocks, a debug interface coupled with the plurality of programmable blocks, and a power manger coupled with the plurality of programmable blocks. The power manager is configured to supply power to a subset of the plurality of programmable blocks during debugging of the subset while maintaining a different subset of the plurality of programmable blocks in a lower power mode.

An integrated circuit device can include at least one input; at least one output configured to provide a multi-bit output value; at least one input; at least one output configured to provide a multi-bit output value; a plurality of configurable digital filter circuits; and switch circuits coupled to the at least one input and to the at least one output, the switch circuits configurable to connect same digital filter circuits as a single processing path or separate processing paths.

Integrated circuit device with reconfigurable digital filter circuits

A first analog block includes a first plurality of switched capacitors and a second analog block includes a second plurality of switched capacitors. A switch associated with the first plurality of switched capacitors as well as a switch associated with the second plurality of switched capacitors may be configured based on one or more analog functions. The configuring of the first analog and the second analog block may include the configuring of the switch associated with the first plurality of switched capacitors when the analog function is associated with a first single ended signal and the configuring of both the switch associated with the first plurality of switched capacitors and the switch associated with the second plurality of switched capacitors when the analog function is associated with a differential signal.

Programmable switched capacitor block

Methods and apparatus include and amplifier circuit and a first capacitor branch including a first plurality of capacitors. The first capacitor branch couples to an input signal and to an input of the amplifier circuit. A second capacitor branch includes a second plurality of capacitors. The second capacitor branch couples to the input of the amplifier circuit and to an output of the amplifier circuit.

Configurable capacitor arrays and switched capacitor circuits

An integrated circuit (IC) device can include a plurality of analog blocks, including at least one fixed function analog circuit, a plurality of reconfigurable analog circuit blocks, at least one analog routing block reconfigurable to provide signal paths between any of the analog blocks; and a digital section comprising digital circuits; wherein each analog block includes dedicated of signal lines coupled to the at least one analog routing block.

Integrated circuit device with programmable analog subsystem

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Harold Kutz