Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

Huanhui Zhan

Krishna Pentakota

Stefan N Mastovich

Tamás Marozsák

András Vince Horváth

Ernest T Stroud

An apparatus for communicating across an isolation barrier includes a differential pair of input terminals. The apparatus includes a bandpass filter circuit configured to receive a received signal on the differential pair of input terminals and to provide a received differential signal on a differential pair of nodes. The apparatus includes a demodulator directly coupled to the bandpass filter circuit and configured to directly demodulate the received differential signal on the differential pair of nodes to provide a demodulated received signal.

Isolation communications channel using direct demodulation and data-edge encoding

A power transfer device includes an oscillator circuit of a DC/AC power converter responsive to an input DC signal and an oscillator enable signal to generate an AC signal. The oscillator circuit includes a first node, a second node, and a circuit coupled between the first node and the second node. The circuit includes a cross-coupled pair of devices. The oscillator circuit further includes a variable capacitor coupled between the first node and the second node. A capacitance of the variable capacitor is based on a digital control signal. A first frequency of a pseudo-differential signal on the first node and the second node is based on the capacitance. The power transfer device further includes a control circuit configured to periodically update the digital control signal. A second frequency of periodic updates to the digital control signal is different from the first frequency.

Electromagnetic radiation control for isolated power transfer product

An integrated circuit includes a supply terminal to receive a supply voltage and a test terminal that operates in an input mode and an output mode. A test interface of the integrated circuit operates in a normal mode requiring a serial write to the test terminal to access test locations in the integrated circuit. The test interface also operates in an automatic mode in which addresses for test locations are auto incremented by toggling the supply voltage from a high voltage level to a low voltage level and back to the high voltage level. In an input mode, with the supply voltage at the low voltage level, the test pin receives configuration and address information. In output mode, with the supply voltage at the high voltage level, the test pin supplies test information corresponding to the address information received.

Single pin test interface for pin limited systems

An isolation system includes a transmit die and a receive die coupled by an isolation channel. The transmit die receives diagnostic data at an input terminal and transmits the diagnostic data over an isolation channel to a receive die. The receive die supplies a signal from an internal node in the receive die identified by the diagnostic data to an output terminal of the receive die. Other diagnostic data received by the transmit die causes the transmit die to supply a signal from an internal node in the transmit die to a terminal of the transmit die.

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Huanhui Zhan