Stmicroelectronics S.a.

St-ericsson Sa

Stmicroelectronics France

Pierre Busson

Bruno Paille

Pierre-Olivier Jouffre

Pierre-Oliver Jouffre

Bernard Louis-Gavet

Jean-Francois Carpentier

Pierre Dautriche

Frederic Paillardet

Patrice Garcia

Sébastien Pruvost

Daniel Saias

Frédéric Paillardet

Sebastien Pruvost

Franck Montaudon

Isabelle Telliez

In an embodiment, a method includes receiving in parallel first data and second data; and delivering in series the first and second data, where the first data comprises electric power delivery configuration data. In some embodiments, delivering in series the first and second data includes delivering the first and second data wirelessly.

Data communication circuit

A millimeter wave transceiver including a plate forming an interposer having its upper surface supporting an interconnection network and having its lower surface intended to be assembled on a printed circuit board by bumps; an integrated circuit chip assembled on the upper surface of the interposer; antennas made of tracks formed on the upper surface of the interposer; and reflectors on the upper surface of the printed circuit board in front of each of the antennas, the effective distance between each antenna and the reflector plate being on the order of one quarter of the wavelength, taking into account the dielectric constants of the interposed materials.

Integrated millimeter wave transceiver

A satellite receive unit for receiving a plurality of satellite signals from a plurality of satellites, the satellite receive unit including: a plurality of low noise blocks each for receiving one or more of the satellite signals and providing a received signal, at least one of the low noise blocks receiving a plurality of the satellite signals; and a satellite signal processing unit including a plurality of branches each arranged to receive a corresponding one of the received signals from the plurality of low noise blocks, each branch having a multiplier arranged to weight the received signal by multiplying by a corresponding coefficient; and an adder arranged to add the weighted signals of each branch to generate an output satellite signal.

Receive unit for reception of multiple satellite signals

The component, fully integrated onto a monolithic substrate, includes a tuner, a demodulator, and a channel decoder. The overall filtering is carried out in two parts, a baseband analog filtering and a digital Nyquist filtering removing the information of adjacent channels. It outputs a stream of MPEG data.

Electronic component allowing the decoding of a radiofrequency transmission channel conveying coded digital information, in particular for satellite digital telebroadcasting

A radio frequency transmission module is adapted to generate a first signal to be transmitted and to convert the signal to a radio frequency carrier for its radio transmission, in an operational phase, and is adapted to generate a second signal and to convert the second signal to the radio frequency carrier, in a calibration phase. The module includes a calibration unit having a subsampler adapted to subsample the second converted signal and a calculation unit adapted to calculate Fourier Transform coefficients representative of the signal delivered by the subsampler, for the purposes of processing the first signal to be transmitted, in the operational phase, as a function of at least some of the Fourier coefficients calculated in the calibration phase.

Calibration in a radio frequency transmission module

A dual-conversion tuner firstly upconverts so as to place itself outside the receive band and then downconverts with zero intermediate frequency. A filter of the surface acoustic wave type is disposed between the two frequency transposition stages of the tuner. After baseband filtering, the signals are digitized then processed in a digital block comprising a channel decoding module. With the exception of the surface acoustic wave filter, the components are entirely embodied in integrated fashion.

Electronic component allowing the decoding of digital terrestrial or cable television signals

An integrated circuit includes a dual-conversion tuner, firstly upconverting so as to place a signal outside the reception band, then downconverting with zero intermediate frequency. A bulk acoustic wave type filter is calibrated in such a way as to accurately determine its central frequency. This filter is positioned between the two frequency transposition stages of the tuner. After baseband filtering, the signals are digitized then processed in a digital block BNM which includes a channel decoding module.

An integrated circuit is embodied on a monolithic substrate and incorporates a tuning module of the direct sampling type that is able to receive satellite digital television analog signals composed of several channels, as well as several channel decoding digital modules connected at the output of the tuning module so as to deliver respectively simultaneously several streams of data packets corresponding to several different selected channels.

Electronic component allowing the decoding of satellite digital television signals

An input/output terminal receives a multi-channel analog signal within a predetermined frequency band, and transmits a single-channel analog signal within this frequency band. A tuning module has a reception channel based upon a two-stage down conversion to baseband, and is connected between the input/output terminal and an analog-to-digital conversion stage. A transmission channel based upon a two-stage up conversion is connected between a digital-to-analog conversion stage and the input/output terminal. The two channels include a common filter of the bulk acoustic wave type or of the surface acoustic wave type between the two frequency transposition stages of the two channels. A digital reception unit is connected to the output of the analog-to-digital conversion stage, and a digital transmission unit is connected to the input of the digital-to-analog conversion stage.

Electronic component notably for decoding signals modulated by a digital quadrature modulation over a large number of orthogonal carriers

An integrated superheterodyne dual-conversion tuner upconverts a signal so as to place it outside a reception band, and then downconverts the signal with a non-zero intermediate frequency. A first filter of the bulk acoustic wave type is positioned between the up and down conversion and is calibrated in such a way as to accurately determine its central frequency. A second filter of a microelectromechanical type receives the downconverted signal and is calibrated in such a way as to accurately determine its central frequency.

Electronic component with integrated tuning device, allowing the decoding of digital terrestrial or cable television signals

In a calibration phase for a tuner of the DZIF type, N calibration frequency signals are generated at an input of a filter. The N calibration frequency signals have N calibration frequencies corresponding respectively after transposition to N analysis frequencies at an input of a Fourier transform. An amplitude and a phase of a corresponding point at an output of the Fourier transform are calculated for each analysis frequency. In a reception phase, each of the outputs of the Fourier transform is corrected with an inverse of the corresponding amplitude and opposite the corresponding phase calculated in the calibration phase.

Method and device for processing mismatches between two quadrature paths of a chain of a reception adapted for example to the reception of a signal modulated according to a modulation of the OFDM type

A tuner includes an analog block, a digital block, and an analog/digital conversion stage connected therebetween. The analog block includes a first attenuator/controlled-gain amplifier stage connected upstream to a frequency transposition stage. The overall mean power of the entire signal received by the tuner is calculated during a phase of initialization. This overall calculated power is compared in the digital block with a first predetermined reference value corresponding to a maximum power desired at a predetermined location of the analog block. The gain of the first attenuator/amplifier stage is adjusted to minimize the deviation between the overall calculated power and the reference value. In a phase of normal operation, one of the channels of the signal received is selected, with the gain of the first attenuator/amplifier stage being fixed.

Tuner of the type having zero intermediate frequency and corresponding control process

The electronic component, comprises an integrated circuit incorporating several separate functional blocks within a semiconductor substrate, and electrostatic discharge protection means. These electrostatic discharge protection means comprise several separate metal discharge rails (GNDi) placed above the substrate (SB) and respectively associated with the plurality of functional blocks (CRi), all these metal discharge rails being mutually unconnected electrically within the integrated circuit (CI) but connected electrically via an electrical connection (FLi) external to the integrated circuit to one and the same ground plane (SLG) forming a ground reference for the electrostatic discharges, this ground plane (SLG) being located outside the integrated circuit (CI), and possibly being a heat slug.

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Grenoble, France

Pierre Busson