Intel Corporation

Intel IP Corporation

Sathish K Kuttan

Sebastien Fievet

Jie Zhu

Niranjan Karandikar

Jean-Yves Michel

A demodulator including a peak sampler to control an ADC or a digital resampler to sample a carrier signal in an unmodulated state at peaks, and to sample the carrier signal in a modulated state at a phase of the unmodulated state; and an envelope builder to determine an envelope signal based on differentials between maximum and minimum peaks of respective cycles of the sampled carrier signal. Further, a demodulator having an offset estimator to estimate in-phase and quadrature components of a carrier signal in an unmodulated state to determine in-phase and quadrature component offsets; a load modulated signal estimator to estimate in-phase and quadrature components of a load modulated signal by removing the in-phase and quadrature component offsets from in-phase and quadrature component samples of the carrier signal; and an envelope builder to build an envelope signal by combining the in-phase and quadrature components of the load modulated signal.

Demodulator of a wireless communication reader

A communication device includes a pulse width modulator that is provided with an oscillator signal at a communication carrier frequency. The pulse width modulator input is an amplified reference voltage that is regulated by a feedback loop. A modulation control provides the data signal to be transmitted. The modulation control may either be provided to the amplifier mixed with the reference voltage or may be provided to the pulse width modulator. A power transistor receives the pulse width modulator output and generates a chip output signal. An external filter is connected at the chip output to filter the signal that is provided to the communication antenna and produce a carrier sinusoid with an amplitude proportional to the pulse width modulated by voltage regulation and by the modulating data input. The power source is connected to the external filter. A differential version includes differential outputs from the pulse width modulator to two power transistors and through two external filters to a differential antenna.

Method and apparatus for radio modulator and antenna driver

Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for implementing low-power detection of a near field communication (NFC) card or tags. In particular, an NFC antenna is integrated with at least one transistor to form an oscillator. A substantial decrease in oscillator's oscillation indicates presence or detection of the NFC card or tag.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Sathish K Kuttan