Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Corehw Semiconductor Oy

Tapio Kuiri

Kaj Tapio Jansen

Jussi Olavi Numminen

Harri Lilja

Petri Heliö

Sami Haapoja

Petri Kotilainen

Tomi-Pekka Takalo

Markus Hakamo

Alice Frances Wilson

Ville Salmi

Simon Nicholas Walker

Jorma Savolainen

A capacitor structure implemented as a layered structure including a plurality of alternating dielectric and metallization layers, and a method of manufacturing such capacitor structure. The capacitor structure including at least one lateral parallel plate capacitor part (LPP part) including two first electrodes on two different layers separated by dielectric material of a plurality of the alternating layers, and at least one vertical parallel plate capacitor part (VPP part) including two second electrodes each including a plurality of superimposed slabs or bars arranged on a plurality of the metallization layers. The at least one LPP part is electrically coupled with the at least one VPP part to form the capacitor structure. A variation in capacitance value of the at least one LPP part due to a variation of thickness of dielectric material is at least partially compensated by an opposite variation in capacitance value of the at least one VPP part.

Capacitor structure

A circuit includes a differential amplifier having a first input for coupling to a first terminal of a microphone and a second input for coupling to a first terminal of a component having an impedance value that is substantially equal to an impedance value of the microphone, where a second terminal of the microphone and a second terminal of the component are coupled to circuit ground. The circuit further includes a first resistance having a first node coupled to a source of microphone bias voltage and a second node coupled to the first terminal of the microphone; and a second resistance having a first node coupled to the source of microphone bias voltage and a second node coupled to the first terminal of the component. Operation of the differential amplifier results in attenuating or suppressing common mode noise and interference present in the microphone bias voltage and in the common potential.

Apparatus and method to provide advanced microphone bias

A method of controlling a phase locked loop in a mobile station and a mobile station of a cellular telecommunications system are provided. The mobile station comprises an integrated phase locked loop for generating output frequencies; a frequency control unit for providing a frequency control word for the phase locked loop, according to which frequency control word an output frequency is generated; and a tuning unit for providing a synchronized tuning word for the phase locked loop, the tuning unit being configured to output the synchronized tuning word to the phase locked loop in synchronization with the output of the frequency control word. The invention reduces the settling time of a mobile station when an operating frequency is changed from one to another.

Controlling phase locked loop in a mobile station

A method of tuning a station is disclosed, wherein a first pilot signal is applied on a circuit of the station and the resulting output power of the signal circuit is subsequently detected. A second pilot signal is then applied to the circuit and the resulting output power of the circuit is detected. The offset of the circuit is then tuned based on information of the resulting output power detected for the first and second signals. A station that is adapted to implement the method may be tuned by the manufacturer thereof or later after having already been taken into use. The tuning may occur automatically as response to a predefined event.

Tuning a station

Method of controlling phase locked loop in mobile station, and mobile station

A wireless communications mobile station () includes at least one antenna () and a RF transceiver () containing a direct conversion receiver () coupled to the antenna. The direct conversion receiver contains a low noise amplifier () for amplifying a received RF signal and for outputting the amplified RF signal to a current switching down-conversion mixer (). The down-conversion mixer has a first input node for receiving the amplified RF signal, a second input node for receiving a local oscillator (LO) signal for mixing with the amplified RF signal and an output node coupled to an input of an operational amplifier forming a low pass filter (A). In accordance with an aspect of this invention the low pass filter has a low pass pole generated by a resistor R and a capacitor C coupled in parallel in a feedback path of the operational amplifier, where a low pass comer frequency of the low pass filter is inversely proportional to the product of R and C. In a preferred embodiment at least the down-conversion mixer and the low pass filter are implemented as part of an integrated circuit, and the resistor and the capacitor are fabricated within the integrated circuit.

Direct conversion receiver having a low pass pole implemented with an active low pass filter

A method and device for avoiding adjacent channel interference and reducing disconnections caused thereby, during communication between a mobile device and a base station in a wireless telecommunications network. The mobile device measures the strength of a received signal before the signal enters one or more selected filters, and compares the strength of the signal after the filtering, in order to estimate a power ratio of the adjacent channel interference to communication channel power. If the power ratio is greater than a threshold, then a handover is requested to an alternative communication channel available between the mobile device and either the base station or another base station.

Measurement method and device for activating interfrequency handover in a wireless telecommunication network

A low noise amplifier ( ) is provided for amplifying signals in a frequency band. The low noise amplifier ( ) comprises several amplifying elements ( ) that share a load impedance ( ) and a degeneration impedance ( ). One of the amplifying elements ( ) is activated at a time that the rest are deactivated. The activation and deactivation is done by feeding a bias to a bias port ( ) or grounding the same, respectively. A signal to be amplified is fed to the corresponding input ( ) depending on which of the amplifying elements ( ) is activated. An amplified signal is obtained at an output ( ).

Amplifier with multiple inputs

A method of using an integrated circuit with at least one defect, said method comprising the steps of determining the location of one or more defects in said integrated circuit; selecting a program to be stored on said integrated circuit, said program being selected on the basis of the location of said one or more defects; and loading said program onto said integrated circuit.

Defect avoidance in an integrated circuit

A signal path, such as receiver signal path of a mobile station, includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) for representing an input signal as n-bits, the n-bit representation including a DC offset component. The signal path also includes a summing node having a first input for inputting the n-bit output of the ADC and a second input for inputting a k-bit representation of a DC offset component compensation value, where k&equals;n&plus;m, where m is a number of bits that represent a value smaller than one least significant bit (LSB) of said n-bit representation. The summing node operates to subtract the value appearing at the second input from the value appearing at the first input, and outputs a k-bit DC offset compensated value.

Method and apparatus for digitally removing a DC-offset smaller than one LSB

In order to limit the heat dissipation within a regulator for controlling the supply to the microprocessor control unit of a communications device, a dropping component is connected in series with the regulator during periods of high battery voltage and is shunted during periods of low battery voltage in the battery charge cycle.

Heat transfer from active high drop regulator

A wireless communicator, such as a cellular telephone or personal communicator, includes a power source (e.g., two series connected batteries) providing output voltages VSS, VDD, and V1, where V1=(VDD-VSS)/2. The power source is coupled to a first load for powering the first load with VSS and VDD. The wireless communicator further includes a power source switching unit having first inputs coupled to VSS, VDD and V1, a second input coupled to a MODE signal, and outputs coupled to a second load. The power source switching unit is responsive to a first state of the MODE signal for powering the second load with VSS and V1, and is responsive to a second state of the MODE signal for powering the second load with V1 and VDD. By periodically toggling the MODE signal, such as at a frame rate of the wireless communicator, the power drawn from each battery by the second load is equalized, while providing the second load with a desired lower operating voltage. Also shown is interface circuitry for level shifting signals output from the first load to the second load, and signals output from the second load to the first load. The interface circuitry is also responsive to the state of the MODE signal for accommodating the changes in levels of the second load input/output signals between VSS-V1, and V1-VDD.

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Tapio Kuiri