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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2017
Applicant:

Iq-analog Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Kappes, San Diego, CA (US);

Steven R. Norsworthy, Cardiff, CA (US);

Costantino Pala, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

IQ-Analog Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/00 (2006.01); H03M 1/66 (2006.01); H04B 1/44 (2006.01); H03L 7/08 (2006.01); G11C 27/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/662 (2013.01); H04B 1/44 (2013.01); G11C 27/02 (2013.01); H03L 7/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multi-zone digital-to-analog device is provided with a digital-to-analog (D/A) stage having an input to accept a digital input signal with a data bandwidth of M Hertz (Hz), a clock input to accept a clock signal with a clock frequency of P Hz, and an output to supply an analog value having a bandwidth of M Hz. An upsampling stage has an input to accept the analog value and a clock input to accept the clock signal. The upsampling stage has a device bandwidth of L Hz to supply an analog output signal with a full power bandwidth of K Hz, where (P/2)=M and M<K<L. The upsampling stage supplies analog output signal images in a plurality of Nyquist zones. In one aspect, the D/A stage supplies N deinterleaved analog values having a combined bandwidth of M Hz, where N×(P/2)=M.


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