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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:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 21, 2018
Applicant:

Ihp Gmbh—innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/leibniz-institut Fur Innovative Mikroelektronik, Frankfurt (Oder), DE;

Inventors:

Ahmed Awny, Langenhagen, DE;

Alexey Balashov, Frankfurt, DE;

Dietmar Kissinger, Buckenhof, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 3/20 (2006.01); H03G 3/30 (2006.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01); H03G 3/02 (2006.01); H03G 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 3/30 (2013.01); H03F 3/45475 (2013.01); H03G 3/02 (2013.01); H03G 3/04 (2013.01); H03F 2200/435 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45146 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45276 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45521 (2013.01); H03G 3/3052 (2013.01); H03G 2201/103 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to an amplification circuit (), comprising: a VGA (), an AGC loop () for automatically controlling the gain of the VGA (), a switching circuit () for switching between an AGC mode, in which the gain of the VGA () is automatically controlled by an output signal of the AGC loop () and a manual gain control, MGC, mode, in which the gain of the VGA () can be manually controlled by an input signal, and a read/write circuit () with a contact () for connection to a peripheral system, wherein the read/write circuit () is configured, in the MGC mode, to provide the input signal from the contact () via a write-mode path () to the VGA (), and, in the AGC mode, to provide the output signal of the AGC loop () via a read-mode path () on the contact ().


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