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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2013
Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute Company Limited, Hong Kong, HK;
Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute Company, Ltd., Hong Kong, unknown;
Abstract
An envelope detector receives an input that is an Amplitude-Modulated (AM) or Amplitude-Shift-Keying (ASK) coded signal. Each channel has a sample switch and a diode that charge an internal sampling capacitor. A hold switch connects the internal sampling capacitor to a summing output capacitor or to a post-processing circuit. A reset switch discharges the internal sampling capacitor after each sample. Two or more channels may be time multiplexed to sample alternate cycles of the input, and then their outputs combined by the summing output capacitor or by the post-processing circuit. The diodes may be reversed to detect the negative envelope rather than the positive envelope. Clocks for the switches may be generated from the input, or may be from a separate clock source. Since the sampling window is open for a whole input cycle, the clock source is insensitive to phase error.