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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Miao Li, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiaohua Kong, San Diego, CA (US);
Yan Hu, San Diego, CA (US);
Zhi Zhu, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for de-modulating a high-supply-domain differential signal and a common-mode clock in a front-end receiver are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for receiving a signal comprises receiving the signal via a receiver input, the received signal comprising a differential signal and a common-mode clock signal. The method also comprises shifting the received signal from a first voltage range to a second voltage range that is lower than the first voltage range, and providing the shifted received signal on a first level-shifted signal line and a second level-shifted signal line. The method further comprises sensing voltage differences between the first and second level-shifted lines to recover the differential signal, and sensing common-mode voltages on the first and second level-shifted signal lines to recover the common-mode clock signal.