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Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2013
Applicants:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Texas Instruments Deutschland Gmbh, Freising, DE;

Inventors:

Sudipto Chakraborty, Richardson, TX (US);

Jens Graul, Freising, DE;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/46 (2015.01); G01R 31/317 (2006.01); H04B 17/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/31716 (2013.01); H04B 17/0005 (2013.01); H04B 17/0007 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system on a chip (SoC) includes a transceiver comprising a transmitter having a power amplifier and a receiver having a signal buffer. At least one of the transmitter and receiver has a configurable portion that can be configured to produce a range of waveforms (both in waveshape as well as duty cycle). A low cost built in self test (BIST) logic is coupled to the transceiver. The BIST logic is operable to calibrate the configurable portion of the transceiver to produce a waveform that has a selected harmonic component that has an amplitude that is less than a threshold value. Current consumed by the transceiver may be dynamically reduced by selecting an optimized waveform that has low harmonic components.


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