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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2015
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Timothy J. Talty, Beverly Hills, MI (US);
Cynthia D. Baringer, Malibu, CA (US);
Mohiuddin Ahmed, Moorpark, CA (US);
Albert E. Cosand, Agoura Hills, CA (US);
James Chingwei Li, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Peter Petre, Oak Park, CA (US);
Zhiwei A. Xu, Davis, CA (US);
Yen-Cheng Kuan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for reducing power consumption in a transceiver front-end circuit for a cellular radio. The transceiver circuit includes a receiver module having a delta-sigma modulator that converts analog receive signals to a representative digital signal in an interleaving process, where the delta-sigma modulator includes a low noise amplifier (LNA), an LC filter and a quantizer circuit. The LC filter is a multi-order filter and the quantizer circuit is an interleaving quantizer circuit that interleaves multiple groups of bits from the filter. The method includes selectively reducing the order of the LC filter in situations where a full dynamic range of the cellular radio is not required and reducing a bit resolution of the quantizer circuit so as to reduce the power requirements of the cellular radio.