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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Werner Blatz, Leingarten, DE;
Michael Sagebiel, Leingarten, DE;
Thomas Janz, Ulm, DE;
Martin Fischer, Heilbronn, DE;
Daniel Moser, Korntal-Muenchingen, DE;
Jan Knopf, Heilbronn, DE;
Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations, an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit comprises: a pre-divider circuit operable to pre-divide an input signal according to a pre-divider circuit setting and output a pre-divided signal; a pre-amplifier operable to pre-amplify the pre-divided signal and output a pre-amplified signal; a post-divider circuit operable to post-divide the pre-amplified signal according to a post-divider circuit setting; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operable to generate a digital data stream from the post-divided signal; logic operable to sample the digital data stream; determine a pre-divider circuit setting and a post-divider circuit setting based on the sampled data stream; set the pre-divider circuit and the post-divider circuit based on the determined settings; and generate a received signal strength value based on the pre-divider circuit setting and the post-divider circuit setting.