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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2015
Applicant:

Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd., Edinburgh, GB;

Inventors:

Ramin Zanbaghi, Austin, TX (US);

Yousof Mortazavi, Austin, TX (US);

Aaron Brennan, Austin, TX (US);

John L. Melanson, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

CIRRUS LOGIC, INC., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03M 1/14 (2006.01); H03M 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 19/04 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/14 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2013.01); H03M 1/1295 (2013.01); H03M 3/458 (2013.01); H03M 3/494 (2013.01); H04R 19/04 (2013.01); H03M 1/124 (2013.01);
Abstract

One method of processing microphone input in an ADC to determine microphone configuration is to process the microphone input signals in two processing paths, in which one processing path processes a difference between differential input signals and another processing path processes an average value of the differential input signals. The outputs of these processing paths may be combined to generate a digital signal representative of the analog signal from the microphone. The digital signal contains a digital version of the audio in the environment around the microphone, but may also be used to detect microphone topology and configure aspects of the processing paths to match the detected microphone topology. An apparatus for an ADC may implement the two processing paths as two delta-sigma modulator loops.


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