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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2016
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Badri Varadarajan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Edward Mullins, Sahuarita, AZ (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
A transmitter path of a power line communication (PLC) device is described. In an embodiment, the transmitter path may include an amplifier, a capacitor coupled to the amplifier, a shared transformer coupled to the capacitor, and a plurality of line interface coupling circuits coupled to the shared transformer, where each of the line interface coupling circuits is configured to be connected to a different phase of an electrical power circuit.