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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:
Oct. 24, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2015
Applicant:

Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;

Inventors:

Gabriele Gandolfi, Siziano, IT;

Vittorio Colonna, San Martino Siccomario, IT;

Francesco Rezzi, Cava Manara, IT;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 99/00 (2009.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01); H03F 3/183 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/45076 (2013.01); H03F 3/183 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2013.01); H03F 2200/03 (2013.01); H03F 2200/165 (2013.01); H03F 2200/171 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45116 (2013.01);
Abstract

Technologies are described to DC-couple an integrated amplifier system to a source that provides a signal with an unknown DC component, for example to DC-couple an integrated audio codec to an analog microphone. In one aspect, methods include receiving, by an amplifier, a signal having an unknown DC component, and issuing an amplified signal; low pass filtering, with respect to a cutoff frequency, by a feedback circuit coupled between an output of the amplifier and an input of the amplifier, the amplified signal issued at the output of the amplifier to generate a filtered signal having frequencies lower than the cutoff frequency; and injecting, by the feedback circuit, the filtered signal into the input of the amplifier to cancel the unknown DC component below the cutoff frequency.


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