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US 2018/0019759 A1Published application
Reconfigurable transceivers
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsHaim Mendel WEISSMAN, Mahim RANJAN
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Abstract
A transceiver including: a reconfigurable circuit including a plurality of units including at least a converter, the converter including: a digital-to-analog converter (DAC); successive approximation register (SAR) logic configured to selectively couple to the DAC; and a plurality of switches configured to reconfigure the plurality of units of the reconfigurable circuit to operate the transceiver in a receive mode or transmit mode.
Claims29
A transceiver comprising:
- a reconfigurable circuit including a plurality of units comprising at least a converter, the converter comprising:
- a digital-to-analog converter (DAC);
- successive approximation register (SAR) logic configured to selectively couple to the DAC;
- and
- a plurality of switches configured to reconfigure the plurality of units of the reconfigurable circuit to operate the transceiver in a receive mode or transmit mode.
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A method for reconfiguring a reconfigurable transceiver, the method comprising:
- configuring the reconfigurable transceiver with a plurality of units comprising at least a converter, the converter comprising a successive approximation register (SAR) and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), in a receive mode by at least coupling a SAR counter to the DAC;
- and
- configuring the plurality of units to operate the reconfigurable transceiver in a transmit mode by at least decoupling the SAR counter from the DAC.
A transceiver comprising:
- means for converting a signal;
- means for configuring the means for converting as means for analog-to-digital conversion of the signal during operation in a receive mode;
- and
- means for configuring the means for converting a signal as means for a digital-to-analog conversion of the signal during operation in a transmit mode.
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A transceiver comprising:
- a reconfigurable converter, the reconfigurable converter configured to:
- operate as a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in a receive mode;
- and
- operate as a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in a transmit mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.