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Gerard G. Socci

Bio: Gerard G. Socci is an academic researcher from National Semiconductor. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phase-locked loop & Phase detector. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 21 publications receiving 499 citations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a phase-locked loop (PLL) reference-spur reduction design technique exploiting a sub-sampling phase detector (SSPD) is presented.
Abstract: This paper presents phase-locked loop (PLL) reference-spur reduction design techniques exploiting a sub-sampling phase detector (SSPD) (which is also referred to as a sampling phase detector). The VCO is sampled by the reference clock without using a frequency divider and an amplitude controlled charge pump is used which is inherently insensitive to mismatch. The main remaining source of the VCO reference spur is the periodic disturbance of the VCO by the sampling at the reference frequency. The underlying VCO sampling spur mechanisms are analyzed and their effect is minimized by using dummy samplers and isolation buffers. A duty-cycle-controlled reference buffer and delay-locked loop (DLL) tuning are proposed to further reduce the worst case spur level. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed spur reduction techniques, a 2.21 GHz PLL is designed and fabricated in 0.18 μm CMOS technology. While using a high loop-bandwidth-to-reference-frequency ratio of 1/20, the reference spur measured from 20 chips is <; -80 dBc. The PLL consumes 3.8 mW while the in-band phase noise is -121 dBc/Hz at 200 kHz and the output jitter integrated from 10 kHz to 100 MHz is 0.3psrms.

113 citations

Patent
20 Dec 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the receiver load current duty cycle is controlled to maintain receiver voltage even in the presence of multiple receivers, and receiver self-management is used to identify when other receivers are charging and wait to begin receiving a transfer of power until another receiver has stopped receiving a transmission.
Abstract: In a wireless power transfer system with multiple receivers, receiver management may be necessary to effectively provide power to the multiple receivers. In one implementation, receiver management includes sweeping or stepping the transmitter resonant and/or operating frequency. In another implementation, receiver management includes receiver self-management, in which the receiver load current duty cycle is controlled to maintain receiver voltage even in the presence of multiple receivers. In another implementation, receiver management includes receiver self-management, in which one or more receivers use a time-sharing heuristic to identify when other receivers are charging and wait to begin receiving a transfer of power until another receiver has stopped receiving a transfer of power.

69 citations

Patent
24 May 1996
TL;DR: In this paper, a technique for seamless handover between base stations in a TDMA controller as a telephone handset is transported from one base station's area to another is disclosed, where transmissions are made in the original slot time and a handover slot time within the same frame.
Abstract: A technique is disclosed for allowing a seamless handover between base stations in a TDMA controller as a telephone handset is transported from one base station's area to another. The disclosed circuitry enables the TDMA controller to assess the quality of the handover before switching to the new base station. When it is determined that a handover operation is to commence, transmissions are made in the original slot time and a handover slot time within the same frame. Also during the same frame, data is received at two separate slot times. Only when it is determined that the data received in the handover slot time contains no transmission errors is the handover completed by then only transmitting on the handover slot transmit time and receiving on the handover slot receive time. In the preferred embodiment, it is determined whether the received data contains no transmission errors by detecting the CRC codes, the signal strength, and the existence of any invalid words.

60 citations

Patent
24 May 1996
TL;DR: In this paper, a synchronization method for synchronizing a plurality of base stations in a TDMA communication system is disclosed, and the synchronization topology may be via dedicated hardwire, via any DSL from the PSTN, or via an ad-hoc RF synchronization technique.
Abstract: A synchronization method for synchronizing a plurality of base stations in a TDMA communication system is disclosed. The synchronization topology may be via dedicated hardwire, via any DSL from the PSTN, or via an ad-hoc RF synchronization technique. Slots containing data are arranged in frames and these frames are transmitted to the base stations, and received from the base stations, by wireless telephone handsets. Each of the slots in a frame have a guard field comprising a plurality of guard bits. The base stations derive frame sync pulses via the received Unique Word correlation detect. These derived frame sync pulses are ultimately synchronized with frame sync signals received from the master base station. The slave base stations are maintained in synchronization with the master base station by using a phase locked loop (DPLL) which adds or deletes a final bit in the guard field of a frame to either advance or delay the frame sync pulse generated within the slave base station as necessary to maintain synchronization between the frame sync pulses generated by the slave base station and the frame sync pulses generated by the master base station.

52 citations

Patent
16 Jun 1999
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method for reducing the noise pass band of a wireless communication system using data rotation in the complex domain during at least one operating mode (e.g., a synchronization mode).
Abstract: A wireless communication system (e.g., GSM) receiver including analog (e.g., analog channel select) and digital filters, and bandwidth control circuitry which operates during at least one mode (e.g., a synchronization mode) to effectively narrow the combined pass band of the analog and digital filters thus reducing the bandwidth of noise passing therethrough, and a method for reducing noise pass band (preferably by data rotation) in at least one mode (e.g., a synchronization mode) but not all modes of wireless communication system receiver. Preferably,the bandwidth control circuitry passes through the output of an analog-to-digital converter (indicative of data) to the digital filter during at least one operating mode, and the bandwidth control circuitry rotates the data in the complex domain (during at least one other mode) before the data is digitally filtered. Rotation of the data is equivalent to rotation of the digital filter pass band, so that (during synchronization) the combined pass band of the analog and digital filters is effectively narrowed but is still sufficiently wide to include the frequency of a frequency correction burst. By performing data rotation in the complex domain, noise bandwidth reduction can be accomplished with simple logic circuitry configured to perform simple logic operations.

37 citations


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Patent
09 May 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method for providing power to devices via an A.C. power source, and for facilitating the use of LED-based light sources on a power circuit that provides signals other than standard line voltages.
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing power to devices via an A.C. power source, and for facilitating the use of LED-based light sources on A.C. power circuits that provide signals other than standard line voltages. In one example, LED-based light sources may be coupled to A.C. power circuits that are controlled by conventional dimmers (i.e, “A.C. dimmer circuits”). Hence, LED-based light sources may be conveniently substituted for other light sources (e.g., incandescent lights) in lighting environments employing conventional A.C. dimming devices and/or other control signals present on the A.C. power circuit. In yet other aspects, one or more parameters relating to the light generated by LED-based light sources (e.g., intensity, color, color temperature, temporal characteristics, etc.) may be conveniently controlled via operation of a conventional A.C. dimmer and/or other signals present on the A.C. power circuit.

622 citations

Patent
20 Mar 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a protocol for seamless and reliable handoff of sessions between base stations while the mobile device is moving between picocells, by implementing a high-level of synchronization between the Base Stations and the Switch.
Abstract: Methods to create a cellular-like communication system, such as a Wireless Private Branch Exchange (WPBX) (123, 124), which includes mobile devices (121, 123) such as a standard cordless phone (handsets), particularly, mobile devices utilizing the Bluetooth short-range wireless communication protocol. The methods provide seamless and reliable handoff of sessions between Base Stations while the mobile device is moving between picocells, by implementing a high-level of synchronization between the Base Stations and the Switch (129). Base Stations of picocells having small coverage areas communicate with the handsets. The communication protocol is divided into a low-level protocol (280, 281) performed by the Base Stations and a high-level protocol (283, 284) performed by the Switch connected to all the Base Stations. The methods support mobile computing or telephony devices and communication protocols, which are not specified to handle handoffs of sessions while moving between Base Stations coverage areas in a data, voice or telephony wireless network.

357 citations

Patent
29 Mar 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, a wireless power transmitting apparatus is provided with a power transmitting circuit configured to generate high frequency power at a variable frequency, and supply the high-frequency power to the power transmitting antenna.
Abstract: A power transmitting antenna includes a first resonant circuit including a power transmitting coil. A power receiving antenna includes a second resonant circuit including a power receiving coil. When the power transmitting antenna and the power receiving antenna are electromagnetically coupled to each other, the power transmitting antenna and the power receiving antenna have an odd-mode resonance frequency corresponding to an odd-mode resonant condition, and an even-mode resonance frequency corresponding to an even-mode resonant condition, and the even-mode resonance frequency is higher than the odd-mode resonance frequency. A wireless power transmitting apparatus is provided with a power transmitting circuit configured to generate high-frequency power at a variable frequency, and supply the high-frequency power to the power transmitting antenna. A control circuit sets the frequency of the high-frequency power generated by the power transmitting circuit to one of the odd-mode resonance frequency and the even-mode resonance frequency.

346 citations

Patent
11 Mar 2002
TL;DR: In this article, a new category of integrated circuitry and a new methodology for adaptive or reconfigurable computing is proposed, which includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network.
Abstract: The present invention concerns a new category of integrated circuitry and a new methodology for adaptive or reconfigurable computing. The preferred IC embodiment includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication, complex multiplication, subtraction, configuration, reconfiguration, control, input, output, and field programmability. In response to configuration information, the interconnection network is operative in real-time to configure and reconfigure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a plurality of different functional modes, including linear algorithmic operations, non-linear algorithmic operations, finite state machine operations, memory operations, and bit-level manipulations. The various fixed architectures are selected to comparatively minimize power consumption and increase performance of the adaptive computing integrated circuit, particularly suitable for mobile, hand-held or other battery-powered computing applications.

256 citations