A signal conversion circuit, a heart rate sensor, and an electronic device are provided, and the signal conversion circuit includes: a photoelectric conversion circuit, configured to convert an optical signal into a current signal; a differential signal conversion circuit, connected to the photoelectric conversion circuit, and configured to convert the current signal into a first differential signal and a second differential signal, where the first differential signal is an integration signal of the current signal in a first phase, and the second differential signal is an integration signal of the current signal in a second phase; and a subtraction amplifier, connected to the differential signal conversion circuit, and configured to amplify a difference value between the first differential signal and the second differential signal, to generate a third differential signal. The signal conversion circuit of embodiments of the present disclosure can effectively suppress ambient interference.

A slewing mitigation technique is presented where just the right amount of charge is provided at the switching instant to a switch capacitor circuit so that operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) does not need to provide high peak current. This eliminates slewing altogether and allows using OTAs with less static current for the same settling accuracy.

An amplifier includes: a signal polarity inversion circuit which modulates an input signal and outputs a modulation signal; an amplifier circuit which is constituted from an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) to amplify the modulation signal and output a current; and a sample-hold circuit having a sampling capacitor which is charged and discharged by selective sampling of the output current of the amplifier circuit and a holding capacitor to which the voltage of the sampling capacitor is transferred.

An adding circuit for multi-channel signals and an implementation method thereof are disclosed. The adding circuit for multi-channel signals includes an operational amplifier, a plurality of charge and discharge circuits, a charge transfer circuit, a switch sequence and a control circuit. In this disclosure, the duty cycle of each charge and discharge circuit and the charge transfer circuit can be programmed and preset according to the actual needs, which is not only suitable for the static voltage adding circuit, but also suitable for the dynamic voltage adding circuit. When there are multi-channel signals, the output interference caused by individual signals can be prevented. The area of the adding circuit can be greatly reduced. The adding circuit can be IP-based, controlled by programing and presetting a variety of combined adding algorithms, so the chip cost can be saved and a wide applicability in detection and monitoring can be provided.

The present disclosure discloses a sample and hold amplifier circuit that includes a positive and a negative terminal capacitor arrays, a positive and a negative terminal switch arrays and a differential output circuit. A second terminal of each of bit capacitors in the positive and the negative terminal capacitor arrays are respectively coupled to a positive and a negative output terminal. In a sampling time period, according to a first connection relation, each of the connected bit capacitors is controlled to receive a polarity input voltage to perform a gain modification. In a holding time period, according to a second connection relation, each of the connected bit capacitors is controlled to receive an offset modification voltage to perform an offset modification. A positive and a negative output voltages are generated at the positive and the negative output terminal to be outputted as a pair of differential output signals by the differential output circuit.

A switched capacitor modulator (SCM) includes a RF power amplifier. The RF power amplifier receives a rectified voltage and a RF drive signal and modulates an input signal in accordance with the rectified voltage to generate a RF output signal to an output terminal. A reactance in parallel with the output terminal is configured to vary in response to a control signal to vary an equivalent reactance in parallel with the output terminal. A controller generates the control signal and a commanded phase. The commanded phase controls the RF drive signal. The reactance is at least one of a capacitance or an inductance, and the capacitance or the inductance varies in accordance with the control signal.

An amplifier comprises: an input stage, a pulse width modulation stage, and a switched output stage. During operation, the input stage receives an input signal (such as an audio signal). The input stage adjusts the input signal based on feedback from the switched output stage of the amplifier. According to one configuration, the feedback from the switched output stage is a voltage across a flying capacitor disposed in the switched output stage. The pulse width modulation stage uses the adjusted input signal or signals to produce respective pulse width modulation signals that are subsequently used to drive (control) switches in the switched output stage. The switches in the switched output stage generate an output voltage to drive a load based on states of the pulse width modulation signals. Adjustments applied to the input signal based on the feedback maintains the magnitude of the flying capacitor voltage at a desired setpoint.

Numerous embodiments of analog neural memory arrays are disclosed. In one embodiment, an analog neural memory system comprises an array of non-volatile memory cells, wherein the cells are arranged in rows and columns, the columns arranged in physically adjacent pairs of columns, wherein within each adjacent pair one column in the adjacent pair comprises cells storing W+ values and one column in the adjacent pair comprises cells storing W− values, wherein adjacent cells in the adjacent pair store a differential weight, W, according to the formula W=(W+)−(W−). In another embodiment, an analog neural memory system comprises a first array of non-volatile memory cells storing W+ values and a second array storing W− values.

Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to a device and a method for supplying power to a plurality of power amplifiers in an electronic device. An electronic device may include: a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a third power amplifier, a first power supply module including a power supply configured to supply power to the first power amplifier or the second power amplifier, a second power supply module including a power supply configured to supply power to the second power amplifier or the third power amplifier, and a detection module comprising circuitry configured to identify a state of a connection between the second power amplifier and the first power supply module and a state of a connection between the second power amplifier and the second power supply module, wherein the detection module may be configured to output a power control signal based on detecting that the second power amplifier is connected to the first power supply module and the second power supply module, wherein power supply to the second power amplifier from the first power supply module or the second power supply module may be shut off based on the power control signal of the detection module.

Techniques for determining a state of health of an energy storage device that utilize a capacitor gain amplifier to provide an AC gain and block the DC voltage. An input capacitor can couple between an input excitation signal generator circuit and the amplifier's inverting input terminal, and a feedback capacitor can couple between the amplifier's inverting input terminal and the amplifier's output. A switch can be used to reset the feedback capacitor periodically to prevent the amplifier's output from becoming saturated from a leakage current at the inverting input terminal of the amplifier.