A transceiver circuit includes an ADC and an echo-cancellation circuit, wherein the echo-cancellation circuit includes a steady circuit, a transient circuit and an output circuit. In the operations of the transceiver circuit, the ADC is configured to perform an analog-to-digital conversion operation on an analog input signal to generate a digital input signal. The steady circuit is configured to generate a steady echo response according to a transmitting signal. The transient circuit is configured to generate an echo response adjustment signal according to a phase change of a clock signal used by the transmitting signal. The output circuit is configured to generate an output signal according to the digital input signal, the steady echo response, and the echo response adjustment signal.

A phase shifter with a first port and a second port has a triple inductor network with a center inductor connected to the first port and the second port, and first and second peripheral inductors each electromagnetically coupled to the center inductor. A resistance switch network that is connected to the first and second peripheral inductors. The resistance switch network is selectively activatable to set a first state defined at least by a first resistance in a series circuit with the first and second peripheral inductors, a second state defined at least by a second resistance in the series circuit, and a third state defined at least by a third resistance in the series circuit. A transmission signal from the first port to the second port is shifted in phase by a prescribed angle corresponding to forward transmission coefficients for the first state, second state, and third state.

In described examples, a quadrature phase shifter includes digitally programmable phase shifter networks for generating leading and lagging output signals in quadrature. The phase shifter networks include passive components for reactively inducing phase shifts, which need not consume active power. Output currents from the transistors coupled to the phase shifter networks are substantially in quadrature and can be made further accurate by adjusted by a weight function implemented using current steering elements. Example low-loss quadrature phase shifters described herein can be functionally integrated to provide low-power, low-noise up/down mixers, vector modulators and transceiver front-ends for millimeter wavelength (mmwave) communication systems.

The present technology relates to an amplifier and a signal processing circuit that can reduce deterioration of signal quality. A voltage-to-time converter (VTC) integrates error information included in an output pulse width modulation (PWM) signal that is a PWM signal to be output to an outside of a device, so as to convert the error information into error time information. A delay unit generates a plurality of delayed signals using an input PWM signal that is a PWM signal input from the outside of the device. A signal selection unit selects a delayed signal according to the error time information from the plurality of delayed signals and outputs the output PWM signal. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an audio player.

An electronic device includes a feedback oscillator configured to output a first oscillation signal and a second oscillation signal, the second oscillation signal having a defined phase difference from the first oscillation signal, the feedback oscillator including a phase shifter configured to receive the first oscillation signal and output the second oscillation signal, an up-conversion mixer configured to output a first loopback signal obtained by mixing the first oscillation signal with a reference tone signal, and output a second loopback signal obtained by mixing the second oscillation signal with the reference tone signal, and a receiver configured to generate a first reference IQ signal from the first loopback signal, generate a second reference IQ signal from the second loopback signal, and compare an actual phase difference between the first reference IQ signal and the second reference IQ signal with the defined phase difference.

A multiphase signal generator includes an input port. Furthermore, the multiphase signal generator includes a plurality of phase shifters. Each phase shifter of the plurality of phase shifters is configured to provide an identical phase shift Δφ. At least one phase shifter is connected to the input port. Furthermore, the multiphase signal generator includes a first phase interpolator and at least a second phase interpolator. Each phase interpolator has a respective output terminal. Each phase interpolator is configured to weight a phase of a signal at a respective first input terminal of the phase interpolator with a respective first weighting factor w.sub.i,1 and to weight a phase of another signal at a respective second input terminal of the phase interpolator with a respective second weighting factor w.sub.i,2 to generate an interpolated phase signal at the respective output terminal of the phase interpolator. A first subset of the plurality of phase shifters includes n>1 serially connected phase shifters. The first subset of phase shifters is coupled between the first input terminal and the second input terminal of the first phase interpolator. A different second subset of the plurality of phase shifters includes n serially connected phase shifters. The second subset of phase shifters is coupled between the first input terminal and the second input terminal of the second phase interpolator.

A system, method, and apparatus for continuous seed laser pulses supplied to a CW pumped pre-amplifier and/or power-amplifier chain comprises an optical modulator configured to impress pulse signals on an optical signal, a waveform generator configured to establish a structure of the optical signal, and a keep-alive circuit that generates a continuous electrical pulse pattern provided to the optical modulator, wherein the system provides a continuous seed laser pulse structure.

Described herein are nodes, sub-systems and systems of nodes for use in a dynamic node based computer. In some embodiments, nodes include: one or more signal receivers for detecting or receiving one or more input signals from one or more signal sources, one or more signal transmitters for selectively connecting and transmitting signals to one or more other nodes; and a threshold device configured to control the selective operation of the signal transmitter based on a threshold derived from one or more characteristics of the input signals. More complex variations of the nodes include the addition of threshold manipulation devices, signal amplifiers or dampeners, control devices, or computational devices. Also described herein are machines or devices built from one or more such nodes.

An electronic circuit and method are provided. The electronic circuit includes an in-phase (I)-quadrature (Q) amplifier including an I cascode branch and a Q cascode branch, the IQ amplifier configured to receive a differential input and control signals, control, based on the control signals, gate voltages in the I cascode branch and gate voltages in the Q cascode branch, generate an I output signal with the I cascode branch, and generate a Q output signal with the Q cascode branch, and a quadrature coupler configured to perform quadrature summation of the I output signal and the Q output signal and generate a final phase shifted output.

A wireless power transfer secondary or pick-up has a resonant circuit and a switch connected to the resonant circuit operable to produce a phase shift in an oscillating voltage or current in the resonant circuit. A controller is configured to operate the switch to introduce one or more controlled phase shifts in the oscillating voltage or current in the resonant circuit which encode data for detection by a coupled circuit.