A frequency modulation circuit includes a VCO, a DIV, a MIX, a single-phase differential converter, and a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit performs differential arithmetic processing of an intermediate frequency signal with a program of a microcomputer according to a quadrature demodulation scheme and, thereafter, measures a frequency from phase information, performs n-th order polynomial (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) approximation on time-frequency data of an IF signal output by a chirp modulation control voltage after inverse function correction, and performs modulation correction for correcting a time error.

A wireless system includes a local oscillator (LO) signal generation circuit, a receiver (RX) circuit, and a calibration circuit. The LO signal generation circuit generates an LO signal according to a reference clock. The LO signal generation circuit includes an active oscillator. The active oscillator generates the reference clock, wherein the active oscillator includes at least one active component, and does not include an electromechanical resonator. The RX circuit generates a down-converted RX signal by performing down-conversion upon an RX input signal according to the LO signal. The calibration circuit generates a frequency calibration control output according to a signal characteristic of the down-converted RX signal, and outputs the frequency calibration control output to the LO signal generation circuit. The LO signal generation circuit adjusts an LO frequency of the LO signal in response to the frequency calibration control output.

Provided an active suppression controller with an adaptive algorithm capable of tracking the fluctuation of multi-fundamental frequencies and correcting them while the deviation is divergence based on the DXHS (Delayed-X Harmonics Synthesizer). It includes a controller's architecture, an adaptive frequency tracking & correcting algorithm and its FPGA implementation structure in real-time.

Provided an active suppression controller with an adaptive algorithm capable of tracking the fluctuation of multi-fundamental frequencies and correcting them while the deviation is divergence based on the DXHS (Delayed-X Harmonics Synthesizer). It includes a controller's architecture, an adaptive frequency tracking & correcting algorithm and its FPGA implementation structure in real-time.

An eyelid position sensor system for an ophthalmic lens comprising an electronic system is described herein for adjusting an oscillator frequency on the lens. In at least one embodiment, the frequency adjustment is based on at least one signal received by the contact lens. In a further embodiment, the at least one signal includes a signal providing a plurality of transitions to compare to transitions in an oscillator output signal. In at least one embodiment, the source of the external signal is lighting. In at least one embodiment, updating the oscillator frequency between two lenses.

In some embodiments a method of depositing a metal-containing layer atop a substrate disposed in a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber includes: providing a plasma forming gas to a processing region of the PVD chamber; providing a first amount of RF power to a target assembly disposed opposite the substrate to form a plasma within the processing region of the PVD chamber; sputtering source material from the target assembly to deposit a metal-containing layer onto the substrate, wherein the source material is at a first erosion state; and tuning an auto capacitance tuner coupled to a substrate support while sputtering source material to maintain an ion energy at a surface of the substrate within a predetermined range as the target erodes from the first erosion state to a second erosion state.

In some embodiments a method of depositing a metal-containing layer atop a substrate disposed in a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber includes: providing a plasma forming gas to a processing region of the PVD chamber; providing a first amount of RF power to a target assembly disposed opposite the substrate to form a plasma within the processing region of the PVD chamber; sputtering source material from the target assembly to deposit a metal-containing layer onto the substrate, wherein the source material is at a first erosion state; and tuning an auto capacitance tuner coupled to a substrate support while sputtering source material to maintain an ion energy at a surface of the substrate within a predetermined range as the target erodes from the first erosion state to a second erosion state.

An RFID reader, tuning method and computer readable medium. A carrier signal is transmitted. A plurality of feedback signals produced in the RFID reader are measured when transmitting the carrier signal with a variable matching network set at a plurality of impedance values that are different from one another. It is determined which impedance value of the plurality of impedance values produced a feedback signal having a highest level of the plurality of feedback signals. The variable matching network is set to the determined impedance value.

An RFID reader, tuning method and computer readable medium. A carrier signal is transmitted. A plurality of feedback signals produced in the RFID reader are measured when transmitting the carrier signal with a variable matching network set at a plurality of impedance values that are different from one another. It is determined which impedance value of the plurality of impedance values produced a feedback signal having a highest level of the plurality of feedback signals. The variable matching network is set to the determined impedance value.

A frequency modulation circuit [[110-1]] includes a VCO [[5]], a DIV [[19]], a MIX [[20]], a single-phase differential converter [[18]], and a signal processing circuit [[6]]. The signal processing circuit [[6]] performs differential arithmetic processing of an intermediate frequency signal with a program of a microcomputer according to a quadrature demodulation scheme and, thereafter, measures a frequency from phase information, performs n-th order polynomial (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) approximation on time-frequency data of an IF signal output by a chirp modulation control voltage after inverse function correction, and performs modulation correction for correcting a time error.