A network element for distributing timing information includes a signal interface for receiving satellite signals transmitted by a satellite system and a processing system for producing the timing information based on the satellite signals and on assistance information received from a data transfer network. The network element transmits the timing information to the data transfer network in accordance with a timing transfer protocol. At a start-up, the network element requests a dynamic host configuration protocol server to send host configuration data containing a protocol address to be associated with the network element. The network element reads, from the host configuration data, information enabling the network element to get aware of the assistance information and obtains the assistance information in accordance with the read information. Thus, the dynamic host configuration protocol server enables the network element to operate as a network-assisted source of satellite-based timing.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to devices, wireless communication apparatuses, methods, and circuitry for a t-switch with gate shunting. One aspect is an apparatus including a first differential switch having a control input. The apparatus further includes a second differential switch coupled to the first differential switch, the second differential switch a control input. A shunt capacitor is coupled between a first output and a second output of the first differential switch, and a first input and a second input of the second differential switch. A first shunt switch having a control input, an input, and an output has the input and the output coupled to the control input of the first differential switch. A second shunt switch having a control input, an input, and an output, has the input and the output coupled to the control input of the second differential switch.

Various example embodiments herein provide methods, circuits, and systems, for controlling a multicycle path in a serializer interface. The method includes determining a desired delay window of a multicycle data path in a serializer interface by sampling at least one step response from serializer delay replica circuitry at an edge of a first clock signal and a gating signal, in response to synchronizing a second clock signal with a negative edge of the first clock signal, configuring a polarity of a latch in a subsequent serializer of a serializer chain based on the determined desired delay window, and controlling the multicycle data path in the serializer interface based on the configured polarity of the latch in the subsequent serializer of the serializer chain.

A sense channel signal processing block is time-domain multiplexed among multiple MEMS devices and utilizes an anti-aliasing filter disposed after track-and-hold switches, to prevent the bandwidth of the sense channel from being limited by the anti-aliasing filter.

Disclosed is a time-division multi-channel transmission and reception system including a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a first transmit channel that outputs a first transmit signal based on a first time-division pulse signal, a second transmit channel that outputs a second transmit signal based on a second time-division pulse signal, and a time-division pulse generator that generates the first time-division pulse signal and the second time-division pulse signal based on a clock signal. The first transmit signal and the second transmit signal are separated from each other in time.

Disclosed is a time-division multi-channel transmission and reception system including a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a first transmit channel that outputs a first transmit signal based on a first time-division pulse signal, a second transmit channel that outputs a second transmit signal based on a second time-division pulse signal, and a time-division pulse generator that generates the first time-division pulse signal and the second time-division pulse signal based on a clock signal. The first transmit signal and the second transmit signal are separated from each other in time.