A sensing device with a fingerprint sensor is provided. The sensing device includes a touch input pattern included in the fingerprint sensor, an oscillation circuit connected to the touch input pattern and configured to change a capacitance of the oscillation circuit when a touch occurrence is sensed by the touch input pattern and generate an oscillation signal based on the change in the capacitance, and an operation detection circuit configured to detect a touch occurrence based on a frequency included in the oscillation signal input from the oscillation circuit and generate a detection signal.

A finite impulse response (FIR) filter including a delay line and a plurality of arithmetic units. Each arithmetic unit is coupled to a different one of a plurality of tap points of the delay line, is configured to receive a respective signal value over the delay line, and is associated with a respective coefficient. Any given one of the arithmetic units is configured to receive a respective control word. The respective control word specifying: (i) a plurality of trivial multiplication operations, and (ii) a plurality of bit shift operations. Any given one of the arithmetic units is further configured to estimate or calculate a product of the respective signal of the arithmetic unit respective signal value and the respective coefficient of the arithmetic unit by performing the trivial multiplication operations and bit shift operations that are specified by the respective control word that is received at the given arithmetic unit.

Disclosed are an audio rate conversion system and an electronic apparatus. The audio rate conversion system includes an integrator-comb filter, a multi-rate filter and a first half-band filter, an input of the integrator-comb filter being accessed with digital audio data, an output of the integrator-comb filter being sequentially connected to the multi-rate filter and the first half-band filter; where, the integrator-comb filter is configured to reduce a rate of the digital audio data according to a preset decimation rate; the multi-rate filter is configured to convert a rate of digital audio data output by the integrator-comb filter into a rate of digital audio data corresponding to an accessed control signal according to the control signal; and the first half-band filter is configured to reduce a rate of digital audio data output by the multi-rate filter.

A switching operation sensing device includes an input operation unit, an oscillator circuit, a frequency digital converter, and a touch-force detector circuit. The input operation unit, integrally formed with a housing, includes a first switch member and a second switch member disposed in different positions. The oscillator circuit is configured to generate a first oscillation signal based on varying capacitance when the first switch member is touched, and a second oscillation signal based on varying inductance when an input force is applied to the second switch member. The frequency digital converter is configured to convert the first oscillation signal to a first count value, and convert the second oscillation signal to a second count value. The touch-force detector circuit is configured to generate a first detection signal by detecting a touch input based on the first count value input from the frequency digital converter, and generate a second detection signal by detecting an input force based on the second count value.

A switching operation sensing apparatus includes an input operation unit, an oscillation circuit, a frequency digital converter, and a touch detection circuit. The input operation unit includes a first switching member integrally formed with a housing. The oscillation circuit is configured to generate an oscillation signal having a resonant frequency, varying based on a capacitive change or an inductive change, depending on a touch input member in contact with the first switching member during an input operation. The frequency digital converter is configured to convert the oscillation signal into a count value. The touch detection circuit is configured to detect capacitive sensing and inductive sensing based on a slope change of the count value received from the frequency digital converter, and output corresponding touch detection signals of different levels based on the detection.

A DC-removing cascaded integrator-comb (CIC) filter circuit (40) includes N series-coupled integrator stages (401-405), a rate changer (406), and N series-coupled comb stages (407-411) which are configured to receive a CIC filter digital input signal and to generate a CIC filter digital output signal, wherein the N integrator stages include a first integrator stage (401) which includes a summation element (41) having first input for receiving a first input signal, a second input for receiving a second input signal, and an output coupled through a feedback delay element (42) to a multiplier element (43) which multiplies a DC-removing filter coefficient with an output of the feedback delay element to generate a product output that is provided to the second input of the summation element (41), thereby embedding a DC-removing filter in the N series-coupled integrator stages.

An analog-to-digital conversion system may include an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert an analog input signal into an equivalent digital input signal, a first filtering path configured to filter the equivalent digital input signal to generate a first filtered digital signal, wherein the first filtering path comprises a zero-overshoot monotonic step response filter, a second filtering path configured to filter the equivalent digital input signal to generate a second filtered digital signal, wherein the second filtering path comprises a frequency-selective filter; and a mixer configured to either: (i) select between the first filtered digital signal and the second filtered digital signal in order to generate an output digital signal; or (ii) combine selected proportions of each of the first filtered digital signal and the second filtered digital signal in order to generate the output digital signal.

A digital signal processor is designed to channelize an input signal, and includes a channelizer circuit and a plurality of tuning modules. The channelizer circuit is designed to receive an input signal having a first bandwidth and to channelize the input signal into a first set of channels each having a bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth as a first output signal and to channelize the input signal into a second set of channels having a bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth as a second output signal. The plurality of tuning modules are designed to receive one or more channels from the first output signal or the second output signal and to further downsample the one or more channels to a user-defined bandwidth at a user-defined center frequency. Each of the plurality of tuning modules include a plurality of FIR filter blocks and a memory having a plurality of FIR filter coefficients.

A device for signal processing includes a signal input, a control input, and a CIC filter of an nth order for filtering the input signal. The CIC filter includes n integrators, which are disposed one behind the other and include a memory in each case, and n is greater than one. For each of n−1 first integrators, the device includes an associated correction calculator for correcting an integration error using at least one signal value stored in the memory of the respective first integrator. The device transmits these stored signal values in response to the control signal to the associated correction calculators and to delete the memory of the remaining last integrator. Either the memories of the n−1 first integrators are also deleted, or the device includes a further correction calculator and the signal values are transmitted in response to the control signal also to the further correction calculator.

A method for removing low frequency offset components from a digital data stream includes receiving, at an input of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), an analog input signal from one or more analog front end components. The analog input signal has an associated low frequency offset due, at least in part, to the analog front end components. The method also includes generating, at an output of the ADC, a digital data stream representative of the analog input signal. The digital data stream having an associated low frequency offset due, at least in part, to the analog front end components and the ADC. One or more low pass finite impulse response (FIR) filters are applied to the digital data stream to detect the low frequency offset components in the digital data stream, and generate a filtered output signal with only the low frequency offset components present. A corrected digital data stream without the low frequency offset components is generated in response thereto, for example, by taking the difference of the filtered output signal from the digital data stream.