Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring sidelink slots with multiple automatic gain control symbols. One aspect provides a method for wireless communication by a user equipment, including enabling a slot configuration comprising at least two symbols configured for use by a receiver for automatic gain control in preconfigured symbol locations within a slot, and transmitting the at least two symbols while transmitting symbols within the slot.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring sidelink slots without symbols for automatic gain control. One aspect provides a method for wireless communication by a user equipment, including receiving a first cyclic prefix of a first symbol within a slot at the user equipment. The method further includes configuring a first automatic gain control setting based on a received power in the first cyclic prefix of the first symbol, and receiving a data portion of the first symbol using the first automatic gain control setting.

A variable gain amplifier includes a first transconductor circuit coupled to a first input terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal of the variable gain amplifier, the first transconductor circuit including: a plurality of positive coefficient transistors coupled to the first output terminal and configured to selectively conduct current in response to a first binary code, a plurality of negative coefficient transistors coupled to the second output terminal and configured to selectively conduct current in response to a second binary code, and a plurality of amplifying transistors, each having a gate electrode coupled to the first input terminal, a first electrode coupled to a ground reference, and a second electrode coupled to a pair of coefficient transistors including one of the plurality of positive coefficient transistors and one of the plurality of negative coefficient transistors.

A method of controlling a signal power of a received signal received by a wireless communication device, the method including: measuring the signal power of the received signal at a plurality of time points in response to a gain control signal; calculating a variance of the signal power of the received signal at at least some time points of the plurality of time points; and controlling the signal power of the received signal based on a gain level determined according to the variance of the signal power of the received signal.

A voice aware audio system and a method for a user wearing a headset to be aware of an outer sound environment while listening to music or any other audio source. An adjustable sound awareness zone gives the user the flexibility to avoid hearing far distant voices. The outer sound can be analyzed in a frequency domain to select an oscillating frequency candidate and in a time domain to determine if the oscillating frequency candidate is the signal of interest. If the signal directed to the outer sound is determined to be a signal of interest the outer sound is mixed with audio from the audio source.

An apparatus for processing an audio signal includes an audio signal analyzer and a filter. The audio signal analyzer is configured to analyze an audio signal to determine a plurality of noise suppression filter values for a plurality of bands of the audio signal, wherein the analyzer is configured to determine a noise suppression filter value so that a noise suppression filter value is greater than or equal to a minimum noise suppression filter value and so that the minimum noise suppression value depends on a characteristic of the audio signal. The filter is configured for filtering the audio signal, wherein the filter is adjusted based on the noise suppression filter values.

A method for processing an audio signal includes setting target loudness; receiving metadata of an audio signal from a server; and adjusting the loudness of the audio signal by using the received metadata, so that the loudness of the audio signal corresponds to the set target loudness.

A voltage converter for medical devices includes a switch capacitor converter core including a plurality of power transistor switches configured to receive an input voltage and output an output voltage; a switch driver connected with the switch capacitor converter core and configured to turn on corresponding power transistor switches in the switch capacitor converter core so as to supply power to a load receiving the output voltage; a switch signal router connected with the switch driver and configured to selectively transmit signals required by the switch driver; a gain selection decoder connected with the switch signal router; a gain controller connected with the gain selection decoder, the gain selection decoder being configured to decode gain selection instructions transmitted from the gain controller; an input adjusting device connected with the gain controller and configured to receive the input voltage and a reference voltage, to indicate relationship between the input voltage and the reference voltage, and to transmit the relationship to the gain controller; and an output adjusting device connected with the gain controller and configured to receive the output voltage and the reference voltage, to indicate relationship between the output voltage and the reference voltage, and to transmit the relationship to the gain controller.

A system, a method for interleaving a digital audio signal including a PWM signal, and a digital audio processing device employing the same in accordance with the present invention are disclosed. The system, the method and the digital audio processing device is capable of minimizing the interference with an RF signal such as an AM signal or an FM signal by interleaving the digital audio signal including the PWM signal.

Provided are a scalable analog passive intermodulation (PIM) module, a method of controlling analog PIM, a signal processing circuit, and a sensor device. The scalable analog PIM module includes a first plural number of digital-to-analog converters (DACs), a first plural number of static random access memory (SRAM) calculators connected to the first plural number of DACs, at least one analog-to-digital converter (ADC) connected to the first plural number of SRAM calculators and configured to convert an analog convolution result signal into digital convolution data, and an analog PIM controller configured to output an enable control signal for enabling a second number, which is equal to or less than first plural number, of SRAM calculators among the first plural number of SRAM calculators to the first plural number of SRAM calculators on the basis of the convolution data output from the ADC.