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Bit-serial digital expandor

US5793315A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 31, 1996
Grant dateAug 11, 1998
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Expiry dateMay 31, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03G11/008
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A bit-serial digital expandor includes a bit-serial dual scaler block (340), a bit-serial rectifier block (320), a bit-serial lowpass wave digital filter block (350), a bit-serial scaler with overflow detection block (360), a bit-serial multiplier block (380), and a bit-serial scaler and clipper block (395). This bit-serial expandor can be used in an AMPS cellular telephone receiver to produce a receiver having a lower silicon area, gate count, and current drain compared to equivalent parallel architecture receivers.

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