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US 11,973,479 · App. 17/508,686 · Granted Apr 30, 2024

Two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion and audio terminal

Inventors: Liuan Zhang (Shenzhen, CN); Yulin Tan (Shenzhen, CN); Jon Sweat Duster (Beaverton, OR); Ning Zhang (Shenzhen, CN); Haigang Feng (Shenzhen, CN); Erkan Alpman (Portland, OR)
Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
H03G3/3005G11B20/10027H03G3/001H03M1/185G11B20/10037
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Patent No.
US 11,973,479
App. No.
17/508,686
Granted
Apr 30, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are a two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion and an audio terminal. The two-stage audio gain circuit includes a PGA configured to receive an analog audio signal and perform programmable gain amplification processing on the received analog audio signal; an ADC configured to convert the analog audio signal after the programmable gain amplification processing into a digital audio signal and output the digital audio signal; a first AGC gain unit configured to perform a first AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a first gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal; and a second AGC gain unit configured to perform a second AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a second gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal.

Claims (30)

1. A two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion, comprising:

a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) configured to receive an analog audio signal and perform programmable gain amplification processing on the received analog audio signal;

an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the analog audio signal after the programmable gain amplification processing into a digital audio signal and output the digital audio signal;

a first automatic gain control (AGC) gain unit configured to perform a first AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a first gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal according to the first gain adjustment value; and

a second AGC gain unit configured to perform a second AGC processing on the digital audio signal and output a second gain adjustment value to the PGA, for the PGA to perform gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal according to the second gain adjustment value,

wherein both the first AGC gain unit and the second AGC gain unit comprise:

an envelope taking unit, configured to perform absolute value processing on an audio value of the digital audio signal to take an absolution value of the audio value, and obtain an envelope curve of the digital audio signal;

a moving average unit, configured to perform moving average processing on the envelope curve;

an amplitude statistics unit, configured to perform statistics on an effective value of the envelope curve after the moving average processing, and output an effective statistical value; and

a gain value output unit, configured to obtain and output a gain adjustment value to be adjusted according to the effective statistical value.

2. The two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion of claim 1 , wherein the second AGC gain unit is further configured to convert the second gain adjustment value into a multiplier coefficient;

the two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion further comprises:

a multiplier, configured to multiply the digital audio signal with the multiplier coefficient converted by the second AGC gain unit to perform digital gain adjustment.

3. An audio terminal, comprising the two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion of claim 1 .

4. The two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion of claim 1 , wherein the gain value output unit comprises a soft AGC unit, a table look-up AGC unit and a data selector;

the soft AGC unit is configured to determine the gain adjustment value to be adjusted according to a current effective statistical value and a preset target gain value;

the table look-up AGC unit is configured to look up a preset gain adjustment value mapping table according to the current effective statistical value to determine the gain adjustment value to be adjusted; and

the data selector is configured to output the gain adjustment value determined by the soft AGC unit or output the gain adjustment value determined by the table look-up AGC unit.

5. The two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion of claim 1 , wherein the moving average unit is configured to perform moving average processing on the envelope curve according to a preset calculation formula

[ X ( n )+ X ( n− 1)+ . . . + X ( n−N+ 1)]/ N;

X is an absolute value of the audio value of the digital audio signal, and N is any number from 1 to 128.

6. The two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion of claim 1 , wherein the PGA comprises a first PGA and a second PGA;

the first PGA is configured to perform a first gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal according to the first gain adjustment value; and

the second PGA is configured to perform a second gain adjustment on the received analog audio signal according to the second gain adjustment value.

7. The two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion of claim 6 , wherein the first gain adjustment is adjusted in a first preset range, and an adjustment accuracy of the first preset range is a first preset accuracy;

the second gain adjustment is adjusted in a second preset range, and an adjustment accuracy of the second preset range is a second preset accuracy; and

the first preset accuracy is greater than the second preset accuracy.

8. The two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion of claim 1 , further comprising a filter unit configured to perform filtering processing on the digital audio signal for which the PGA performs gain adjustment.

9. The two-stage audio gain circuit based on analog-to-digital conversion of claim 8 , wherein the filter unit comprises a cascaded integrator-comb (CIC) filter, a first half band filter (HBF) and a second HBF connected in sequence,

an input end of the CIC filter is an input end of the filter unit, and an output end of the second HBF is an output end of the filter unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 22, 2021
From: ZHANG, LIUAN; TAN, YULIN; DUSTER, JON SWEAT; ZHANG, NING; FENG, HAIGANG; ALPMAN, ERKAN
To: RADIAWAVE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057882/0631 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201910365778.5 · Apr 29, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
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