US 12,149,221 B2
Analog FIR filter
Aravind Heragu, Renens (CH); and Eric Vandel, Concise (CH)
Assigned to SEMTECH CORPORATION, Camarillo, CA (US)
Filed by Semtech Corporation, Camarillo, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/370,565.
Claims priority of application No. 20185720 (EP), filed on Jul. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0021374 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. H03H 17/02 (2006.01); H03H 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC H03H 17/02 (2013.01) [H03H 2017/0081 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A FIR filter, comprising an input terminal for receiving an input signal, a first filtering circuit comprising: a first integrating capacitor, a first transconductance circuit configured to generate a first current signal proportional to the input signal; a first analog switch commuted by a first digital gate signal and configured to block the first current signal when the first digital gate signal has a first value and to transmit the first current signal to the first integrating capacitor when the first digital gate signal has a second value; wherein the first digital gate signal comprises a periodic series of pulses, wherein the pulses have widths proportional to a set of coefficients of the FIR filter.