Microphone assembly with pulse density modulated signal

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9894437
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15428050

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The disclosure relates to a microphone assembly comprising a multibit analog-to-digital converter configured to receive, sample, and quantize a microphone signal to generate N-bit digital microphone samples representative of the microphone signal at a first sampling frequency. The microphone assembly also comprises a first digital-to-digital converter configured to receive, quantize, and noise-shape the N-bit digital microphone samples to generate a corresponding M-bit Pulse Density Modulated (PDM) signal, wherein N and M are positive integers, and N>M. The microphone assembly may comprise a SoundWire compliant data interface configured to repeatedly receive samples of the M-bit PDM signal and write bits of the M-bit PDM signal to a SoundWire data frame.

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KNOWLES ELECTRONICS LLCILLINOIS AMERICA

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Berthelsen, Kim Spetzler Koge, DK 26 682
Pawlowski, Andrzej Virum, DK 9 37
Strange, Kasper Copenhagen, DK 8 418
Thomsen, Henrik Holte, DK 48 1104

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