Wireless power transfer—near field communication enabled communication device

摘要

Various configurations and arrangements of various communication devices are disclosed. Various integrated circuits that form these communication devices can be fabricated onto one or more semiconductor substrates, chips, and/or dies using a high voltage semiconductor process, a low voltage semiconductor process, or any combination thereof. Some of these high voltage and/or low voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits can be fabricated along with other high voltage and/or low voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits of other modules onto a single semiconductor substrate, chip, and/or die. This allows the low voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits and/or high voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits of one module to be combined with low voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits and/or high voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits of another module of the communication device.

主权项

1. A wireless power transfer (WPT) enabled communication device, comprising:
a plurality of modules configured to provide communication with a plurality of communication devices according to a plurality of communication standards; a communication interface configured to communicatively couple the plurality of modules to one another, wherein a first module from among the plurality of modules is configured to implement a near field communication (NFC) standard and a WPT standard from among the plurality of communication standards, the first module comprising a front end module (FEM) communicatively coupled to an NFC controller, the FEM being fabricated using a high voltage semiconductor process and the NFC controller being fabricated using a low voltage semiconductor process, wherein the FEM is configured to communicate with an NFC capable device from among the plurality of communication devices in accordance with the NFC standard or with a second WPT enabled communication device from among the plurality of communication devices in accordance with the WPT standard.