H03D1/04

Enhanced IQ mismatch correction function generator

An IQ mismatch correction function generator configured to generate an enhanced IQ mismatch correction function to improve the compensation for IQ mismatch, and an IQ signal receiver with the IQ mismatch correction function generator, wherein the enhanced IQ mismatch correction function is determined based on an initial IQ mismatch correction function derived from IQ mismatch estimates corresponding to frequency bins where signals are present and error of the initial IQ mismatch correction function by comparing the values of the initial IQ mismatch correction function with IQ mismatch estimates corresponding to a respective bin of the frequency bins.

Distortion cancellation

The present disclosure provides for distortion cancelled by receiving a collided signal comprising first and second signals carrying respective first and second packets; digitizing the collided signal into a first digital signal and decoding the first packet therefrom; calculating a digital linear interference component of the first packet on the second from an estimated signal re-encoding the decoded first packet; synthesizing an analog linear interference component from the digital linear interference component; determining a digital nonlinear interference component of the first packet on the second from the first digital signal; amplifying the collided signal to produce a second amplified signal; removing the analog linear interference component from the second amplified signal to produce a partially de-interfered signal; removing the digital nonlinear interference component from the partially de-interfered signal to produce a de-interfered signal; and decoding the second packet from the de-interfered signal.

Filter circuit

A filter circuit may include a first path having a first complex baseband filter. The circuit may further include a second path having a second complex baseband filter. The circuit may further include a combiner coupled to an output of the first complex baseband filter and an output of the second complex baseband filter.

Filter circuit

A filter circuit may include a first path having a first complex baseband filter. The circuit may further include a second path having a second complex baseband filter. The circuit may further include a combiner coupled to an output of the first complex baseband filter and an output of the second complex baseband filter.

Distortion cancellation

The present disclosure provides for distortion cancelled by receiving a collided signal, the collided signal comprising a first signal carrying a first packet and a second signal carrying a second packet; amplifying and digitizing the collided signal into a first digital signal at a first gain and a second digital signal at a second gain that is greater than the first gain; determining a nonlinear interference component of the first packet on the second packet from the first digital signal; decoding the first packet from the first digital signal; re-encoding the first packet with a first estimated channel effect into an estimated signal; calculating a linear interference component of the first packet on the second packet from the estimated signal; removing the linear interference component and the nonlinear interference component from the second digital signal to produce a de-interfered signal; and decoding the second packet from the de-interfered signal.

Electronic control unit

An electronic control unit coupled to a transmission line of a differential signal includes: a first suppression circuit suppressing a ringing effect and decreasing an impedance of the line for a first time interval when a level of the differential signal changes; a second suppression circuits suppressing a ringing effect and decreasing the impedance of the line for a second time interval when the level of the differential signal changes; and a switching unit isolating the second suppression circuit from the line when the operation power source energizes the electronic control unit, and connecting the second suppression circuit to the line when the operation power source does not energize the electronic control unit.

Non-linear interference detection

A method, detector and radio unit for non-linear interference detection in a communication system having a victim signal and an offending signal are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes determining a magnitude of the victim signal raised to a first power to produce a first signal. The method also includes determining a magnitude of the offending signal raised to a second power to produce a second signal. The first signal and the second signal are correlated to produce an output signal indicative of an extent to which the offending signal interferes with the victim signal.

Current-to-voltage converter providing variable bandwidth and apparatus including the same

Provided is a current-to-voltage converter for converting a current signal into a voltage signal. The current-to-voltage converter may include: a trans-impedance amplifier including an input terminal and an output terminal; a resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit including a first end and a second end respectively connected to the input terminal and the output terminal of the trans-impedance amplifier, and a resistor and a capacitor connected to each other in parallel between the first end and the second end; and a plurality of switches configured to form at least one of a first converting circuit configured to convert the current signal via the trans-impedance amplifier and the RC circuit in a wide bandwidth mode, and a second converting circuit configured to convert the current signal via the RC circuit in a narrow bandwidth mode.

Beamspace nonlinear equalization for spur reduction
10536302 · 2020-01-14 · ·

System and method for beamspace nonlinear equalization in a plurality of parallel channels includes: receiving M parallel signals for transmission by N channels, respectively, wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and N is an integer greater than 1; performing a linear transfer function on each of the M parallel signal by a finite impulse response (FIR) filter; adding FIR filter tap outputs to each M parallel signals, respectively; phase shifting an output of a respective FIR filter per each of the M parallel signals to generate M intermediate channelized output signals per each of the N channels; summing, by a single summer, the M intermediate channelized output signals across the N channels to produce M channelized polyphase output signals; serializing the M channelized polyphase output signals to generate serialized M polyphase output signals; and equalizing the serialized M polyphase output signals to produce a linearized signal in beamspace.

PASSIVE MIXER WITH REDUCED SECOND ORDER INTERMODULATION
20190379327 · 2019-12-12 ·

The present disclosure generally relates to the field of receiver structures in radio communication systems and more specifically to passive mixers in the receiver structure and to a technique for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency. A passive mixer for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency comprises a cancellation component for generating a first cancellation signal for cancelling second order intermodulation components by superimposing the first signal weighted by a cancellation value on the third signal; and a mixing component having a first terminal for receiving the first signal, a second terminal for outputting the second signal, and a third terminal for receiving the first cancellation signal, wherein the mixing component is adapted to provide the second signal as output at the second terminal by mixing the first signal provided as input at the first terminal and the first cancellation signal provided as input at the third terminal.