Patent classifications
H03D3/009
Demodulation device and demodulation method
A demodulation device includes a phase rotation module, a phase adjustment module, a phase comparison module, and a reference signal generation module. The phase rotation module rotates phases of an I-Phase signal and a Q-Phase signal in a received signal of a multilevel PSK signal using a reference signal. The phase adjustment module adjusts the phases of the phase rotated I-Phase signal and the phase rotated Q-Phase signal output from the phase rotation module by multiplying the phases of the I-Phase signal and the Q-Phase signal with an integer value to generate a phase adjusted I-Phase signal and a phase adjusted Q-Phase signal. The phase comparison module compares the phase of the phase adjusted I-Phase signal with the phase of the phase adjusted Q-Phase signal to generate a phase comparison result. Also, the reference signal generation module generates a reference signal using the phase comparison result.
FREQUENCY DEPENDENT RESIDUAL SIDEBAND DISTORTION CANCELLATION
Various aspects are described herein for frequency dependent residual sideband (FDRSB) cancellation. A network node may measure an FDRSB distortion and may calculate a thermal noise based at least in part on the FDRSB distortion and a received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The network node may identify, based at least in part on the thermal noise, the FDRSB, and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), whether to enable or disable FDRSB cancellation at a user equipment (UE). The network node may transmit an FDRSB cancellation message that indicates for the UE to enable FDRSB cancellation or that indicates for the UE to disable FDRSB cancellation, and the UE may selectively perform FDRSB cancellation based at least in part on the FDRSB cancellation message. This may reduce UE processing resources, UE energy consumption, and latency at a demodulator of the UE.
Automatic gain control circuit, corresponding receiver, transmitter and method
A receiver or transmitter circuit includes a signal propagation path between a radio-frequency (RF) signal node and a baseband processing circuit. Variable gain circuitry is configured to vary a gain applied to a signal propagating between the RF signal node and the baseband processing circuit. The variable gain circuitry varies the gain via first, coarse steps as well as via second, fine steps. This facilitates fine matching of the gains experienced by signals propagating over the in-phase and the quadrature branches in the transmitter and/or receiver circuit.
PRECISION RATE DEMODULATION FOR A VIBRATING GYROSCOPE
According to an embodiment, a circuit is proposed for generating rate and quadrature demodulation signals, incorporating unidirectional hysteresis for negative edges. The circuit features a preliminary stage that amplifies the differential sinusoidal signal from gyroscopic proof mass oscillations; a gain stage for boosting this signal with adjustable hysteresis levels; an output stage delivering a full-swing square wave output; and a customizable offset component to deepen the drop in the non-inverting compared to the inverting signal for the third signal's falling edge.
Precision rate demodulation for a vibrating gyroscope
According to an embodiment, a circuit is proposed for generating rate and quadrature demodulation signals, incorporating unidirectional hysteresis for negative edges. The circuit features a preliminary stage that amplifies the differential sinusoidal signal from gyroscopic proof mass oscillations; a gain stage for boosting this signal with adjustable hysteresis levels; an output stage delivering a full-swing square wave output; and a customizable offset component to deepen the drop in the non-inverting compared to the inverting signal for the third signal's falling edge.
Circuit and method to detect faults of a MEMS device including an oscillating mass
Faults in a periodically oscillating MEMS mass are detected by processing a position signal, having an amplitude and oscillation frequency, generated as a function of mass position. First and second reference signals formed by samples of quadrature sinusoids at the oscillation frequency are generated. First and second multipliers generate a first product signal and a second product signal, respectively, via multiplication of the position signal by the first and second reference signals. The first and second product signals are low pass filtered to generate first and second filtered signals, respectively. An estimator circuit determines estimates of the amplitude as a function of the first and second filtered signals. A decision circuit detects the presence of faults on the basis of a comparison of the estimates with a range of values.