Patent classifications
H04B1/0007
SIGNAL SENDING CIRCUIT, SIGNAL RECEIVING CIRCUIT, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND BASE STATION
The present disclosure relates to signal sending circuits, signal receiving circuits, electronic apparatus, and base stations. One example circuit includes a signal pre-processing sub-circuit, a digital-to-analog conversion sub-circuit, an intermediate frequency power splitter, K frequency conversion phase-shift sub-circuits, and K antenna elements. An output end of the signal pre-processing sub-circuit is connected to an input end of the digital-to-analog conversion sub-circuit, an output end of the digital-to-analog conversion sub-circuit is connected to an input end of the intermediate frequency power splitter, an output end of the intermediate frequency power splitter is connected to input ends of the K frequency conversion phase-shift sub-circuits, and output ends of the K frequency conversion phase-shift sub-circuits are connected one-to-one to input ends of the K antenna elements.
Communication hardware virtualization
A communication system comprising: input buffers adapted for buffering incoming data streams of samples from one or more channels; a receiver adapted for sequentially processing data from the input buffers; a processing rate of the receiver is higher than or equal to an incoming data rate of the incoming data; context memory adapted for saving an internal status of the receiver after processing the data corresponding with an input buffer before switching to a next input buffer and for restoring the internal status, wherein the receiver is adapted for processing the incoming data in a frame detection phase, and in a frame demodulation phase in which frames and/or subframes are demodulated into bits and wherein the internal status of the receiver related to an input buffer is only saved and restored in the frame detection phase or before and after demodulating subframes.
Sampling threshold detector for direct monitoring of RF signals
The peak level of a high frequency analog signal in an RF receiver is detected by a system which samples the signal and compares it against a static threshold, generating an above/below status. The system is implemented with a sampler of sufficient aperture bandwidth to capture the signal in question, operated at a clock frequency, dynamically chosen as a function of f.sub.LO (local oscillator frequency) and the desired f.sub.IF (intermediate frequency), to minimize in-band intermodulation products. The sampler produces kickback intermodulation products that are positioned out-of-band, or are of low enough power in-band so as to be inconsequential. Samples are taken for a statistically significant period of time, and the status is used to adapt the threshold to systematically determine the peak amplitude of the signal being observed.
WIRELESS TRANSMITTER USING A WIDEBAND DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER FOR PROCESSING MULTIPLE CHANNELS IN A DIGITAL RADIO-FREQUENCY SIGNAL
A wireless transmitter processing chain includes digital radio frequency mixing circuitry to generate, in digital form, a representation of a transmit signal including multiple communication channels. From the digital representation, a wideband digital to analog converter creates the analog transmit signal that includes the communication channels. Individual mixers and filters follow, with mixing frequencies tuned to place the communication channels at the desired frequency centers.
INTEGRATED MIXED-SIGNAL ASIC WITH ADC, DAC, AND DSP
An integrated analog to digital converting and digital to analog converting (ADDA) RF transceiver for satellite applications, configured to replace conventional analog RF down and up conversion circuitry. The ADDA RF transceiver includes one of more ADCs, DSPs, and DACs, all on a single ASIC. Further, the circuitry is to be radiation tolerant for high availability and reliability in the ionizing radiation environment present in the space environment.
DATA FORMATTING OF A LOW VOLTAGE DRIVE CIRCUIT DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
A method executable by a low voltage drive circuit (LVDC) includes receiving an analog receive signal, converting the analog receive signal into analog inbound data, converting the analog inbound data into digital inbound data, filtering the digital inbound data to produce filtered digital data, sampling and holding an n-bit digital value of the filtered digital data to produce an n-bit sampled digital data value, adjusting formatting of the n-bit sampled digital data value to produce a formatted digital value, and generating a packet of received digital data from a plurality of formatted digital values.
RADIO TRANSCEIVER DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR DITHERING OF A RECEIVED SIGNAL
There is provided a radio transceiver device. The radio transceiver device comprises an antenna. The radio transceiver device further comprises a signal processing module. The radio transceiver device further comprises a receiver chain configured to receive a first signal. The receiver chain extends from the antenna to the signal processing module and at least comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and is thereby configured to receive a first signal from the antenna and provide the first signal to the signal processing module after application of analog-to-digital conversion in the ADC to the first signal. The radio transceiver device further comprises a transmitter chain. The transmitter chain extends from the signal processing module to the antenna and at least comprises a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and is thereby configured to receive a second signal from the signal processing module and provide the second signal to the antenna after application of digital-to-analog conversion in the DAC. The DAC is configured to generate a dither signal and is connected to the receiver chain for application of the dither signal to the first signal before application of analog-to-digital conversion in the ADC to the first signal.
Software configurable distributed antenna system and method for bandwidth compression and transport of signals in noncontiguous frequency blocks
A method for transporting communications signals includes receiving an analog IF signal at a first unit. The analog IF signal includes a first carrier having a first frequency and a first bandwidth and a second carrier having a second frequency different from the first frequency and a second bandwidth. The analog IF signal is converted to a digitally sampled IF signal having the first carrier located in a first Nyquist zone, the second carrier located in a second Nyquist zone, an image of the first carrier located in a third Nyquist zone, and an image of the second carrier located in the third Nyquist zone. The image of the first carrier and the image of the second carrier is transmitted from the first unit to a second unit, where the image of the first carrier and the image of the second carrier is then converted to the analog IF signal.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME SELF-MONITORING OF MULTI-CARRIER TRANSMISSION QUALITY
Embodiments described herein provide a method and apparatus for monitoring and correcting a transmit signal. A first sample is taken before the signal is input to a digital to analog converter (DAC) in a transmit chain. A second sample is taken of the transmit signal after the signal has passed through the power amplifier (PA). The first and second transmit samples are then compared and an equalizer interpolation value is determined. This equalizer interpolation value is applied to the transmit signal before transmission to provide a transmit signal with improved quality. The apparatus includes a feedback receive correction unit; a time domain processor in communication with the feedback receive correction unit; a frequency domain processing equalizer in communication with the time domain processor; an equalizer interpolation unit; an absolute value squaring unit in communication with the equalizer interpolation unit; and a processor for computation of a transmit quality parameter.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING DIGITAL RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) SIGNAL
Disclosed is a digital radio frequency (RF) signal receiving apparatus including an RF filter configured to convert multichannel wireless signals received through an antenna into signals available for digital sampling, an analog-to-digital converter configured to perform digital sampling on the multichannel wireless signals converted by the RF filter, a digital processor configured to perform filtering on each of the digital-sampled multichannel wireless signals into a plurality of bandwidth signals within a maximum bandwidth range simultaneously, and down-convert the filtered multichannel wireless signals to be signals in a baseband, a data formatter configured to format the down-converted signals based on an input/output data form of transmission interfaces, and a data transmitter configured to simultaneously transmit each of formatted signals to a corresponding processing platform.