H04L2027/0018

Spread spectrum communication device

A microprocessor includes a memory, an input/output port and a switch controller. Transmission data, a spread code and an inverted code are stored in the memory. The switch controller generates a spread spectrum signal by calling up either of the spread code or the inverted code in accordance with a bit of the transmission data. A switch connected to the input/output port is switched on and off based on the spread spectrum signal. In addition, an antenna is connected to the input/output port via a coupler. An oscillation circuit includes a reference oscillator and a BPF and inputs a harmonic of a reference signal to the coupler as a carrier wave.

Communication device and a method for operating a communication device
09716558 · 2017-07-25 · ·

A method and device for providing access to a radio frequency (RF) unit of the device, comprising assigning a static weight value to each of a plurality of signals, calculating a true weight value for each signal comprising modifying the static weight value with a dynamic value, wherein the dynamic value is based on at least one of a performance consideration value or a signal status value, determining a signal with a highest true weight value from the plurality of signals; and providing the signal with the highest true weight value access to the RF unit of the device.

TRANSMITTER WITH COMPENSATING MECHANISM OF PULLING EFFECT
20170194990 · 2017-07-06 ·

A transmitter with compensating mechanism of pulling effect includes an output unit and a correction unit. The output unit mixes a first correction signal and a second correction signal according to an oscillating signal to generate a modulated signal, and to amplify the modulated signal to generate a first output signal. The correction unit analyzes the power of the first output signal to generate a first coefficient and a second coefficient, and generate the first correction signal and the second correction signal according to the first coefficient, the second coefficient, an in-phase data signal, and a quadrature data signal.

Uplink frequency hopping and scheduling

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine an amount of time between uplink allocations that is needed for performing frequency retuning during operation at a subcarrier spacing (SCS). The UE may perform frequency retuning in association with hopping from a first set of frequency resources, associated with transmitting a first uplink transmission, to a second set of frequency resources, associated with transmitting a second uplink transmission, during operation at the SCS, wherein the frequency retuning is performed during a set of consecutive unallocated resources determined based at least in part on the amount of time between uplink allocations that is needed for performing frequency retuning. Numerous other aspects are described.

Circuit, communication unit and method for VCO frequency adjustment
09628308 · 2017-04-18 · ·

A circuit includes a frequency generation circuit having a phase locked loop, PLL, arranged to generate a carrier frequency; and a controller operably coupled to the frequency generation circuit and arranged to determine a frequency location of one or more signals output by the frequency generation circuit and provide a control signal thereto to adjust the carrier frequency generated by the frequency generation circuit. The controller is arranged to: cooperate with the PLL to introduce a frequency offset in the generated carrier frequency in a first frequency direction; and introduce a compensating frequency offset in a baseband transmit signal in a second frequency direction opposite to the first frequency direction.

Millimeter-wave modulation device

Provided is a lower power and high efficiency millimeter-wave modulation apparatus capable of modulating digital data into transmitting signals in a millimeter frequency band, the millimeter-wave modulation apparatus including; a modulation part, which carries out a modulation of a constant envelope attribute, and to which a first local oscillation signal is fixed according to a rate of input data; a phase shifter adopted to shift a phase of an output of the modulation part; a power amplifier adopted to amplify an output of the phase shifter; and an antenna connected to an output of the power amplifier.

TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT, HIGH-FREQUENCY FRONT-END CIRCUIT, TRANSMISSION SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD, AND HIGH-FREQUENCY FRONT-END TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD

A transmission circuit includes a transmission signal generation unit, a control unit, and a transmission signal amplification unit. The transmission signal generation unit generates a transmission signal that has been modulated. The transmission signal amplification unit includes a power amplifier that amplifies the transmission signal. The control unit determines a supply voltage signal having an amplitude characteristic of a period identical to that of an envelope of the transmission signal and supplies the supply voltage signal to the power amplifier. The control unit determines an output timing of the supply voltage signal such that a phase difference between a phase of the envelope of the transmission signal and a phase of the supply voltage signal does not become zero.

Mismatch compensating device and method, and mismatch detecting device
09564979 · 2017-02-07 · ·

A mismatch compensating device includes: a signal generator, synchronously outputting first and second signal; a gain and phase compensator, processing the first and second signals according to a gain parameter and a phase parameter to generate compensated first and second signals; a DAC, performing a digital-to-analog conversion on the compensated first and second signals to generate first and second analog signals; an analog front-end circuit, processing the first and second analog signals to output a joint signal; a mismatch detecting circuit, detecting the power of the joint signal to generate a detection result; a frequency-dependent mismatch compensator, compensating at least one of the first and second signals; and a control circuit, setting the gain and phase parameters and a parameter of the frequency-dependent mismatch compensator according to the detection result to compensate frequency-independent gain and phase mismatch and a frequency-dependent mismatch response.

MISMATCH COMPENSATING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND MISMATCH DETECTING DEVICE
20170005737 · 2017-01-05 ·

A mismatch compensating device includes: a signal generator, synchronously outputting first and second signal; a gain and phase compensator, processing the first and second signals according to a gain parameter and a phase parameter to generate compensated first and second signals; a DAC, performing a digital-to-analog conversion on the compensated first and second signals to generate first and second analog signals; an analog front-end circuit, processing the first and second analog signals to output a joint signal; a mismatch detecting circuit, detecting the power of the joint signal to generate a detection result; a frequency-dependent mismatch compensator, compensating at least one of the first and second signals; and a control circuit, setting the gain and phase parameters and a parameter of the frequency-dependent mismatch compensator according to the detection result to compensate frequency-independent gain and phase mismatch and a frequency-dependent mismatch response.

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.