Embodiments are described of devices and methods for processing a signal using a plurality of vector signal generators (VSGs). A digital signal may be provided to a plurality of signal paths, each of which may process a respective frequency band of the signal, the respective frequency bands having regions of overlap. The gain and phase of each signal path may be adjusted such that continuity of phase and magnitude are preserved through the regions of overlap. The adjustment of gain and phase may be accomplished by a complex multiply with a complex calibration constant. The calibration constant may be determined for each signal path by comparing the gain and phase of one or more calibration tones generated within each region of overlap. Each signal path may comprise a VSG to convert the respective signal to an analog signal, which may be combined to obtain a composite signal.

A system comprises an antenna, a port converting device, an information transmission device, a shield case, and a reference voltage end; wherein the antenna, the port converting device, and the information transmission device are connected sequentially, and the information transmission device is disposed within the shield case, and both the shield case and the port converting device is connected with the reference voltage end; the antenna is configured for a conversion between a radio frequency signal and a single-ended signal; the port converting device is configured for a conversion between the single-ended signal and target differential mode signals; the information transmission device is configured to transmit and process the target differential mode signals; and parameters of components in the port converting device is determined according to a preset communication frequency and a voltage amplitude and phase of a differential mode signal.

A heterogeneous method of a Wi-Fi Internet of things (IoT) that includes arranging at least one Wi-Fi IoT bridging device in a Wi-Fi IoT, the Wi-Fi IoT bridging device using a time division technique and communicating with at least one distant IoT device in a reduced data rate mode; and a heterogeneous IoT framework that includes a wireless router connecting to an IoT and supporting a standard Wi-Fi link, bridging device connecting to the wireless router via the standard Wi-Fi link, and a Wi-Fi device in a reduced data rate mode connecting to the bridging device via the reduced data rate mode, thereby realizing bridging and swapping of data in a heterogeneous Wi-Fi IoT structure consisting of Wi-Fi IoT subnets having different baseband rates.

Radio-frequency (RF) receivers having bandpass sigma-delta analog sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADC) designed to digitize signals in the RF domain are described. Such bandpass ADCs utilize one or more of the following techniques to enhance noise immunity and reduce power consumption: generation of in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) paths in the digital domain, n.sup.th order resonant bandpass filtering with n>1, and signal sub-sampling in an i.sup.th Nyquist zone with i>1. Compared to RF receivers in which the I and Q paths are generated in the analog domain, these RF receivers exhibit higher IRRs because they are not susceptible to in-phase/quadrature (IQ) mismatch. Using n.sup.th order resonant bandpass filtering with n>1 attenuates unwanted image tones. The bandpass ADC-based RF receivers described herein exhibit enhanced immunity to noise, achieving for example image rejection ratios (IRR) in excess of 95 dB.

A communication system provides reliable wideband communications with reduced power consumption in a user equipment (UE) receiver. A UE may include receiver circuitry to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a wireless network and output an analog baseband signal. The RF signal includes M copies of a duplicated signal in a frequency domain. The analog baseband signal includes the M copies of the duplicated signal uniformly offset from one another in the frequency domain by a bandwidth F and including a gap between adjacent copies. The UE further includes an anti-aliasing analog filter an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC samples an output of the anti-aliasing analog filter at a sampling frequency selected to obtain a digital baseband signal comprising a combined digital copy of the M copies of the duplicated signal folded over each other.

A communication system using adaptive sample rate reduction (ASRR) is disclosed. The system includes a digital front end (DFE) and a radio frequency (RF) interface. The DFE is configured to receive a baseband signal, identify reduced performance parameters for the baseband signal, reduce a sampling rate for the baseband signal based on the reduced performance parameters and generate a digital interface signal using the reduced sampling rate. The RF interface is configured to generate an analog TX signal from the digital interface signal.

An array-based Compressed sensing Receiver Architecture (ACRA) includes an antenna array with two or more antennas connected to two or more ADCs that are clocked at two or more different sampling rates below the Nyquist rate of the incident signals. Comparison of the individual aliased outputs of the ADCs allows for estimation of signal component characteristics, including signal bandwidth, center frequency, and direction-of-arrival (DoA). Multiple digital signal processing (DSP) techniques, such as sparse fast Fourier transform (sFFT), can be employed depending on the type of detection or estimation.

An Interleaved Radio Frequency Digital-to-Analog Converter (RF DAC) suitable for use in cellular base stations and optimized to give both a wide RF tuning range and a wide RF bandwidth is disclosed. The RF DAC uses two levels of interleaving, the first providing a direct conversion path from Base Band (BB) to RF, and the second providing a variable interleaving factor through the use of summation to optimize the output bandwidth as a function of the RF center frequency. Digital Interpolation, including an arbitrary sample rate conversion filter, allows the RF DAC to operate from a wide range of possible BB sample rates and the DAC sample rate is a fixed ratio of the RF center frequency. As a result, the spurious outputs from the RF DAC are in known locations that are relatively easy to filter out, minimizing the frequency planning tasks required for a complete RF system design.

A high efficiency secondary signal combiner may include a frequency division multiplexer that is configured to receive two or more signals and produce a combined signal. The combined signal may include the two or more signals, and each of the two or more signals may be in different Nyquist zones. The combiner may also include a wideband analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that is configured to frequency shift the combined signal by sub-sampling the two or more signals to produce a sub-sampled signal in a Nyquist zone that is different from the Nyquist zones of the two or more signals.

A method and terminal device for executing a radio application is disclosed. The method for executing a radio application is a method for executing a radio application independent of a modem in a terminal device, comprising the steps of: communicating with each other using a reconfigurable radio frequency interface (RRFI) by a unified radio application (URA), which operates on a radio computer of the terminal device, and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, which operates in a radio platform on the radio computer; and supporting, by the RRFI, at least one service among a spectrum control service, a power control service, an antenna management service, a transmission/reception chain control service, and a radio virtual machine protection service.