Patent classifications
H04L7/0332
Phase difference detectors and devices for detecting phase difference between oscillation signals
A device for wireless communication using a plurality of antennas including a first local oscillation generator configured to generate a first local oscillation signal for up-converting a first transmission signal, a second local oscillation generator configured to generate a second local oscillation signal for up-converting a second transmission signal, and a phase difference detector configured to, detect a first phase difference between the first local oscillation signal and the second local oscillation signal, and generate a first phase compensation signal based on the first phase difference for adjusting a phase of at least one of the first transmission signal or the second transmission signal.
LOW POWER EDGE AND DATA SAMPLING
An integrated circuit receiver is disclosed comprising a data receiving circuit responsive to a timing signal to detect a data signal and an edge receiving circuit responsive to the timing signal to detect a transition of the data signal. One of the data or edge receiving circuits comprises an integrating receiver circuit while the other of the data or edge sampling circuits comprises a sampling receiver circuit.
PHASE DIFFERENCE DETECTORS AND DEVICES FOR DETECTING PHASE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OSCILLATION SIGNALS
A device for wireless communication using a plurality of antennas including a first local oscillation generator configured to generate a first local oscillation signal for up-converting a first transmission signal, a second local oscillation generator configured to generate a second local oscillation signal for up-converting a second transmission signal, and a phase difference detector configured to, detect a first phase difference between the first local oscillation signal and the second local oscillation signal, and generate a first phase compensation signal based on the first phase difference for adjusting a phase of at least one of the first transmission signal or the second transmission signal.
Clock data recovery
A circuit includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and a frequency divider. The frequency divider input is coupled to the VCO output. The circuit further includes a phase-frequency detector (PFD). A control output of the PFD is coupled to the VCO. A first PFD input is coupled to a first frequency divider output, and a second PFD input is coupled to a second frequency divider output. The first frequency divider output is configured to provide a first frequency divider signal and the second frequency divider output is configured to provide a second frequency divider signal 90 degrees out of phase with respect to the first frequency divider signal. The PFD is configured to detect an occurrence of at least two edges of a signal on the data input while the second frequency divider signal is continuously logic high across the at least two edges.
Duty cycle estimation
A duty cycle measuring circuit, the circuit comprising a synchronizer and a measurer, the synchronizer arranged such that when a signal to be measured comprising pulses having a pulse width and a pulse period is input to the synchronizer, synchronizing signals corresponding to each of pulse rising edge, pulse falling edge, pulse period start and pulse period end are output from the synchronizer, each synchronizing signal comprising a rising or falling edge, wherein the synchronizing signal outputs from the synchronizer are input to the measurer, and wherein the measurer is arranged to provide two measurement outputs based on the synchronizing signal inputs from the synchronizer, the measurement outputs comprising a first measurement output signal indicative of a pulse period measurement of the signal to be measured and a second measurement output signal indicative of a pulse width measurement of the signal to be measured.
Low power edge and data sampling
An integrated circuit receiver is disclosed comprising a data receiving circuit responsive to a timing signal to detect a data signal and an edge receiving circuit responsive to the timing signal to detect a transition of the data signal. One of the data or edge receiving circuits comprises an integrating receiver circuit while the other of the data or edge sampling circuits comprises a sampling receiver circuit.
Duty Cycle Estimation
A duty cycle measuring circuit, the circuit comprising a synchronizer and a measurer, the synchronizer arranged such that when a signal to be measured comprising pulses having a pulse width and a pulse period is input to the synchronizer, synchronizing signals corresponding to each of pulse rising edge, pulse falling edge, pulse period start and pulse period end are output from the synchronizer, each synchronizing signal comprising a rising or falling edge, wherein the synchronizing signal outputs from the synchronizer are input to the measurer, and wherein the measurer is arranged to provide two measurement outputs based on the synchronizing signal inputs from the synchronizer, the measurement outputs comprising a first measurement output signal indicative of a pulse period measurement of the signal to be measured and a second measurement output signal indicative of a pulse width measurement of the signal to be measured.
Jitter sensing and adaptive control of parameters of clock and data recovery circuits
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided systems and methods for jitter sensing and adaptive control of parameters of clock and data recovery (CDR) circuits. A receiver component includes an adaptive CDR loop dynamic control circuit. The adaptive CDR loop dynamic control circuit is to detect first sinusoidal jitter at a first frequency and a first amplitude and update parameters of the CDR circuit to a first plurality of values based on the first frequency and the first amplitude. The adaptive CDR loop dynamic control circuit is further to detect second sinusoidal jitter at a second frequency and a second amplitude and update the parameters of the CDR circuit to a second plurality of values based on the second frequency and the second amplitude. The first sinusoidal jitter is in a first incoming data signal and the second sinusoidal jitter is in a second incoming data signal.
Iterative recovery from baseline or timing disturbances
In certain embodiments, a method may include receiving one or more equalized samples of an input signal. The method may further include mitigating one or more excursions in the one or more equalized samples based on one or more current decisions of an iterative decoding process to generate compensated equalized samples. In addition, the method may include performing iterative decoding operations based on the compensated equalized samples, updating the current decisions of the iterative decoding process and outputting the current decisions as a converged result when the iterative decoding operations have converged for the compensated equalized samples.
Clock data recovery device
Disclosed is a clock data recovery (CDR) device including a master lane circuit and a plurality of slave lane circuits. The master lane circuit includes: a clock multiplication unit including a phase frequency detector (PFD), a charge pump (CP), a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and a loop divider; a master lane sampling circuit; a master lane phase detector (PD); and a master lane multiplexer coupled between the master lane PD and the CP and between the PFD and the CP. Each slave lane circuit includes: a slave lane sampling circuit (SLS); a slave lane PD; a slave lane digital loop filter; a phase rotator (PR); and a slave lane multiplexer coupled between the VCO and the SLS and between the PR and the SLS, in which the master lane multiplexer and the slave lane multiplexers are configured to have the CDR device operate in one of multiple modes.