Disclosed are a data transmission method and a data restoration method. The data transmission method forming a plurality of transmission preparatory packets by dividing data to be transmitted by a predetermined number (n) of bits, forming a plurality of transition inducing packets having the predetermined number (n) of bits, different from the transmission preparatory packets, and not complementary to the transmission preparatory packets, and forming transition included data packets by performing a logical operation on the transition inducing packets and the respective transmission preparatory packets, transmitting the transition included data packets and the different transition inducing packets, wherein the forming of the transition included data packets comprises: forming the transition included data packets by performing the logical operation on periodically repeated packet bundles and different transition inducing packets.

Generating, during a first and second signaling interval, an aggregated data signal by forming a linear combination of wire signals received in parallel from wires of a multi-wire bus, wherein at least some of the wire signals undergo a signal level transition during the first and second signaling interval; measuring a signal skew characteristic of the aggregated data signal; and, generating wire-specific skew offset metrics, each wire-specific skew offset metric based on the signal skew characteristic.

A coded light receiver comprising a sensor for receiving coded light, a filter, and a timing and data recovery module. The coded light comprises a signal whereby data and timing are modulated into the light according to a self-clocking coding scheme. The filter is arranged to match a template waveform of the coding scheme against the received signal, thereby generating a pattern of filtered waveforms each corresponding to a respective portion of the data, and the timing and data recovery module recovers the timing from the signal based on characteristic points of the filtered waveforms. The timing and data recovery module is configured to do this by separating the filtered waveforms into different sub-patterns in dependence on the data, and to recover the timing by processing each of the sub-patterns individually based on the characteristic points of each sub-pattern.

A method for processing, in a receiver device, a signal representative of a stream of data coded from a series of information units through coding using a predefined group of symbols to code each information unit of the series, comprises: —a step of receiving (E0) said signal, said signal having been sent by a sender device via a transmission channel, said received signal containing a sequence of symbols of predefined length, and —a step of combined equalization and decoding (E3) applied to said received signal (Ireceived), using a mesh (100) representing the transmission channel (3) and the coding that is used, the mesh (100) containing a number of nodes (101) representing states of the transmission channel (104), said states of the transmission channel (104) taking into account said coding that is used.

A signal generator 10 generates an OOK (on-off keying) modulation signal by mapping a CAZAC (constant amplitude zero auto-correlation) sequence to N subcarriers (N being an integer that is greater than or equal to 2) arranged at a determined interval among M subcarriers (M being an integer that is greater than or equal to 3) that are adjacent in the frequency domain, carrying out inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) processing on the mapped CAZAC sequence, and carrying out Manchester coding on a time domain signal generated by the IFFT processing. A radio transmitter 107 transmits the OOK modulation signal.

A Controller Area Network, CAN, bit stream sampling apparatus for a CAN controller, the apparatus configured to receive a bit stream from a CAN transceiver, the apparatus configured to: detect rising edges in said bit stream; detect, separately, falling edges in said bit stream; and generate a restored non-return-to-zero coded bit stream based at least on said detected falling edges and said detected rising edges.

The present invention is to reduce detection of an erroneous edge caused by variation in a case of a sampling frequency that is not larger than a data transmission frequency. A semiconductor device includes: a data reception circuit configured to receive first data at first time and receive second data at second time; and an edge recognition circuit configured to set a range and detect an edge contained in the range. The edge recognition circuit includes a measurement circuit configured to measure a first period taken from the reception of the first data to the reception of the second data, and is configured to determine the range in which the edge contained in the data that is received by the data reception circuit is detected, on the basis of the first period.

A method of transmitting a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) frame in a Very High Throughput (VHT) Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system includes generating a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) to be transmitted to a destination station (STA), generating a PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) by adding a PLCP header, including an L-SIG field containing control information for a legacy STA and a VHT-SIG field containing control information for a VHT STA, to the MPDU, and transmitting the PPDU to the destination STA. A constellation applied to some of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols of the VHT-SIG field is obtained by rotating a constellation applied to an OFDM symbol of the L-SIG field.

A power transmitter includes: a first switch coupled between a first node and a reference voltage node; a second switch configured to be coupled between a power supply and the first node; a coil and a capacitor coupled in series between the first node and the reference voltage node; a first sample-and-hold (S&H) circuit having an input coupled to the first node; and a timing control circuit configured to generate a first control signal, a second control signal, and a third control signal that have a same frequency, where the first control signal is configured to turn ON and OFF the first switch alternately, the second control signal is configured to turn ON and OFF the second switch alternately, and where the third control signal determines a sampling time of the first S&H circuit and has a first pre-determined delay from a first edge of the first control signal.

One aspect of the present invention includes a bi-phase communication receiver system. The system includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to sample a bi-phase modulation signal to generate digital samples of the bi-phase modulation signal. The system also includes a bi-phase signal decoder configured to decode the bi-phase modulation signal based on the digital samples. The system further includes a preamble detector comprising a digital filter configured to evaluate the digital samples to generate an output and to detect a preamble of the bi-phase modulation signal for decoding the bi-phase modulation signal based on the output.