Methods and apparatuses are provided in which a signal is received at a receiver. A processor of the receiver computes frequency offset (FO) inter-carrier interference (ICI) compensation, based on a real matrix part of an approximate ICI matrix and an FO estimated from the received signal. The processor applies the FO ICI compensation to the received signal in a frequency domain to produce an ICI compensated output. The processor applies a phase rotation to the ICI compensated output.

Generally, in accordance with the various illustrative embodiments disclosed herein, an RF receiver can include an error correction system that executes a signal processing procedure upon a multi-tone digital I-signal and a multi-tone digital Q-signal to derive a wideband correction matrix. The wideband correction matrix can be used to correct one or more of: an amplitude error in any one or more frequency components of an RF input signal provided to the RF receiver, a phase error in any one or more frequency components of the RF input signal, a gain mismatch error between an analog I-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver and an analog Q-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver, or a phase mismatch error between the analog I-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver and the analog Q-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for EM communications. One of the apparatus includes a super-regenerative amplifier (SRA) configured to receive a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulated signal and to output an amplitude signal as a function of changes in phase in the BPSK modulated signal; a pseudo synchronous demodulator that rectifies the amplitude signal and generates an envelope of the rectified amplitude signal; and an analog to digital converter that converts the amplitude values of the envelope to digital binary values.

A BPSK demodulator circuit comprises: a sideband-separating and lower sideband signal-delaying unit which separates a modulated signal into a lower sideband and an upper sideband by a primary low pass filter and a primary high pass filter having a cut-off frequency as a carrier frequency, and which outputs an upper sideband analog signal and an analog signal delayed by of a cycle of the carrier frequency from a lower sideband analog signal; a data demodulating unit which demodulates digital data by means of latching, through a hysteresis circuit, an analog pulse signal appearing in accordance with the phase change part of a signal generated by the sum of the analog signals; and a data clock restoring unit which generates a data clock by using a data signal and a signal having the delayed lower sideband analog signal digitized through a comparator.

The present invention relates to a device and a method for detecting a transmission signal in a wireless communication system, and a reception device in a wireless communication system comprises: a transceiver for receiving a signal from a transmitting end; a first correlator for performing a first correlation and outputting a real part among the results of the first correlation; a second correlator for performing a second correlation and outputting an imaginary part among the results of the second correlation; and a control unit for controlling the first correlator and the second correlator on the basis of a channel change rate so as to detect a transmission signal.

A signal detection method that allows characterization of a modulated signal to be efficiently determined. The method comprises the steps of receiving a data signal, processing the data signal to determine its value squaring the value of the signal; filtering the squared signal value to remove DC content; evaluating the resulting signal to determine if a single sinusoidal value remains; and determining that the presence of a single sinusoidal value as the resulting signal from the squaring and filtering steps indicates that the received data signal is a phase-shift key signal or conversely that the absence of such after a given number of cycle of squaring and filtering indicates a different modulation technique is present in the signal.

A base station apparatus of mobile communication system is provided, including an antenna system including first antenna for transceiving signals for a first path among MIMO paths, and a second antenna for transceiving signals for a second path among the MIMO paths, a first duplexer including transmission filter for processing the transmitted signal of first path and reception filter for processing the received signal of second path, a second duplexer including reception filter for processing the received signal of first path and transmission filter for processing the transmitted signal of second path, and a path change unit for providing the transmitted signal provided from the first duplexer to the first antenna and the received signal provided from the first antenna to the second duplexer and to provide the transmitted signal from the second duplexer to the second antenna and the received signal from the second antenna to the first duplexer.

A base station apparatus of mobile communication system is provided, including an antenna system including first antenna for transceiving signals for a first path among MIMO paths, and a second antenna for transceiving signals for a second path among the MIMO paths, a first duplexer including transmission filter for processing the transmitted signal of first path and reception filter for processing the received signal of second path, a second duplexer including reception filter for processing the received signal of first path and transmission filter for processing the transmitted signal of second path, and a path change unit for providing the transmitted signal provided from the first duplexer to the first antenna and the received signal provided from the first antenna to the second duplexer and to provide the transmitted signal from the second duplexer to the second antenna and the received signal from the second antenna to the first duplexer.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for EM communications. One of the apparatus includes a super-regenerative amplifier (SRA) configured to receive a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulated signal and to output an amplitude signal as a function of changes in phase in the BPSK modulated signal; a pseudo synchronous demodulator that rectifies the amplitude signal and generates an envelope of the rectified amplitude signal; and an analog to digital converter that converts the amplitude values of the envelope to digital binary values.

Methods and systems are provided for converting wideband analog radio frequency (RF) signals. In an implementation, a first wideband analog RF signal may be received and handled. The first wideband analog RF signal comprises one or more first narrowband analog RF signals, with a total of bandwidths of the one or more first narrowband analog RF signals is less than a total bandwidth of the first wideband analog RF signal. Handling the first wideband analog RF signal may including selecting a first subset of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) from a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), with the number of ADCs in the first subset of ADCs being less than a total number of ADCs in the plurality of ADCs, and only the first subset of ADCs may be enabled. Only the one or more first narrowband analog RF signals may be analog-to-digital converted via the first subset of ADCs.