H03D1/04

Systems and methods for detecting local oscillator leakage and image tone in I/Q mixer based transceivers

According to one embodiment, a transceiver includes: a radio transmitter including a power amplifier; a detector circuit including: a squaring circuit configured to receive an output of the power amplifier of the radio transmitter and configured to produce an output current; and a DC current absorber electrically connected to an output terminal of the squaring circuit.

Apparatus and method for selecting cell in wireless communication system

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An apparatus of a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus includes at least one transceiver and at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one transceiver. The at least one processor is configured to control the transceiver to communicate through a cell determined based on information regarding a strength of a received signal for a first cell and a path diversity (PD) for the first cell. The PD comprises information regarding paths associated with the first cell.

Passive mixer with reduced second order intermodulation

The present disclosure generally relates to the field of receiver structures in radio communication systems and more specifically to passive mixers in the receiver structure and to a technique for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency. A passive mixer for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency comprises a cancellation component 220 for generating a first cancellation signal for cancelling second order intermodulation components by superimposing the first signal weighted by a cancellation value on the third signal; and a mixing component 231 having a first terminal 232 for receiving the first signal, a second terminal 234 for outputting the second signal, and a third terminal 236 for receiving the first cancellation signal, wherein the mixing component 231 is adapted to provide the second signal as output at the second terminal 234 by mixing the first signal provided as input at the first terminal 232 and the first cancellation signal provided as input at the third terminal 236.

Passive mixer with reduced second order intermodulation

The present disclosure generally relates to the field of receiver structures in radio communication systems and more specifically to passive mixers in the receiver structure and to a technique for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency. A passive mixer for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency comprises a cancellation component 220 for generating a first cancellation signal for cancelling second order intermodulation components by superimposing the first signal weighted by a cancellation value on the third signal; and a mixing component 231 having a first terminal 232 for receiving the first signal, a second terminal 234 for outputting the second signal, and a third terminal 236 for receiving the first cancellation signal, wherein the mixing component 231 is adapted to provide the second signal as output at the second terminal 234 by mixing the first signal provided as input at the first terminal 232 and the first cancellation signal provided as input at the third terminal 236.

Multi-channel array distortion compensation apparatus and method

The present invention provides a multi-channel array distortion compensation apparatus and method. The apparatus determines, according to a status of a first indication signal, whether to trigger a signal compensation operation; determines, according to a status of a second indication signal, a first adjustment condition is met, compares power of a received signal with a power threshold, and if the power of the received signal is greater than the threshold power, compensates the received signal according to a first adjustment factor; and if the status of the second indication signal does not meet the first adjustment condition, determines the status of the second indication signal meets a second adjustment condition, performs auxiliary compensation according to a second adjustment factor. By compensating signal distortion caused by chip stacking for a received signal, this reduces costs for implementing a multi-channel array system without the need to increase system complexity.

Electronic device
09819371 · 2017-11-14 · ·

An electronic device includes a transceiver connected to a differential signal transmission line for transmitting a differential signal through a pair of signal lines to communicate with one or a plurality of other devices connected to the differential signal transmission line. The electronic device includes: a suppression circuit that is operated by a power source voltage to suppress waveform distortion in the differential signal transmitted through the differential signal transmission line; and a power source controller that controls supply or cutoff of the power source voltage to the suppression circuit in response to a change in a differential voltage between the pair of signal lines.

Systems and methods for detecting local oscillator leakage and image tone in I/Q mixer based transceivers

A detector circuit includes: a squaring circuit configured to receive an output of a power amplifier of a radio transmitter and to produce an output current, the output of the power amplifier including: a desired tone; a local oscillator leakage tone; and an image tone, and the output current of the squaring circuit including: a direct current (DC) component including a function of the desired tone and an alternating current (AC) component; and a DC current absorber electrically connected to an output terminal of the squaring circuit, the DC current absorber being configured to filter out the DC component of the output current of the squaring circuit to produce a filtered output of the squaring circuit, the filtered output including the AC component including functions of the local oscillator leakage tone and the image tone.

Waveform construction using interpolation of data points

A method of constructing a waveform from N sampled data captured at N successive points in time, includes, in part, applying the N sampled data, K data at a time, to each of M delayed replicas of a filter that includes K taps so to generate N×M interpolated data. The waveform is then constructed from the N sampled data and the N×M interpolated data.

Technologies for dynamic wireless noise mitigation using artificial intelligence

Technologies for dynamic wireless noise mitigation include a computing device having a wireless modem and one or more antennas. The computing device activates one or more components of the computing device, monitors platform activity, and measures wireless noise received by the antennas. The computing device trains a noise prediction model based on the platform activity and the measured noise. The computing device may monitor platform activity and predict a noise prediction with the noise prediction model based on the monitored activity. The computing device may mitigate wireless noise received by the wireless antennas based on the noise prediction. The computing device may provide the noise prediction to the wireless modem. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Processing amplitude modulation signals with noise estimation

In one example, a communications circuit processes an amplitude modulated signal by using a first circuit having signal paths to process an amplitude modulated signal as represented by an in-phase component and by a quadrature component, and by using a second circuit to discern random noise pulses from the quadrature component of the amplitude modulated signal. In response, the second circuit generates an estimate of overall noise representing the random noise pulses in the amplitude modulated signal. In the above and more specific examples, the random noise pulses may appear as pulses which overlap with, in terms of time and bandwidth of frequency spectrum, information of the amplitude modulated signal, and the first and second circuits may be part of an RF radio receiving the amplitude modulated signal from an antenna.