A spread spectrum switching converter converts an input power to an output power. The spread spectrum switching converter includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) circuit and a pulse omission control circuit. The PWM circuit generate an initial PWM signal according to a feedback signal related to the output power. The initial PWM signal controls at least one switch to switch an inductor to generate the output power. The pulse omission control circuit generates a pulse omission control signal to mask a portion of pulses of the initial PWM signal, to thereby generate an adjusted PWM signal. The pulse omission control circuit randomly adjusts the pulse width of the pulse omission control signal according to a random control signal, such that the adjusted PWM signal has a spread spectrum characteristic.

A transmitter in a wireless communication network comprises a Carrier Interferometry (CI) coder and a multicarrier modulator communicatively coupled to the CI coder. The CI coder encodes a plurality of data symbols with a plurality of CI codes to produce a plurality of CI symbol values, wherein each of the plurality of CI symbol values equals a sum of information-modulated CI code chips. Each information-modulated CI code chip equals a CI code chip multiplied by one of the plurality of data symbols. The modulator modulates each CI symbol value onto a different subcarrier frequency to produce a multicarrier signal.

Disclosed is a device for generating a transmission pulse, configured to: obtain information about a transmission pulse, wherein the information comprises a pulse shape; generate a plurality of kernel pulses on the basis of the pulse shape; form a transmission pulse based on the plurality of kernel pulses.

An ultra-wideband pulse generator, for radio communication at frequencies of 2 to 11 GHz comprises an oscillator providing an output signal at carrier frequency F0 followed by a radiofrequency switching transistor and a control circuit controlling the gate of the transistor to turn it on for duration T corresponding to the desired duration of a UWB pulse. The control circuit is arranged to successively apply, during the same UWB pulse, a first gate voltage turning the transistor on with first internal resistance value for a first part of duration T, a second gate voltage that turns the transistor on with second internal resistance value, different from the first, for a second part of duration T. These internal resistances cause the oscillation to be attenuated differently for duration T of the pulse, allowing the spectrum of the pulse to maintain it within the spectral templates imposed by the radio communication standards.

An apparatus for communication in a wireless communication network comprises a coder that encodes a set of data symbols to produce a set of coded symbols; a modulator that modulates the coded symbols onto a set of subcarrier frequencies to generate a time-domain signal comprising a sum of a set of modulated pulse waveforms; and a transmitter configured for transmitting the time-domain signal in the wireless communication network. The coder employs a matrix of spreading codes, wherein each column of the matrix multiplies a different one of the data symbols, which causes the modulator to produce a corresponding one of the set of modulated pulse waveforms. Each column of the matrix of spreading codes comprises a set of linearly increasing phases, which provides a time offset to the corresponding modulated pulse waveforms.

An impulse radio (IR) ultra-wide band (UWB) transceiver adapted for a rake receiver is provided herein. This may be implemented as follows: on the transmitter side, the input data is converted to N-parallel streams having different delays, each stream is transmitted by an impulse radio signal with defined different carrier frequency. On the receiver side, the multicarrier RF signal is converted into base band signal, emulating multipath channels, so that rake receiver technique is used for an optimal demodulation of the received signal.

An ultra-wideband (“UWB”) communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the symbol mapper circuit in the transmitter is adapted, in a first mode, to develop symbols having the number of pulses as currently defined in the 4z Standard; and, in a second mode, to develop symbols having fewer pulses than as currently defined in the 4z Standard. In an optional third mode, each data bit is mapped to a single pulse.

An impulse wireless communication system includes an oscillation signal generator that generates a plurality of oscillation signals having a delay interval with each other and having the same phase and amplitude or different phases and amplitudes, an envelope signal generator that extracts a sync signal and a data signal making up communication signal data and generates an envelope signal for the sync signal and an envelope signal for the data signal, a signal synthesizer that synthesizes the plurality of oscillation signals with the envelope signals, an envelope signal extractor that extracts a plurality of modulation envelope signals from the impulse signal, an amplitude phase determiner that determines the phase and the amplitude in the plurality of modulation envelope signals based on the plurality of oscillation signals, and a calculator that extracts the envelope signals from the plurality of modulation envelope signals based on the phase and the amplitude.

A transmitter in a wireless communication network comprises a Carrier Interferometry (CI) coder and a multicarrier modulator communicatively coupled to the CI coder. The CI coder encodes a plurality of data symbols with a plurality of CI codes to produce a plurality of CI symbol values, wherein each of the plurality of CI symbol values equals a sum of information-modulated CI code chips. Each information-modulated CI code chip equals a CI code chip multiplied by one of the plurality of data symbols. The modulator modulates each CI symbol value onto a different subcarrier frequency to produce a multicarrier signal.

A method for receiving an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal transmitted by a user device in a wireless network comprises determining which subcarrier frequencies are allocated to the user device; converting the OFDM signal to a frequency-domain values corresponding to the subcarrier frequencies; and decoding the frequency-domain values to recover data symbols encoded by the user device on the subcarrier frequencies. The decoding employs codes that are inverse to, complex-conjugate of, or complementary to a set of complex-valued codes employed by the user device to shape the OFDM signal into a superposition of cyclic-shifted pulse waveforms, wherein each of the pulse waveforms has one of the data symbols modulated thereon.