A radio frequency (RF) receiver includes a transceiver, a programmable logic device (PLD), and a digitally tunable high-pass and low-pass filter bank. The transceiver is configured to receive a mission data file (MDF) specifying a plurality of RF frequencies to be tuned by the receiver and to convert the MDF into a binary file. The PLD is configured to receive the binary file from the transceiver and, based on the binary file, to transmit one or more commands that cause the filter bank to enter a selected one of a plurality of predefined filter states corresponding to one or more of the RF frequencies. In operation, the receiver receives an input signal and the filter bank dynamically filters the input signal in response to the one or more commands from the PLD.

Disclosed is a filter bank module having a substrate, an antenna port terminal, and a filter bank die. The filter bank die is fixed to the substrate and includes a first acoustic wave (AW) filter having a first antenna terminal coupled to the antenna port terminal and a first filter terminal, and a second AW filter having a second filter terminal, and a second antenna terminal coupled to the first antenna terminal to effectively diplex signals that pass through the first AW filter and the second AW filter.

A transceiver having a transceiver including a down-converter for converting a radio-frequency (RF) input signal to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal with an analog low latency bypass path coupled to the IF signal and configured to provide a low latency IF signal. There is a digital path coupled to the IF signal and configured to provide a digitally processed IF signal, and an up-converter for converting at least one of the low latency IF signal and the digitally processed IF signal to an RF output signal. In a further example, the down-converter and the up-converter convert to millimeter wave frequencies and filters the millimeter wave frequencies with cavity filters comprising quartz.

One embodiment can provide a method and a system for performing multiple radio frequency allocation. During operation, the system including a controller can receive, a Wi-Fi channel allocation and a filter bank configuration associated with a Wi-Fi radio transceiver. The system can determine one or more Internet of things (IoT) radio transceivers operating with the Wi-Fi radio transceiver. For a respective IoT radio transceiver, the system can perform the following operations: determining a set of scores based on a set of constraints associated with an application type for the IoT radio transceiver; and computing a weighted average score based on the set of scores; and determining a channel allocation for the IoT radio transceiver based on the weighted average score and the Wi-Fi channel allocation.

This application provides an antenna system and a base station. The antenna system includes a radiation array, a transceiver (TRX) unit, and a filter bank. The radiation array includes a transmit antenna element group and a receive antenna element group that are separately disposed. The transmit antenna element group is configured to transmit a signal, and the receive antenna element group is configured to receive a signal. The TRX unit includes a transmit module and a receive module. The filter bank includes a first-type filter and a second-type filter. The first-type filter is connected between the transmit antenna element group and the transmit module, and the second-type filter is connected between the receive antenna element group and the receive module. The antenna system in this application can reduce interference between a passive intermodulation (PIM) signal generated by a transmitted signal and a received signal.

Disclosed is a frequency selective limiter with a switched multiplexer filter bank having a plurality of filters coupled between antenna and receiver ports, wherein the switched multiplexer filter bank is configured to enable and disable selected ones of the plurality of filters in response to control signals. First detector circuitry is coupled to the antenna port and configured to detect signal voltage at the antenna port and generate a first detector voltage. Second detector circuitry is coupled to the receiver port and configured to detect signal voltage at the receiver port and generate a second detector voltage, and a digital controller is coupled between the first detector circuitry, the second detector circuitry, and a control interface, wherein the digital controller is configured to limit interfering signals by sending control signals to the switched multiplexer filter bank in response to the first detector voltage and the second detector voltage.

This closure relates to narrowband communication supporting an Internet of Things (IoT) service in a next-generation wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving narrowband synchronization signals. A base station transmits a narrowband secondary synchronization signal indicating a narrowband cell identity, a specific sequence generated by performing phase rotation with respect to a base sequence generated through a second Zadoff-Chu sequence having a predetermined length L in a frequency domain and multiplying the base sequence by a cover sequence in element units is used for the narrowband secondary synchronization signal, and a specific root index is selected from among M (M<L) root indices as a root index of the second Zadoff-Chu sequence and the specific root index is selected in a range from k to k+M−1 in terms of a predetermined offset k.

High-performance filter bank channelizers are provided. In one embodiment, a heterodyne signal shifts an input spectrum of the input signal by an offset between input and output centers, and operates at a high input sample rate. In another embodiment, the channelizer includes an input commutator receiving and commutating an input signal, an M-path polyphaser filter in communication with the commutator, and an M-path inverse discrete Fourier transform module processing outputs of the polyphaser filter, wherein the M-path polyphaser filter introduces a plurality of phase rotations in a time domain resulting in a workload reduction for a processor on which the channelizer is implemented. Still other embodiments includes a resampling channelizer, a half-band filter, and a cascaded half-band filter.

A transceiver having a down-converter for converting a radio-frequency (RF) input signal to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal with an analog low latency bypass path coupled to the IF signal and configured to provide a low latency IF signal and an up-converter for converting an IF signal to an RF signal. There is a digital path coupled to the IF signal and configured to provide a digitally processed IF signal, and an up-converter for converting at least one of the low latency IF signal and the digitally processed IF signal to an RF output signal. In a further example, the down-converter and the up-converter convert to millimeter wave frequencies and filters the millimeter wave frequencies with cavity filters.

Adaptive RF filters based on modulated resonators are provided. The filter architecture is based on time-interleaved commutation of passive RF resonators. The architecture can behave as a two-port filter network, with a fully tunable instantaneous filter bandwidth. The filters are applicable as miniaturized, environment-aware RF signal processing components and can be used in mobile communications.