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7616720 Multirate digital transceiver  
A multirate digital transceiver in which, on reception, signals are simultaneously decimated and coarsely down converted in an iterative process to narrow down a received wideband to a desired...
7616715 Method and system for estimating the speed of a mobile device in a network  
A method for estimating the speed of a mobile device in a network is provided that includes selecting a correlation length from a plurality of possible correlation lengths. A correlation result is...
7616707 Methods and apparatus for reducing a sampling rate during a sampling phase determination process  
A received signal is sampled at a sampling period of T+m*(T/n) during a sampling phase determination process. T is a symbol or chip period of the received signal, n is a number of phases of the...
7616706 Repetition coding in a satellite-based communications system  
A satellite communications system comprises a transmitter, a satellite transponder and a receiver. The transmitter transmits an uplink multi-level modulated signal (hierarchical modulation or...
7616705 Monolithic GPS RF front end integrated circuit  
A highly integrated GPS RF Front End, an interface thereto, and a GPS receiver that incorporates the GPS RF front end, which uses a single conversion stage employing an image rejection mixer stage...
7616682 Method and device for chronologically synchronizing a location network  
Chronologically synchronizing a unique positing signal generated by a positioning-unit device at a known location with a reference positioning signal generated by a reference transmitter at a known...
7616680 Method for processing data in a spread spectrum system  
A method for processing data in a spread spectrum system, including decimating a data rate of received spread spectrum data by a decimation factor to a decimated rate; storing the received spread...
7616676 Method and system for performing distance measuring and direction finding using ultrawide bandwidth transmissions  
An identification tag is provided in which radio frequency (RF) circuitry and ultrawide bandwidth (UWB) circuitry are both provided on the same tag, along with some UWB-RF interface circuitry. The...
7613400 Multi-level optical data communication circuit  
A driver circuit is coupled to an optical waveguide transmitter. The driver circuit has a current generator that is in series with the transmitter, and a current robbing circuit is coupled to the...
7613253 Noise balanced QAM detection  
A method of demodulating digital data using M'ary QAM has been disclosed, comprising the steps of detecting a complex symbol vector D, establishing within which reference symbol boundaries the...
7613252 Installation of digital data receivers  
The invention relates to the installation of a broadcast data receiver or similarly installable apparatus. The apparatus and method of the invention includes a means for taking measurements to...
7613248 Signal processing with channel eigenmode decomposition and channel inversion for MIMO systems  
Techniques for processing a data transmission at a transmitter and receiver, which use channel eigen-decomposition, channel inversion, and (optionally) “water-pouring”. At the transmitter, (1)...
7613243 Interleaver and parser for OFDM MIMO systems  
A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter that has a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the...
7610500 Link power saving state  
Disclosed are embodiments of a method, apparatus and system for a low power state for a point-to-point link. During the low power state, the signal on both conductors of a differential transmit...
7609788 Receiver apparatus using maximum-likelihood-determination  
A metric calculating unit calculates a metric based on a provisional determination of a transmission signal and a reception signal. A lattice-point-range setting/estimate-symbol generating unit...
7609772 Apparatus and method for optimally compensating for imbalance between in-phase and quadrature-phase in a zero-IF OFDM receiver  
An optimum I/Q imbalance compensating apparatus and method in a zero-IF OFDM receiver. In the apparatus, a first compensator generates a first symbol by removing interference from a second...
7606330 Dual-rate single band communication system  
A system, method, and apparatus for a multiple data rate communication system is presented herein. The communication system receives data samples that are either sampled at a narrowband rate or a...
7606329 Data receiver adaptively operable to received signal strength indication  
The modem has an RF section developing an RSSI signal and a baseband signal converted from a received signal. A reference voltage output section feeds a reference voltage to a comparator. The...
7606328 Common signal generation for an RF receiver  
A common signal generating sub-system (CSGS) for a radio frequency (RF) receiver. The CSGS includes a down converter section and a digitizer section. The down converter section receives...
7606327 Method to receive local information with a national broadcast service  
A receiver is disclosed. The receiver includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a system controller, a national broadcast demodulator, a local broadcast demodulator, and an information output...
7606318 Method of space-time encoding and decoding for frequency selective fading channel  
The invention discloses a space-time encoding and decoding method for a frequency selective fading channel, comprising: an encoder takes two independent data fields of a time slot in input data as...
7606288 Burst spread spectrum radio system and method for asset tracking and data telemetry  
A system for wireless asset tracking is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of mobile devices. Each mobile device performs two spreading operations with two distinct PN codes, a first PN...
7606139 Preamble detection using frequency based correlation  
A method for detecting a preamble location in a multiple preamble OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system is disclosed. An OFDM signal is generated with a plurality of frames, and...
7605737 Data encoding in a clocked data interface  
One embodiment of the present invention includes a data transmission system. The system comprises a data transmitter that provides a plurality of data bits over at least one data line. The data...
7602866 Signal receiver devices and methods  
A method/apparatus is provided that detects impairment in a received signal and employs the structure in the receiver that is designed for that purpose. Preferably, the method/apparatus detects the...
7602865 Apparatus and method for enhancing a reception rate of a receiver  
A system and method is disclosed for enhancing a reception rate for a mobile communication system. A system is provided comprising a demodulator for separating a received signal into an I signal...
7602863 Method and apparatus for providing iterative timing recovery  
A method includes the steps of receiving a signal indicative of data bits, and performing per survivor processing-iterative timing recovery (PSP-ITR) on the received signal to generate...
7602862 Mixing module and methods for use therewith  
A mixing module includes a plurality of switched sample modules operably for generating a corresponding plurality of samples of an analog input signal in response to a control signal. A control...
7602859 Calibrating integrating receivers for source synchronous protocol  
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to calibrate an integrating receiver. A delay calibration circuit calibrates an adjusting code of a chain of delay elements and positioning of...
7602856 Mixer for mixing a signal and method for mixing a signal  
A mixer for mixing a signal, present as a sequence of time-discrete values with a time interval between two time-discrete values defining a first sampling frequency from a current frequency to a...
7602853 Method and apparatus for channel estimation  
The invention relates to DVB-T system, and in particular, to a channel estimation method for OFDM symbols. A plurality of symbols are received to generate a pilot response. A finite impulse...
7602835 Multi-rate spread spectrum composite code  
A correlator despreads a P/N long code constructed from two or more constituent codes A, B, C having N, M and L elements respectively. In a third stage, L filter taps decorrelate elements of the...
7602696 Adaptive guard intervals in OFDM systems  
Dynamic guard interval adaptation is provided for devices having differing delay spreads in an OFDM communication system to reduce the guard intervals, with adaptation controlled by either the...
7599453 Doppler spread estimation for OFDM systems  
A Doppler spread value of a channel in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is estimated, wherein the channel comprises a plurality of carrier frequencies. Estimating...
7599422 Adjustable dual-band link  
A communication system utilizing an adjustable link has at least a first data transmission circuit including at least a first communication link circuit. The first communication link circuit has a...
7599333 Wireless messaging preambles allowing for beamforming and legacy device coexistence  
A modified preamble is used by extended devices that operate in mixed mode environments and green field environments, to accommodate beamforming of transmissions. In one process, an extended...
7599332 Modified preamble structure for IEEE 802.11a extensions to allow for coexistence and interoperability between 802.11a devices and higher data rate, MIMO or otherwise extended devices  
A modified preamble is used by extended devices that operate at higher rates, MIMO or other extensions relative to strict 802.11a-compliant devices. The extended devices might use multiple antenna...
7596190 System, method, and apparatus for correction of code doppler shift  
A method of signal reception according to one embodiment of the invention includes compensating for an estimated or measured Doppler shift during integration of a correlated signal. Such a method...
7596189 Quadrature receiver sampling architecture  
Quadrature receiver sampling architecture. A signal ADC performs analog to digital conversion for both I and Q streams. An analog MUX selects the appropriate I and the Q baseband analog input...
7596188 Digital interface decode receiver apparatus  
A power-down determination circuit calculates the horizontal frequency and vertical frequency, respectively, employing a clock signal obtained from a multiplier circuit and horizontal...
7596181 Apparatus and method for frequency synchronization in OFDM system  
A method and apparatus are provided for frequency synchronization in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system, wherein the method includes the steps of transmitting OFDM symbols...
7596175 Methods and circuits for performing margining tests in the presence of a decision feedback equalizer  
Described are methods and circuits for margin testing receivers equipped with Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE) or other forms of feedback that employ historical data to reduce intersymbol...
7593496 Phase interpolator  
A phase interpolator includes a first circuit to generate a first signal having a first phase delay and a second signal having a second phase delay and a phase mixer. The phase mixer is coupled to...
7593490 Joint synchronizer and decoder  
A joint synchronizer and decoder that implements two decision aided processes, which are referred to as “decision aided candidate selection” and “decision aided synchronization and...
7593486 Apparatus and method for controlling transmission mode in a MIMO mobile communication system  
An apparatus and method for controlling a transmission mode in a MIMO mobile communication system are provided. In a receiver in the MIMO mobile communication system, an error checker checks errors...
7593485 Wireless receiver for removing direct current offset component  
A wireless receiver includes a hardware (HW) block, a converter block and a digital signal processor (DSP). The HW block receives a wireless signal having a first DC Offset Component (DCOC),...
7593483 Nonlinear mapping in digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters  
In a high-fidelity digital modulator, a mapper is provided to minimize quantization noise, jitter, and cross-talk between multiple digital-to-analog or analog-to-digital converters. The mapper...
7593482 Wireless communication system with hardware-based frequency burst detection  
A wireless communication system is provided that includes RF circuitry and signal processing circuitry. The signal processing circuitry includes a dedicated frequency burst (FB) search hardware...
7593474 Digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system having an improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof  
A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a signal processing method thereof that can improve the receiving performance of the system. A digital broadcast transmitter has a randomizer...
7593458 FEXT determination system  
Operational data is utilized to determine the FEXT interference induced by one line into the other DSL line. FEXT interference can be calculated using the NEXT interference measured between the two...