Abstract: A nonlinear equalizer for iteratively equalizing a data communication channel, which comprises a transmitter at the input of the channel, for transmitting data and one or more training sequences over the channel; a receiver at the output of the channel, for receiving the data and the one or more training sequences; a sampling circuit for sampling received data; a processor, for processing the samples. The processor is adapted to calculate the derivative of the MSE for each of the FFE taps; calculate the derivative of the variance of the enhanced noise with the FFE taps; iteratively update the FFE coefficients, while during each update, injecting samples of a known training sequence into the channel.

Abstract: Described is a cognitive signal processor for signal denoising and blind source separation. During operation, the cognitive signal processor receives a mixture signal that comprises a plurality of source signals. A denoised reservoir state signal is generated by mapping the mixture signal to a dynamic reservoir to perform signal denoising. At least one separated source signal is identified by adaptively filtering the denoised reservoir state signal.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described that facilitate transmission of data, particularly between two devices within an electronic apparatus. In particular, a preamble for transmission in a sequence of symbols over a multi-wire communications interface, such as a MIPI C-PHY interface, is constructed to include one or more symbols each having a single state transition symbols for signaling a particular calibration preamble from a transmitter to a receiver over the multi-wire communications interface. The preamble, having only single state transition symbols, improves reliability of decoding the symbols at a receiver, including reception and decoding without the use of a calibration clock.

Abstract: System, methods and apparatus are described that facilitate transmission of data, particularly between two devices within an electronic apparatus. Information is transmitted in N-phase polarity encoded symbols. Drivers may be adapted or configured to align state transitions on two or more connectors in order to minimize a transition period between consecutive symbols. The drivers may include circuits that advance or delay certain transitions. The drivers may include pre-emphasis circuits that operate to drive the state of a connector for a portion of the transition period, even when the connector is transitioned to an undriven state.

Abstract: An outphasing amplifier having: a first branch arranged to receive and process a first branch signal, the first branch signal being phase modulated, with constant amplitude envelope; and a second branch arranged to receive and process a second branch signal, the second branch signal being phase modulated, with constant amplitude envelope, and at least a portion of the second branch signal anti-phase from the first branch signal, wherein each branch includes: circuitry arranged to process the signal to reduce the energy in sidebands of the signal away from the central frequency, while retaining the phase information in the signal; and an amplifier arranged to amplify the filtered and re-asserted branch signal.

Abstract: A parametric generating method for a zero correlation zone sequence set, includes: determining a ZCZ sequence set to be generated; determining a limited symbol set; determining an initial non-periodic orthogonal complementary sequence set; constructing a discrete Fourier transformation matrix by using elements in the limited symbol set; constructing a coefficient matrix based on the number of sequences and the number of iterations in the sequence set; using the columns of the coefficient matrix respectively as the coefficients of each sequence in the ZCZ sequence set, iteratively generating ZCZ sequence sets by using a method of zero filling the tails of weighting coefficients; and traversing the coefficient matrix, and selecting a ZCZ sequence set meeting the criteria or an optimal ZCZ sequence set according to requirements.

Abstract: Systems and methods may receive data from a data interface of a base platform, convert the data into an analog signal and modulate the analog signal onto a direct current (DC) power line coupled to a connector of the base platform. Additionally, the modulated analog signal may be received from a DC power line coupled to a connector of a tablet platform, wherein the modulated analog signal is converted to a digital signal and demodulated to recover the data. In one example, the data includes user input data associated with an input device including one or more of a mouse, a keyboard, a keypad or a touchpad.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for constructing a physical transmission line system. Characteristic data associated with a transmission line system is received. A model of the transmission line system is built based on the characteristic data. Building a model of the transmission line system includes determining a characteristic admittance matrix based on the characteristic data, determining a propagation function matrix based on the characteristic data, calculating a linking matrix based on the characteristic admittance matrix and the propagation function matrix, and determining a state space model based on the characteristic admittance matrix and the linking matrix. A simulation is performed using the state space model to determine a physical characteristic, where the transmission line system is built or modified based on the simulation-determined physical characteristic.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method that includes calculating a first frequency drift associated with an oscillator at a current temperature; based on the calculation, generating a first signal indicative of temperature compensation data; generating a second signal indicative of packet data and a modulation scheme; using the first signal, the second signal, and a first predetermined signal to generate a first tuning signal; and using the first tuning signal to tune a first capacitor array coupled to the oscillator and a second tuning signal to tune a second capacitor array coupled to the oscillator such that (i) the oscillator generates a modulated RF signal indicative of the packet data and (ii) the modulated RF signal has a second frequency drift that is less than a threshold.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, wherein the signal frame includes at least one service data, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave each the service data, wherein the time deinterleaving is performed depending on a number of physical paths for each the service data, a damapper to demap the time deinterleaved data and a decoder to decode the demapped service data.

Abstract: A communication system includes at least one transmitting unit and at least one receiving unit. The at least one transmitting unit is configured to transmit at least one input signal after precoding it with at least one precoding matrix. The at least one receiving unit wirelessly coupled with the at least one transmitting unit is configured to receive the at least one precoded input signal, and generate at least one channel quality signal corresponding to the at least one precoded input signal, in which the at least one transmitting unit generates at least one magnitude information estimate or at least one phase information estimate or at least one of both for at least one channel state information according to the at least one channel quality signal, the at least one precoding matrix and at least one noise size signal.

Abstract: In a method for generating a data unit, it is determined whether the data unit is to be transmitted using single carrier (SC) modulation or orthogonal frequency division (OFDM) modulation. When it is determined that the data unit is to be transmitted using SC modulation, a header field of the data unit is generated using a first technique to indicate that the data unit conforms to a first protocol and/or whether the data unit conforms to a first PHY mode or a second PHY mode of the first protocol. When it is determined that the data unit is to be transmitted using OFDM modulation, the header field is generated using a second technique to indicate that the data unit conforms to the first protocol and/or whether the data unit conforms to the first PHY mode or the second PHY mode of the first protocol.

Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatus and methods using a first latch in a decision feedback equalizer (DFE), a second latch in the DFE, and circuity coupled to the first and second latches. The second latch includes a first input node coupled to an output node of the first latch. The circuitry includes a first input node coupled to the first output node, a second input node coupled to a second output node of the second latch, and an output node to provide information having a first output value based on first values of information at the first and second output nodes and a second output value based on second values of information at the first and second output nodes.

Abstract: A system and method for clock phase alignment at a plurality of line cards over a backplane of a communication system. Phase adjustments are continually made for the clock signals at the line cards by dynamically measuring the propagation delay between the timing device and each of the plurality of line cards and continuously communicating the appropriate phase adjustment to each of the plurality of line cards.

Abstract: A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes an information detector, a resampler, a timing recovery unit, and a carrier recovery unit. The information detector detects a known data sequence which is periodically inserted in a digital television (DTV) signal received from a DTV transmitting system. The resampler resamples the DTV signal at a predetermined resampling rate. The timing recovery unit performs timing recovery on the DTV signal by detecting a timing error from the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence. The carrier recovery unit performs carrier recovery on the resampled DTV signal by estimating a frequency offset value of the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence.

Abstract: A communication system is provided for a vehicle having multiple antennas and multiple transmitting and/or receiving interfaces. At least one first antenna is arranged in the interior of the vehicle, and at least one second antenna is arranged on the outside of the vehicle. The first antenna is designed to wirelessly establish at least one part of a data connection between a first communication unit which is located in the interior of the vehicle and at least one first network base unit which is located outside of the vehicle via a first transmitting and/or receiving interface. The second antenna is designed to wirelessly establish at least one part of a data connection between a second communication unit which is located in the interior of the vehicle and the first and/or a second network base unit which is located outside of the vehicle via a second transmitting and/or receiving interface.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data in a multiple-input-multiple-output space-time coded communication using a mapping table mapping a plurality of symbols defining the communication to respective antennae from amongst a plurality of transmission antennae and to at least one other transmission resource. The mapping table may comprise Alamouti-coded primary segments and may also comprise secondary segments, comprising primary segments. The primary segments in the secondary segments may be defined in accordance to an Alamouti based code pattern applied at the segment level to define a segment-level Alamouti based code.

Abstract: A modular PIM analyzer includes: a first signal amplification module provided with a first signal generator for generating a first frequency signal under control of a first MCU, and a first power amplifier for generating a first amplified frequency signal through the amplification of the first frequency signal under control of a first ALC circuit; a second signal amplification module provided with a second signal generator for generating a second frequency signal under control of a second MCU, and a second power amplifier for generating a second amplified frequency signal through the amplification of the second frequency signal under control of a second ALC circuit; and a triplexer module for extracting a test frequency signal using the first amplified frequency signal and the second amplified frequency signal, transmitting the test frequency signal to a device under test, and receiving a PIM signal being reflected from the device under test.

Abstract: An access point of a wireless communication network forms beams by applying a weightset for a beamforming weights matrix to signal streams. The Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) that is emitted from an array of antenna elements at the access point is controlled by calibrating the transmission phase and gain of a respective transmit chain for each antenna element, providing a polar radiation model for an antenna element of the array, and determining a weightset for the weighting matrix subject to a constraint that a maximum total EIRP for the beams in combination in any azimuth direction is maintained within a predetermined EIRP limit, based at least on a spatial separation of the antenna elements, the polar radiation model and the calibrated transmission phase and gain of each respective transmit chain.

Abstract: Disclosed is a signal transmitting circuit, a retiming unit is connected with an aggressor signal line to output a previous moment signal and a current moment signal, a control signal associated with the previous moment signal and the current moment signal is output to a crosstalk compensation circuit through a logic circuit, the crosstalk compensation circuit receives a signal from a victim signal line, so as to dynamically change delays corresponding to different transmission modes in combination with inputs of the victim signal line and the aggressor signal line.