Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for a wireless communication device capable of scanning for radar signals while detecting and/or receiving a wireless communication signal. The wireless communication device may include a plurality of local oscillator synthesizers to allow distinct frequency bands to be used for wireless communication signals and radar detection. In some embodiments, the wireless communication device may include a radar detection physical layer (PHY) circuit to detect the presence of radar signals within a received RF signal. The radar detection PHY may have limited functionality suitable primarily for radar signal analysis and not suitable for processing (decoding) communication signals.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to wireless or wired multiple-input multiple-output communication systems, in which a transmit symbol vector and a set of soft decision metrics are estimated using a reduced complexity maximum likelihood (ML) detection method based on a receive symbol vector and a QR decomposition of a set of permuted channel matrices. The QR decomposition can be performed by a series of CORDIC operations. Preferably, the modified receive vector and upper triangular matrix streams are scaled by a weighting vector to help compensate for transmit and receive side noise. Also preferably, the soft decision metric set related to the reliability of transmitted bits is normalized.