Abstract: An energy efficient radio having a clocking system utilizing two clocks with very different precision and power characteristics. In another aspect, the time that a radio spends on listening/receiving is optimized so that energy is not wasted when there is no need to keep receiving. In another aspect, to further improve the energy efficiency, two receive portions with drastic difference in power consumption, instead of a single receive portion as is used in a typical wireless receiver, and are used to process different parts of a received packet.

Abstract: An energy efficient radio having a clocking system utilizing two clocks with very different precision and power characteristics. In another aspect, the time that a radio spends on listening/receiving is optimized so that energy is not wasted when there is no need to keep receiving. In another aspect, to further improve the energy efficiency, two receive portions with drastic difference in power consumption, instead of a single receive portion as is used in a typical wireless receiver, and are used to process different parts of a received packet.

Abstract: A system and method for obtaining the bearing angle of radio frequency is utilized in a direction finding system to determine the signal of interest. The system utilized an adaptive interferometric processor to null out modulation occurring due to commutation between the antenna elements. Through this system the bearing angle can be determined accurately and efficiently.

Abstract: A system for reducing co-channel interference includes a power spectrum analyzer which provides a spectral signal representative of an intermediate frequency signal from the receiver of a direction finding system. The system further includes threshold/window logic that, responsive to the comparison of threshold levels and spectral windows to the interfering signals, will provide stop and continue signals to an integrator. The integrator receives signals from the direction finding system and stops and starts integration of the output signal responsive to the threshold logic. In so doing, co-channel interference is substantially reduced.

Abstract: An antenna configuration system for determining the bearing angle of a radio frequency signal includes a plurality of loop antennas and at least one sense antenna. Through the utilization of combining networks with the loop antennas, in-phase and out-of-phase output signals are summed with the signal from the one sense antenna. The summed signal is sent to an adaptive processing system to allow for the determination the bearing angle of the radio frequency signal.