Abstract: Apparatuses (including user equipment (UE) and modern chips for UEs), systems, and methods for UE downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) buffer memory management are described. In one method, the entire UE DL HARQ buffer memory space is pre-partitioned according to the number and capacities of the UE's active carrier components. In another method, the UE DL HARQ buffer is split between on-chip and off-chip memory so that each partition and sub-partition is allocated between the on-chip and off-chip memories in accordance with an optimum ratio.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a blender and a display quality enhancer. The blender is configured to receive a plurality of layer data, generate first image data by blending the plurality of layer data, the first image data including a plurality of pixel values corresponding to a screen in a display device, and generate pixel map data including a plurality of pixel identifications (IDs) based on the plurality of layer data, the plurality of layer data representing a plurality of images to be displayed on the screen, the plurality of pixel IDs indicating display quality enhancement algorithms to be applied to the plurality of pixel values. The display quality enhancer is configured to generate second image data including a plurality of display quality enhancement pixel values by applying the display quality enhancement algorithms to the plurality of pixel values based on the first image data and the pixel map data.

Abstract: An neural network (NN) processor includes an input feature map buffer configured to store an input feature matrix, a weight buffer configured to store a weight matrix trained in a form of a, a transform circuit configured to perform a Walsh-Hadamard transform on an input feature vector obtained from the input feature matrix and a weight vector included in the weight matrix to output a transformed input feature vector and a transformed weight vector, and an arithmetic circuit configured to perform an element-wise multiplication (EWM) on the transformed input feature vector and the transformed weight vector.

Abstract: A method and system are provided. The method includes performing channel estimation on a reference signal (RS), compressing, with a neural network, the channel estimation of the RS, decompressing, with the neural network, the compressed channel estimation, and interpolating the decompressed channel estimation.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a blender and a display quality enhancer. The blender is configured to receive a plurality of layer data, generate first image data by blending the plurality of layer data, the first image data including a plurality of pixel values corresponding to a screen in a display device, and generate pixel map data including a plurality of pixel identifications (IDs) based on the plurality of layer data, the plurality of layer data representing a plurality of images to be displayed on the screen, the plurality of pixel IDs indicating display quality enhancement algorithms to be applied to the plurality of pixel values. The display quality enhancer is configured to generate second image data including a plurality of display quality enhancement pixel values by applying the display quality enhancement algorithms to the plurality of pixel values based on the first image data and the pixel map data.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a transceiver and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to identify overheating of the transceiver and/or the at least one processor, and wirelessly transmit a message including overheating assistance information based on the identified overheating to the base station via the transceiver. The overheating assistance information includes information about radio resources to be discontinuously processed by the apparatus in a time domain.

Abstract: A method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of decoding a signal are provided. The method includes receiving signal to be decoded, where signal includes at least one symbol; decoding signal in stages, where each at least one symbol of signal is decoded into at least one bit per stage, wherein Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) and a path metric are determined for each possible path for each at least one bit at each stage; determining magnitudes of the LLRs; identifying K bits of the signal with smallest corresponding LLR magnitudes; identifying, for each of the K bits, L possible paths with largest path metrics at each decoder stage for a user-definable number of decoder stages; performing forward and backward traces, for each of the L possible paths, to determine candidate codewords; performing a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) on the candidate codewords; and stopping after a first candidate codeword passes the CRC.

Abstract: Apparatuses (including user equipment (UE) and modern chips for UEs), systems, and methods for UE downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) buffer memory management are described. In one method, the entire UE DL HARQ buffer memory space is pre-partitioned according to the number and capacities of the UE's active carrier components. In another method, the UE DL HARQ buffer is split between on-chip and off-chip memory so that each partition and sub-partition is allocated between the on-chip and off-chip memories in accordance with an optimum ratio.

Abstract: Method for decoding signal includes receiving signal, where signal includes at least one symbol; decoding signal in stages, where each at least one symbol of signal is decoded into at least one bit per stage, wherein Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) for each at least one bit at each stage is determined, and identified in vector LAPP; performing Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) on LAPP, and stopping if LAPP passes CRC; otherwise, determining magnitudes of LLRs in LAPP; identifying K LLRs in LAPP with smallest magnitudes and indexing K LLRs as r={r(1), r(2), . . . , r(K)}; setting Lmax to maximum magnitude of LLRs in LAPP or maximum possible LLR quantization value; setting v=1; generating {tilde over (L)}A(r(k))=LA(r(k))?Lmaxvksign[LAPP(r(k))], for k=1, 2, . . .

Abstract: Apparatuses (including user equipment (UE) and modem chips for UEs), systems, and methods for UE downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) buffer memory management are described. In one method, the entire UE DL HARQ buffer memory space is pre-partitioned according to the number and capacities of the UE's active carrier components. In another method, the UE DL HARQ buffer is split between on-chip and off-chip memory so that each partition and sub-partition is allocated between the on-chip and off-chip memories in accordance with an optimum ratio.

Abstract: An neural network (NN) processor includes an input feature map buffer configured to store an input feature matrix, a weight buffer configured to store a weight matrix trained in a form of a, a transform circuit configured to perform a Walsh-Hadamard transform on an input feature vector obtained from the input feature matrix and a weight vector included in the weight matrix to output a transformed input feature vector and a transformed weight vector, and an arithmetic circuit configured to perform an element-wise multiplication (EWM) on the transformed input feature vector and the transformed weight vector.

Abstract: A computing system includes: a sensor configured to receive an input observation including a sample count for processing an original content; and a control unit, coupled to the sensor, configured to: generate a covariance estimate based on the input observation for identifying the original content associated with the input observation for implementing a linear estimation mechanism, and calculate a weight combination based on the covariance estimate for identifying the original content.

Abstract: A method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of decoding a signal are provided. The method includes receiving signal to be decoded, where signal includes at least one symbol; decoding signal in stages, where each at least one symbol of signal is decoded into at least one bit per stage, wherein Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) and a path metric are determined for each possible path for each at least one bit at each stage; determining magnitudes of the LLRs; identifying K bits of the signal with smallest corresponding LLR magnitudes; identifying, for each of the K bits, L possible paths with largest path metrics at each decoder stage for a user-definable number of decoder stages; performing forward and backward traces, for each of the L possible paths, to determine candidate codewords; performing a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) on the candidate codewords; and stopping after a first candidate codeword passes the CRC.

Abstract: Method for decoding signal includes receiving signal, where signal includes at least one symbol; decoding signal in stages, where each at least one symbol of signal is decoded into at least one bit per stage, wherein Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) for each at least one bit at each stage is determined, and identified in vector LAPP; performing Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) on LAPP, and stopping if LAPP passes CRC; otherwise, determining magnitudes of LLRs in LAPP; identifying K LLRs in LAPP with smallest magnitudes and indexing K LLRs as r={r(1), r(2), . . . , r(K)}; setting Lmax to maximum magnitude of LLRs in LAPP or maximum possible LLR quantization value; setting v=1; generating {tilde over (L)}A(r(k))=LA(r(k))?Lmaxvksign[LAPP(r(k))], for k=1, 2, . . .

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes configuring a plurality of long short term memory (LSTM) networks, wherein each of the plurality of LSTM networks is at a different network layer, configuring a plurality of memory cells in a spatial domain of the plurality of LSTM networks, configuring the plurality of memory cells in a temporal domain of the plurality of LSTM networks, controlling an output of each of the plurality of LSTM networks based on highway connections to outputs from at least one previous layer and at least one previous time of the plurality of LSTM networks, and controlling the plurality of memory cells based on highway connections to memory cells from the at least one previous time.

Abstract: A method and system for decoding a signal are provided. The method includes receiving a signal, where the signal includes at least one symbol; decoding the signal in stages, where each at least one symbol is decoded into at least one bit per stage, wherein a Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) and a path metric are determined for each possible path for each at least one bit at each stage; determining the magnitudes of the LLRs; identifying K bits of the signal with the smallest corresponding LLR magnitudes; identifying, for each of the K bits, L possible paths with the largest path metrics at each decoder stage for a user-definable number of decoder stages; performing forward and backward traces, for each of the L possible paths, to determine candidate codewords; performing a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) on the candidate codewords, and stopping after a first candidate codeword passes the CRC.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for generating an algebraic Spatially-Coupled Low-Density Parity-Check (SC LDPC) code are provided. The method includes selecting an LDPC block code over a finite field GF(q) with a girth of at least 6; constructing a parity-check matrix H from the selected LDPC block code; replicating H a user-definable number of times to form a two-dimensional array Hrep; constructing a masking matrix W with a user-definable spatially-coupled pattern; and masking a sub-matrix of Hrep using W to obtain a spatially-coupled parity-check matrix HSC, wherein a null space of HSC is the algebraic SC LDPC code.

Abstract: A communication system includes: a receiver resource module configured to determine a receiver-antenna count for characterizing a device; an adjustment module, coupled to the receiver resource module, configured to generate a receiver-capacity profile exceeding a capability associated with the receiver-antenna count with a control unit; and a report module, coupled to the adjustment module, configured to transmit the receiver-capacity profile for communicating a communication content for communicating with the device.

Abstract: A computing system includes: an inter-device interface configured to access a destination signal including an information portion for representing a content and an error-handling portion for describing the information portion relative to the content; a communication unit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: generate a parity-check parameter based on a sparse configuration from the destination signal, and estimate the content based on decoding the information portion using the error-handling portion and the parity-check parameter.

Abstract: A electronic system includes: a support chip configured to receive an input code stream; a circular Viterbi mechanism, coupled to the support chip, configured to: generate a final path metric for the input code stream, store intermediate path metrics at the repetition depth, generate a repetition path metric for the input code stream, and calculate a soft correlation metric based on the final path metric, the repetition path metric, and the intermediate path metrics.