Patents by Inventor Mario Rafael Hueda
Mario Rafael Hueda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240120949Abstract: A decoder for a receiver in a communication system includes an interface configured to receive encoded input data via a communication channel. The encoded input data includes forward error correction (FEC) codewords. A processor is configured to decode the FEC codewords using low density parity check (LDPC) codes defined by a parity check matrix. The parity check matrix is defined by both regular column partition (RCP) constraints and quasi-cyclic (QC) constraints. An output circuit is configured to output a decoded codeword based on the FEC codewords decoded by the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Damian Alfonso MORERO, Mario Alejandro CASTRILLON, Matias German SCHNIDRIG, Mario Rafael HUEDA
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Patent number: 11683101Abstract: A method and structure for probabilistic shaping and compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. According to an example, the present invention provides a method and structure for an implementation of distribution matcher encoders and decoders for probabilistic shaping applications. The techniques involved avoid the traditional implementations based on arithmetic coding, which requires intensive multiplication functions. Furthermore, these probabilistic shaping techniques can be used in combination with LDPC codes through reverse concatenation techniques.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.Inventors: Damian Alfonso Morero, Mario Alejandro Castrillon, Ramiro Rogelio Lopez, Cristian Cavenio, Gabriel Infante, Mario Rafael Hueda
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Publication number: 20220116120Abstract: A method and structure for equalization in coherent optical receivers. Block-based LMS (BLMS) algorithm is one of the many efficient adaptive equalization algorithms used to (i) increase convergence speed and (ii) reduce implementation complexity. Since the computation of the equalizer output and the gradient of the error are obtained using a linear convolution, BLMS can be efficiently implemented in the frequency domain with the constrained frequency-domain BLMS (FBLMS) adaptive algorithm. The present invention introduces a novel reduced complexity constrained FBLMS algorithm. This new approach replaces the two discrete Fourier transform (DFT) stages required to evaluate the DFT of the gradient error, by a simple frequency domain filtering. Implementation complexity can be drastically reduced in comparison to the standard constrained FBLMS. Furthermore, the new approach achieves better performance than that obtained with the unconstrained FBLMS in ultra-high speed coherent optical receivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Mario Rafael HUEDA, Nestor D. CAMPOS
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Patent number: 11245425Abstract: A communication system includes a transmitter having an encoder configured to encode input data using FEC codewords and a receiver including a decoder configured to decode the FEC codewords using a parity check matrix. The decoder includes check node processing units each configured to perform a check node computation on an FEC codeword using a different row of the parity check matrix. Each of the check node processing units includes an input computation stage configured to compute initial computation values, a pipelined message memory configured to shift the initial computation values at a predefined clock interval, an output computation stage configured to generate a plurality of check node output messages, a plurality of variable node processing units each configured to perform variable node update computations to generate the variable node messages, and an output circuit configured to generate a decoded codeword based on the variable node messages.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd.Inventors: Damian Alfonso Morero, Mario Alejandro Castrillon, Matias German Schnidrig, Mario Rafael Hueda
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Patent number: 11212009Abstract: A method and structure for equalization in coherent optical receivers. Block-based LMS (BLMS) algorithm is one of the many efficient adaptive equalization algorithms used to (i) increase convergence speed and (ii) reduce implementation complexity. Since the computation of the equalizer output and the gradient of the error are obtained using a linear convolution, BLMS can be efficiently implemented in the frequency domain with the constrained frequency-domain BLMS (FBLMS) adaptive algorithm. The present invention introduces a novel reduced complexity constrained FBLMS algorithm. This new approach replaces the two discrete Fourier transform (DFT) stages required to evaluate the DFT of the gradient error, by a simple frequency domain filtering. Implementation complexity can be drastically reduced in comparison to the standard constrained FBLMS. Furthermore, the new approach achieves better performance than that obtained with the unconstrained FBLMS in ultra-high speed coherent optical receivers.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.Inventors: Mario Rafael Hueda, Nestor D. Campos
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Patent number: 11190276Abstract: A method and structure for probabilistic shaping and compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. According to an example, the present invention provides a method and structure for an implementation of distribution matcher encoders and decoders for probabilistic shaping applications. The techniques involved avoid the traditional implementations based on arithmetic coding, which requires intensive multiplication functions. Furthermore, these probabilistic shaping techniques can be used in combination with LDPC codes through reverse concatenation techniques.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.Inventors: Damian Alfonso Morero, Mario Alejandro Castrillon, Ramiro Rogelio Lopez, Cristian Cavenio, Gabriel Infante, Mario Rafael Hueda
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Patent number: 11005571Abstract: A method and structure for compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. The present invention provides a coherent optical receiver with an improved 8×8 adaptive MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) equalizer configured within a digital signal processor (DSP) to compensate the effects of transmitter I/Q skew in subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) schemes. The 8×8 MIMO equalizer can be configured such that each of the 8 outputs is electrically coupled to 3 of 8 inputs, wherein each of the input-output couplings is configured as a filter. The method includes compensating for impairments to the digital conversion of an optical input signal via the 8×8 MIMO equalizer following other signal processing steps, such as chromatic dispersion (CD)/polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) compensation, carrier recovery, timing synchronization, and cycle slip correction.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: INPHI CORPORATIONInventors: Mario Rafael Hueda, José L. Correa Lust, Damian Alfonso Morero
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Patent number: 10958354Abstract: A method and structure for signal propagation in a coherent optical receiver device. Asynchronous equalization helps to reduce complexity and power dissipation, and also improves the robustness of timing recovery. However, conventional devices using inverse interpolation filters ignore adaptation algorithms. The present invention provides for forward propagation and backward propagation. In the forward case, the filter input signal is forward propagated through a filter to the adaptation engine, while, in the backward case, the error signal is backward propagated through a filter to the asynchronous domain. Using such forward and backward propagation schemes reduces implementation complexity while providing optical device performance.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: INPHI CORPORATIONInventors: Damián Alfonso Morero, Mario Rafael Hueda, Oscar Ernesto Agazzi
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Publication number: 20210044360Abstract: A method and structure for probabilistic shaping and compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. According to an example, the present invention provides a method and structure for an implementation of distribution matcher encoders and decoders for probabilistic shaping applications. The techniques involved avoid the traditional implementations based on arithmetic coding, which requires intensive multiplication functions. Furthermore, these probabilistic shaping techniques can be used in combination with LDPC codes through reverse concatenation techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Damian Alfonso MORERO, Mario Alejandro CASTRILLON, Ramiro Rogelio LOPEZ, Cristian CAVENIO, Gabriel INFANTE, Mario Rafael HUEDA
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Patent number: 10848249Abstract: A method and structure for probabilistic shaping and compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. According to an example, the present invention provides a method and structure for an implementation of distribution matcher encoders and decoders for probabilistic shaping applications. The techniques involved avoid the traditional implementations based on arithmetic coding, which requires intensive multiplication functions. Furthermore, these probabilistic shaping techniques can be used in combination with LDPC codes through reverse concatenation techniques.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: INPHI CORPORATIONInventors: Damian Alfonso Morero, Mario Alejandro Castrillon, Ramiro Rogelio Lopez, Cristian Cavenio, Gabriel Infante, Mario Rafael Hueda
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Patent number: 10841013Abstract: A receiver (e.g., for a 10G fiber communications link) includes an interleaved ADC coupled to a multi-channel equalizer that can provide different equalization for different ADC channels within the interleaved ADC. That is, the multi-channel equalizer can compensate for channel-dependent impairments. In one approach, the multi-channel equalizer is a feedforward equalizer (FFE) coupled to a Viterbi decorder, for example, a sliding block Viterbi decoder (SBVD); and the FFE and/or the channel estimator for the Viterbi decoder are adapted using the LMS algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: INPHI CORPORATIONInventors: Oscar Ernesto Agazzi, Diego Ernesto Crivelli, Hugo Santiago Carrer, Mario Rafael Hueda, German Cesar Augusto Luna, Carl Grace
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Publication number: 20200321985Abstract: A decoder performs forward error correction based on quasi-cyclic regular column-partition low density parity check codes. A method for designing the parity check matrix reduces the number of short-cycles of the matrix to increase performance. An adaptive quantization post-processing technique further improves performance by eliminating error floors associated with the decoding. A parallel decoder architecture performs iterative decoding using a parallel pipelined architecture.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Damian Alfonso MORERO, Mario Alejandro CASTRILLON, Matias German SCHNIDRIG, Mario Rafael HUEDA
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Publication number: 20200295842Abstract: A method and structure for compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. The present invention provides a coherent optical receiver with an improved 8x8 adaptive MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) equalizer configured within a digital signal processor (DSP) to compensate the effects of transmitter I/Q skew in subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) schemes. The 8×8 MIMO equalizer can be configured such that each of the 8 outputs is electrically coupled to 3 of 8 inputs, wherein each of the input-output couplings is configured as a filter. The method includes compensating for impairments to the digital conversion of an optical input signal via the 8x8 MIMO equalizer following other signal processing steps, such as chromatic dispersion (CD)/polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) compensation, carrier recovery, timing synchronization, and cycle slip correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Mario Rafael HUEDA, José L. CORREA LUST, Damian Alfonso MORERO
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Patent number: 10763972Abstract: A timing recovery system generates a sampling clock to synchronize sampling of a receiver to a symbol rate of an incoming signal. The input signal is received over an optical communication channel. The receiver generates a timing matrix representing coefficients of a timing tone detected in the input signal. The timing tone representing frequency and phase of a symbol clock of the input signal and has a non-zero timing tone energy. The receiver computes a rotation control signal based on the timing matrix that represents an amount of accumulated phase shift in the input signal relative to the sampling clock. A numerically controlled oscillator is controlled to adjust at least one of the phase and frequency of the sampling clock based on the rotation control signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: INPHI CORPORATIONInventors: Mario Rafael Hueda, Mauro Marcelo Bruni, Federico Nicolas Paredes, Hugo Santiago Carrer, Diego Ernesto Crivelli, Oscar Ernesto Agazzi, Norman L. Swenson, Seyedmohammadreza Motaghiannezam
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Patent number: 10742327Abstract: A coherent receiver comprises an ingress signal path having an ingress line-side interface, and an ingress host-side interface. The ingress signal path is configured to receive an analog signal vector at the ingress line-side interface, to demodulate the analog signal vector, and to output a digital data signal Fat the ingress host-side interface. The coherent receiver also comprises clock and timing circuitry configured to receive a single reference clock signal and to provide a plurality of modified ingress path clock signals to different components of the ingress signal path, the plurality of modified ingress path clock signals derived from the single reference clock signal and the plurality of modified ingress path clock signals having different clock rates. The receiver, transmitter, or transceiver can operate in a plurality of programmable operating modes to accommodate different modulation/de-modulation schemes, error correction code schemes, framing/mapping protocols, or other programmable features.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: INPHI CORPORATIONInventors: Oscar Ernesto Agazzi, Diego Ernesto Crivelli, Paul Voois, Ramiro Rogelio Lopez, Jorge Manuel Finochietto, Norman L. Swenson, Mario Rafael Hueda, Hugo Santiago Carrer, Vadim Gutnik, Adrián Ulises Morales, Martin Ignacio Del Barco, Martin Carlos Asinari, Federico Nicolas Paredes, Alfredo Javier Taddei, Mauro Marcelo Bruni, Damian Alfonso Morero, Facundo Abel Alcides Ramos, María Laura Ferster, Elvio Adrian Serrano, Pablo Gustavo Quiroga, Roman Antonio Arenas, Matias German Schnidrig, Alejandro Javier Schwoykoski
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Publication number: 20200244372Abstract: A method and structure for probabilistic shaping and compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. According to an example, the present invention provides a method and structure for an implementation of distribution matcher encoders and decoders for probabilistic shaping applications. The techniques involved avoid the traditional implementations based on arithmetic coding, which requires intensive multiplication functions. Furthermore, these probabilistic shaping techniques can be used in combination with LDPC codes through reverse concatenation techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Damian Alfonso MORERO, Mario Alejandro CASTRILLON, Ramiro Rogelio LOPEZ, Cristian CAVENIO, Gabriel INFANTE, Mario Rafael HUEDA
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Patent number: 10727874Abstract: A decoder performs forward error correction based on quasi-cyclic regular column-partition low density parity check codes. A method for designing the parity check matrix reduces the number of short-cycles of the matrix to increase performance. An adaptive quantization post-processing technique further improves performance by eliminating error floors associated with the decoding. A parallel decoder architecture performs iterative decoding using a parallel pipelined architecture.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: INPHI CORPORATIONInventors: Damian Alfonso Morero, Mario Alejandro Castrillon, Matias German Schnidrig, Mario Rafael Hueda
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Patent number: 10715259Abstract: A method and structure for compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. The present invention provides a coherent optical receiver with an improved 8×8 adaptive MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) equalizer configured within a digital signal processor (DSP) to compensate the effects of transmitter I/Q skew in subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) schemes. The 8×8 MIMO equalizer can be configured such that each of the 8 outputs is electrically coupled to 3 of 8 inputs, wherein each of the input-output couplings is configured as a filter. The method includes compensating for impairments to the digital conversion of an optical input signal via the 8×8 MIMO equalizer following other signal processing steps, such as chromatic dispersion (CD)/polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) compensation, carrier recovery, timing synchronization, and cycle slip correction.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: INPHI CORPORATIONInventors: Mario Rafael Hueda, José L. Correa Lust, Damian Alfonso Morero
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Publication number: 20200204267Abstract: A method and structure for equalization in coherent optical receivers, Block-based LMS (BLMS) algorithm is one of the many efficient adaptive equalization algorithms used to (i) increase convergence speed and (ii) reduce implementation complexity. Since the computation of the equalizer output and the gradient of the error are obtained using a linear convolution, BLMS can be efficiently implemented in the frequency domain with the constrained frequency-domain BLMS (FBLMS) adaptive algorithm. The present invention introduces a novel reduced complexity constrained FBLMS algorithm. This new approach replaces the two discrete Fourier transform (DFT) stages required to evaluate the DFT of the gradient error, by a simple frequency domain filtering. Implementation complexity can be drastically reduced in comparison to the standard constrained FBLMS. Furthermore, the new approach achieves better performance than that obtained with the unconstrained FBLMS in ultra-high speed coherent optical receivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Mario Rafael HUEDA, Nestor D. CAMPOS
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Publication number: 20200112375Abstract: A method and structure for signal propagation in a coherent optical receiver device. Asynchronous equalization helps to reduce complexity and power dissipation, and also improves the robustness of timing recovery. However, conventional devices using inverse interpolation filters ignore adaptation algorithms. The present invention provides for forward propagation and backward propagation. In the forward case, the filter input signal is forward propagated through a filter to the adaptation engine, while, in the backward case, the error signal is backward propagated through a filter to the asynchronous domain. Using such forward and backward propagation schemes reduces implementation complexity while providing optical device performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Damián Alfonso MORERO, Mario Rafael HUEDA, Oscar Ernesto AGAZZI