Abstract: An amplifier includes: a first operational signal path arranged to generate a first pre-output signal according to an input signal under a first operating mode of the amplifier; a second operational signal path arranged to generate a second pre-output signal according to the input signal under a second operating mode of the amplifier; and an output stage, coupled to the first operational signal path and the second operational signal path, for outputting a first output signal according to the first pre-output signal under the first operating mode and outputting a second output signal according to the second pre-output signal under the second operating mode, wherein the first operational signal path and the second operational signal path are arranged to share at least one common circuit element for generating the first pre-output signal and the second pre-output signal under the first operating mode and the second operating mode, respectively.

Abstract: A communications apparatus includes at least a first processor logic unit obtaining a support band list, a second processor logic unit generating a frequency search list for a first operating band and a frequency search list for a second operating band listed in the support band list, and a third processor logic unit performing power scan and cell search according to the frequency search lists. The frequency search list includes information regarding operating frequencies located in the corresponding operating band to be searched. The second operating band includes one or more operating frequencies overlapped with that of the first operating band, and the one or more operating frequencies of the second operating band overlapped with that of the first operating band is/are listed only in one of the frequency search list for the first operating band and the frequency search list for the second operating band.

Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided. The ESD protection circuit includes an impedance device coupled between a pad and a power line and a clamp unit coupled between the pad and a ground line.

Abstract: A method of using additional uplink measurements for MDT UL coverage is provided. A base station (eNodeB) establishes a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication network. The eNodeB and the UE are configured for Minimization of Drive Test (MDT). The eNodeB receives a Power Headroom Report (PRH) corresponds to a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) from the UE, and forwards the PHR to an MDT server. The eNodeB performs uplink measurement of a Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) allocated in the PUSCH. The uplink measurement also involves measuring an uplink Received Interference Power (RIP) associated with the PUSCH. The eNodeB then reports uplink measurement results to the MDT server. The MDT server is able to determine uplink coverage based on the PHR and the uplink measurement results.

Abstract: An I/O electrostatic discharge (ESD) device having a gate electrode over a substrate, a gate dielectric layer between the gate electrode and the substrate, a pair of sidewall spacers respectively disposed on two opposite sidewalls of the gate electrode, a first lightly doped drain (LDD) region disposed under one of the sidewall spacers, a source region disposed next to the first LDD region, a second LDD region disposed under the other sidewall spacer, and a drain region disposed next to the second LDD region. The I/O ESD device has an asymmetric LDD configuration. In one embodiment, a junction of the second LDD region is shallower than that of the first LDD region.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitter assisted Quality of Service (QoS) measurement. Time information is generated by the transmitter and transmitted along with a data transmission. A receiving device determines a QoS measurement based upon the time information and the received data. The time information indicates when the data was made available for transmission, which data transmission blocks belong to a single data transmission, and when a transmitter buffer was emptied. The QOS measurements are performance measurement such as, latency measurements and throughput measurements. The time information indicates a time reference relative to the timing of a wireless interface. The time reference is a System Frame Number (SFN), a Connection Frame Number (CFN), a relative count of frame numbers, a count of sub-frames, or a count of Time Transmission Intervals (TTIs). An aggregated QOS measurement is generated based upon the QOS measurement.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for in-loop processing of reconstructed video are disclosed. The reconstructed video data is partitioned into image units. The image unit corresponds to a Largest Coding Unit (LCU), a slice, or a tile. Horizontal deblocking is applied to the reconstructed video data across vertical image-unit boundaries and then vertical deblocking operates on n pixels of horizontal-deblocked video data on each side of horizontal image-unit boundaries. According to various embodiments of the present invention, the horizontal deblocking is applied to at least one of said n reconstructed lines to generate at least a horizontal-deblocked line for line pn?1. Sample adaptive offset (SAO) processing is then applied to at least a horizontal-deblocked line for line pn based on the horizontal-deblocked line for line pn?1. The above steps are performed before a neighboring image unit below the current image unit arrives.

Abstract: A sigma-delta modulator includes a processing circuit, a quantizer, a truncater and a feedback circuit. The processing circuit receives an input signal and an analog information and generates an integrated signal by perform an integration upon a difference between the input signal and the analog information. The quantizer includes a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for receiving the integrated signal and generating a digital information according to the integrated signal. The truncater receives the digital information and generates a truncated information according to the digital information. The feedback circuit generates the analog information to the processing circuit according to the truncated information.

Abstract: A method of throughput and data volume measurement for minimization of drive test (MDT) is proposed. A base station establishes a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication network. The base station or UE measures transmitted or received data volume during a transmission time of a data burst between the base station and the UE. When the data burst spans multiple measurement periods and the data burst is split at each measurement period boundary. For each measurement period, data volume during the measurement period is measured to generate a measurement result. When throughput measurement is performed by the network, the base station receives location information that is available during the transmission time of the data burst. The data volume measurement is logged with time stamp such that each measurement result can correlated with the location information.

Abstract: A method of network-based positioning using sounding reference signal (SRS) is proposed. An eNodeB configures a number of parameters of a periodic SRS transmission for a user equipment (UE). The eNodeB then transmits SRS configuration data for SRS measurements performed by a location measurement unit (LMU). The SRS configuration data includes cell-specific SRS bandwidth configuration and UE-specific SRS bandwidth configuration. The SRS configuration data may further include a number of antenna ports for SRS transmission, SRS frequency hopping bandwidth configuration, information on whether SRS sequence-group hopping is enabled, and ?SS when SRS sequence hopping is enabled. Upon receiving the SRS configuration data, the LMU is able to perform timing measurements over the received SRS signals from the UE. In one embodiment, the LMU detects SRS dropping to avoid performance degradation of the network-based positioning.

Abstract: A method for scheduling request triggering based on traffic condition is provided. The method supports detecting a traffic condition, determining a modified scheduling request (SR) trigger based on the traffic condition and transmitting a scheduling request to a base station based on the modified SR trigger. In one embodiment, the modified SR trigger is a data buffer or a data generation rate exceeding a threshold. In one embodiment, the threshold is related to a prioritized Bit Rate (PBR) or a bucket Size Duration (BSD) or both. In another embodiment, the threshold is configured by the base station based on a size of the smallest grant under the traffic condition. In one embodiment, the threshold is updated when DRX state changes. In another embodiment, during DRX sleep state, the SR period is longer or SR is stopped.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for active location acquisition. An active location acquisition controller is included in a device. The active location acquisition controller can be a circuit or code running on a processor included in the device. A measurement collection request is communicated to the device. The device then determines if and how a location information is to be acquired. If the device determines that the location information is to be acquired, the device enables a location acquisition system to acquire the location information and the device then acquires the requested measurement and stores the requested measurement and the location information in the measurement log. If the device determines that the location information is not to be acquired, the device disables a location acquisition system and does not acquire the location information and the device then acquires the requested measurement and stores the requested measurement in the measurement log.

Abstract: A method of user equipment (UE) providing speed information to network is provided. The method supports obtaining speed information of the UE, detecting a trigger event and providing the speed information to the network by one or more predefined means. The speed information is taken from the group consisting of a physical speed, a physical speed mapped on a pre-defined speed group, and a virtual speed. The virtual speed comprises a cell change count or a number cells that the UE has requested RRC connection during a certain period. The UE can send the speed information to an eNB via RRC connection establishment, RRC connection re-establishment, a new IE in RRC measure report or a new RRC message.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a die pad, at least one semiconductor die mounted on the die pad, a plurality of leads disposed along peripheral edges of the die pad, at least one connecting bar for supporting the die pad, a first power bar disposed on one side of the connecting bar, a second power bar disposed on the other side of the connecting bar, and a connection member traversing the connecting bar and electrically connecting the first power bar with the second power bar.

Abstract: A method for read pointer maintenance of a buffering apparatus, which is arranged to buffer data of a multi-tile encoded picture having a plurality of tiles included therein, includes the following steps: judging if decoding of a first tile of the multi-tile encoded picture encounters a tile boundary of the first tile; and when it is judged that the tile boundary of the first tile is encountered, storing a currently used read pointer into a pointer buffer, and loading a selected read pointer from the pointer buffer to act as the currently used read pointer.

Abstract: A method to realize IP flow mobility (IFOM) between 3GPP access and non-3GPP access over GTP based interfaces is proposed. A user equipment is connected to a PDN-GW via a 3GPP access network and a non-3GPP access network. The UE transmits an IFOM triggering message to the PDN-GW, which selects IP flows to be moved based on EPS bearer ID and IP flow description. The PDN-GW sends an Update Bearer Request to a WAG or ePDG, and updates its mapping table if the Update Bearer Request is successful. The UE also updates its mapping table upon receiving an IFOM acknowledgement from the WAG or ePDG. The PDN-GW initiates a 3GPP bearer modification procedure to move the selected IP flows.

Abstract: A coding system includes a decoding block and a reconstruction loop with first and second adaptive restoration blocks. The decoding block receives and decodes an encoded bitstream to derive residues, prediction information, and adaptive restoration information. The reconstruction loop reconstructs a current frame according to the residues and prediction information. The first adaptive restoration block performs restoration on a first set of processed data according to a first set of the adaptive restoration information, and the second adaptive restoration block performs restoration on an output of the first adaptive restoration block according to a second set of the adaptive restoration information.

Abstract: A method for video coding is provided. The method includes retrieving a video frame, determining a maximal number of reference frames for the video frame, determining a search window size according to the maximal number of reference frames, and performing prediction encoding on the video frame according to the maximal number of reference frames and the search window size.

Abstract: One exemplary memory control method of a memory device includes: assigning an indicator to each physical row partition in the memory device for indicating if the corresponding physical row partition is to be refreshed; and controlling a partial refresh operation of the memory device according to the indicator of each physical row partition. Each physical row partition is a portion of the memory device. Another exemplary memory control system of a memory device, comprising: a checking unit configured for setting at least one indicator to indicate if part of the memory device is to be refreshed by a partial refresh operation; and a refresh control unit configured for controlling the memory device to perform the partial refresh operation according to the at least one indicator.

Abstract: An exemplary signal amplification circuit includes an input stage, a plurality of output stages and a selecting stage. The input stage has an input node for receiving an input signal and an output node for outputting an intermediate signal. The output stages are coupled to a plurality of output ports of the signal amplification circuit, respectively. Each output stage generates a corresponding processed signal to a corresponding output port according to a gain and the intermediate signal when enabled. The selecting stage selectively couples the output node of the input stage to at least one of the output stages. The signal amplification circuit outputs a first number of processed signal(s) when operated under a first operational mode, and outputs a second number of processed signal(s) when operated under a second operational mode.