Abstract: A diplexer filter having an upstream port, a downstream port and a Cable connector port forms a first transfer function for a first radio frequency (RF) signal that is coupled from the upstream port to the Cable connector port and a second transfer function for a second RF signal that is coupled from the Cable connector port to the downstream port. It includes a first filter (F1) when the first transfer function is applied and a second filter (F2) when the first transfer function is applied. A third filter (F3) coupled via a switch for selectively coupling said third filter to combine a transfer function of the third port with a transfer function of the first filter, when the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 3.1 is selected, and for selectively coupling the third filter to combine the transfer function of the third filter with a transfer function of the second filter, when the DOCSIS 3.0 is selected.

Abstract: A proximity detector includes a transmitting antenna producing, in accordance with a first radio frequency (RF) signal, an electro-magnetic field. A receiving antenna produces a first component of a second RF signal from an unscattered portion of the electro-magnetic field and produces a second component of the second RF signal from a scattered portion of the electro-magnetic field that is scattered by a user body exposed to the electro-magnetic field. The receiving antenna has an axis that is oriented perpendicularly with respect to an axis of the transmitting antenna in a manner to increase a ratio between a magnitude of the second component and a magnitude of the first component. A signal processor generates a proximity detection indicative signal when a change in the second component is indicative of a change in position of the electro-magnetic field scattering body. The proximity detection indicative signal automatically initiates a “wake-up” process in, for example, a tablet.

Abstract: A communication device comprises a processor; and a diplexer comprising a low pass filter passing signals with frequency below a first frequency threshold, the low pass filter having a first input and a first output, and a second filter being one of a high pass filter and a band pass filter passing signals with frequency above a second frequency threshold, the second filter having a second input and a second output; and a switch controllable by the processor for connecting the second input to a termination in a first state and connecting the second input to the first input in a second state responsive to a control signal from the processor, wherein the first output is coupled to the second output and the first input is configured to receive an input signal having a frequency range covering at least the first frequency threshold.

Abstract: A communication device comprises a processor; and a diplexer comprising a low pass filter passing signals with frequency below a first frequency threshold, the low pass filter having a first input and a first output, and a second filter being one of a high pass filter and a band pass filter passing signals with frequency above a second frequency threshold, the second filter having a second input and a second output; and a switch controllable by the processor for connecting the second input to a termination in a first state and connecting the second input to the first input in a second state responsive to a control signal from the processor, wherein the first output is coupled to the second output and the first input is configured to receive an input signal having a frequency range covering at least the first frequency threshold.

Abstract: At least one Universal Serial Bus (USB) device is coupled to shared memory. The memory is accessible via the at least one USB interface wherein the memory is configured to be shared between the at least one USB device, the memory configured with a memory arbiter, wherein the memory arbiter decides which of the at least one USB device can access a read-write memory space of the memory during a time period.

Abstract: A blind multipath equalizer for a digital communication channel is disclosed. The equalizer includes a sparse digital filter, responsive to a source of a received signal including a digital data signal, and including a plurality of taps, each responsive to a tap coefficient and time displacement, which produces a multipath corrected digital output signal. A filter controller is responsive to the received signal for detecting a multipath signal by calculating the autocorrelation of the received signal, detecting a multipath signal based on the autocorrelation and supplying a tap coefficient and time displacement to one of the plurality of taps to cancel the detected multipath signal.

Abstract: Compensation for offset errors caused by data truncation is accomplished by adding a compensation value to processed data in systems where the truncation stages are arranged in determinable configurations. More than one compensation value may be selected and applied. The selection of the appropriate value is determined by the number and type of truncation stages used in a given system configuration. The compensation value may be predetermined or measured.

Abstract: A VLSI integrated circuit, which comprises a single IIR input and global section and identically-structured cascadable filter sections, each of which filter sections includes a pair of time-multiplexed, real-coefficient, input-weighted FIR filter units and additional delay means, can be selectively programmed to operate in any one of a number of different filter configurations that can define real FIR or IIR filters, complex FIR or IIR filters, or filters which are various combinations thereof. One or more of such integrated circuits are useful for implementing a digital deghosting and/or equalization filter.

Abstract: A digital transversal IIR filter, in which the sum of the magnitudes of a large number of coefficient multipliers (which may be real or complex) is greater than unity, may be stable or it may be unstable. The present invention is directed to (1) a test for stability in such a filter which is simpler and faster than solving a large number of polynomial equations, and (2) the repair of a filter found by this test to be unstable. Specifically, means responsive to the respective gradients of the magnitudes of chirp-z transforms of time-domain multiplier coefficient values within one or more selected localized regions of the complex in-phase (I), quadrature(Q) frequency-domain plane determine that a filter is unstable whenever the gradient of the magnitude values of the chirp-z transform within a selected localized region of the frequency-domain plane indicates that there is a pole in the frequency-domain plane that is located beyond the boundary of a frequency-domain unit circle.