Abstract: A receiver 200 as a component in a wireless communication device 100 and a corresponding method are used for receiving a multi-carrier communication signal and determining a timing offset thereof. The receiver 200 comprises a controller 222 to perform a correlation on each of a plurality of sub-carriers comprising the multi-carrier signal to provide a plurality of timing offsets. A quality metric corresponding to each of the plurality of timing offsets may be employed to select the best timing offset. Alternatively, a set of timing offsets whose quality metric exceed a threshold may be averaged. Either the best or average timing offset is used for processing all the sub-carriers of the multi-carrier signal.

Abstract: A pitch adaptive circuit (200) includes an equalizer control circuit (206) that evaluates the pitch of the speech signals that are being processed and depending on the pitch information, the equalizer control circuit (206) selects an equalizer (208, 210) to shape the decoded speech signals. By selecting the best equalizer (208 or 210) to use based on the pitch information, improvements in audio quality are provided automatically without user intervention.

Abstract: A system, wireless device (102) and method reduce the peak-to-average power of a transmitter by creating at least two sampled carrier data streams, running each carrier through a separate delay block, mixing each carrier over in frequency an appropriate amount, resulting in at least two frequency division multiplexed signals, and combining the at least two frequency division multiplexed signals together. The four sampled carrier data streams may each have a bandwidth of 25 kHz. Each separate delay block is less than 20% of its corresponding symbol time. The transmitter may be used to transmit wideband integrated digitally enhanced network (WiDEN) signals.

Abstract: In the present power control technique, a power control circuit (404) that is operably coupled to a receiver circuit (412) assesses (514, 522) a tclip adjust value based on a power cutback value from the receiver circuit. The tclip adjust value is forwarded to a peak to average ratio control circuit (402) operably coupled to the power control circuit (404), and using the tclip adjust value, an adjust peak power signal is accordingly assessed (612).

Abstract: A system, wireless device (102) and method reduce the peak-to-average power of a transmitter by creating at least two sampled carrier data streams, running each carrier through a separate delay block, mixing each carrier over in frequency an appropriate amount, resulting in at least two frequency division multiplexed signals, and combining the at least two frequency division multiplexed signals together. The four sampled carrier data streams may each have a bandwidth of 25 kHz. Each separate delay block is less than 20% of its corresponding symbol time. The transmitter may be used to transmit wideband integrated digitally enhanced network (WiDEN) signals.

Abstract: A receiver 200 as a component in a wireless communication device 100 and a corresponding method are used for receiving a multi-carrier communication signal and determining a timing offset thereof. The receiver 200 comprises a controller 222 to perform a correlation on each of a plurality of sub-carriers comprising the multi-carrier signal to provide a plurality of timing offsets. A quality metric corresponding to each of the plurality of timing offsets may be employed to select the best timing offset. Alternatively, a set of timing offsets whose quality metric exceed a threshold may be averaged. Either the best or average timing offset is used for processing all the sub-carriers of the multi-carrier signal.

Abstract: A pitch adaptive circuit (200) includes an equalizer control circuit (206) that evaluates the pitch of the speech signals that are being processed and depending on the pitch information, the equalizer control circuit (206) selects an equalizer (208, 210) to shape the decoded speech signals. By selecting the best equalizer (208 or 210) to use based on the pitch information, improvements in audio quality are provided automatically without user intervention.