Testing Patents (Class 375/224)
  • Publication number: 20150139289
    Abstract: A receiver includes a fixed delay unit configured to delay a first clock signal received from a clock channel by a predetermined time and output a second clock signal; a first delay unit configured to delay the first clock signal in response to a first control signal; a first data sampler configured to sample a data signal received from a data channel in response to an output signal of the first delay unit and output a first data signal; a second delay unit configured to delay the first data signal in response to a second control signal and output a second data signal; a second data sampler configured to sample the second data signal in response to the second clock signal; and a delay controller configured to output the first control signal and the second control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Han-Kyu CHI, Taek-Sang SONG, Seok-Min YE, Gi-Moon HONG, Woo-Rham BAE, Min-Seong CHU, Deog-Kyoon JEONG, Su-Hwan KIM
  • Publication number: 20150139288
    Abstract: The method for passing signals through a medium under monitoring consists in generating a reference signal, transmitting this reference signal in a forward direction through the medium under monitoring by means of at least one transmitting electrical circuit, receiving the signal passing in the forward direction through the medium under monitoring by means of at least one receiving electrical circuit, transmitting the generated reference signal in the reverse direction through the medium under monitoring by means of the at least one receiving electrical circuit, receiving the signal passing in the reverse direction through the medium under monitoring by means of the at least one transmitting electrical circuit and thus ensuring the passage of signals through the medium under monitoring. The method for passing signals through a medium under monitoring ensures the production of signals passing through the medium under monitoring which have a high degree of identity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Yuriy I. Romanov
  • Patent number: 9036687
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for evaluating a network and for predicting network performance for a higher order modulation by analyzing network signals modulated using a lower order modulation format. A margin index may be generated for the current or projected modulation formats based on displacement vectors for received symbols to indicate a margin remaining before a codeword error occurs to alert the network operator of potential performance issues before actual codeword errors occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: JDS Uniphase Corporation
    Inventors: Jim Walsh, Ching-Chang Liao
  • Patent number: 9036753
    Abstract: A method for calibrating mismatches of an in-phase signal path and a quadrature signal path of a transmitter, including: additionally configuration at least one mixer calibration coefficient at a transmitting part of the transmitter; obtaining at least one mixer testing signal from the transmitting part via loopback for spectrum analysis to derive at least one mixer spectrum analysis result; adjusting the mixer calibration coefficient of the transmitting part according to the mixer spectrum analysis result; and additionally utilizing an in-phase signal path finite impulse response filter and a quadrature signal path finite impulse response filter to calibrate mismatches between a low pass filter of the in-phase signal path of the transmitting part of the transmitter and a low pass filter of the quadrature signal path of the transmitting part of the transmitter. A similar mismatch calibration operation may be applied to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Yuan-Shuo Chang, Ching-Chia Cheng
  • Publication number: 20150131707
    Abstract: Testing a Decision Feedback Equalizer (‘DFE’), the DFE including a summing amplifier operatively coupled to a plurality of latches and an input signal line for receiving a data signal, including: preventing a differential data signal from being received by the summing amplifier; and iteratively for each tap to be tested: setting a tap coefficient for each tap to zero; setting an output of the plurality of latches to a predetermined value; setting a tap coefficient for the tap to be tested to a full scale value; and determining whether a resultant output signal from the DFE matches a predetermined expected output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: EUGENE R. ATWOOD, MATTHEW B. BAECHER, MINHAN CHEN, HAYDEN C. CRANFORD, JR., WILLIAM R. KELLY, TODD M. RASMUS
  • Publication number: 20150131457
    Abstract: A gain asymmetry characterizing circuit for determining characteristics of gain asymmetry possessed by a transmitter includes a baseband loopback path, a test signal generating unit and a gain asymmetry measuring unit. The baseband loopback path is coupled to a baseband node on a first transmission path of the transmitter. The test signal generating unit is arranged to generate a first differential baseband test signal pair to the first transmission path. The first differential baseband test signal pair includes a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal. During a first period, the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal are fed into a positive input node and a negative input node of the first transmission path, respectively. During a second period, the second baseband signal and the first baseband signal are fed into the positive input node and the negative input node of the first transmission path, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Neric Fong, Bing Xu, Wei-Cheng Liu, Terry W Chen
  • Patent number: 9031119
    Abstract: A wideband transmitting and receiving apparatus including a local oscillator (LO) synthesizer providing a constant output to a wide band is provided. The LO synthesizer may generate LO signals of different amplitudes according to channels. The LO synthesizer may store the amplitudes of the LO signals different according to the channels and compensate the amplitudes of the LO signals using the stored amplitudes. Accordingly, the LO synthesizer may output the LO signals of uniform amplitudes irrespective of the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sang Won Kim, Byung Jang Jeong
  • Patent number: 9026880
    Abstract: A check node processing unit updates an extrinsic value ratio based on a prior value ratio for each row of a parity check matrix with respect to input data. An identifying unit identifies, based on an element of the parity check matrix that can be identified by a row and column associated with the updated extrinsic value ratio, a next-target element in the same column and in a different row. The identifying unit identifies an element to be updated in the next step by the check node processing unit, from among multiple elements included in the same column. A variable node processing unit updates, based on the extrinsic value ratio, a prior value ratio associated with the identified next-target element after the check node processing unit completes the updating of each row. The check node processing unit and the variable node processing unit alternately and iteratively execute their operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Inventor: Atsushi Hayami
  • Patent number: 9025650
    Abstract: A signal receiver is configured to receive multiple time-domain input signals. A plurality of the input signals among the multiple time-domain input signals is selected and transformed into frequency-domain signals. The frequency-domain signals are shifted in phase by a negative value of a respective reference phase, and the phase-shifted signals are combined into one signal. The combined signal is then multiplied with a stored signal to generate a signal product and transformed into a time-domain signal. Peak detection is performed on the time-domain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Neocific, Inc.
    Inventors: Titus Lo, Xiaodong Li
  • Patent number: 9026054
    Abstract: A method for detecting a radio signal in a wireless communication system is provided. According to the method, a wireless device measures an input signal received by a RF unit of. The wireless device eliminates a duplicated part between the input signal and a complex conjugate signal of the input signal to generate a filtered signal. The wireless device determines whether a target signal exists in the input signal based on the filtered signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Ki Jun Kim, Jeong Ho Yeo, Joon Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 9025649
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for acquiring estimated values of transmitted signals, and a system-on-chip. The method comprises: in response to the sequence number N of a current OFDM symbol between sequence numbers N1 and N2 that are sequence numbers of two adjacent OFDM symbols containing pilots, for each RE within the Nth OFDM symbol, instantaneously acquiring a channel estimation value CNi of the RE by a linear interpolation method; extracting an FFT value of the ith RE from an FFT buffer unit, and based on a preset MIMO demodulation algorithm, performing computation on the CNi and the FFT value of the ith RE, thereby obtaining an estimated value of transmitted signals fro on the ith RE within the Nth OFDM symbol. The embodiments of the disclosure can save SOC memory, reduce SOC chip cost, and enhance SOC information processing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingxin Liang, Yu Dong
  • Patent number: 9025773
    Abstract: The approach shown provides for an efficient implementation of time response, level response and frequency response alignment between two audio sources such as DAB and FM that may be time offset from each other by as much as 2 seconds, and produces an aurally undetectable transition between the sources. Computational load is significantly reduced over the approaches known in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: John Elliott Whitecar, Trudy D. Stetzler
  • Patent number: 9025648
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods of determining DC offset voltages in IQ modulators. First, two different DC test voltages are selected for one of the inputs to the IQ modulator. Then, a first test voltage is applied to one input to the IQ modulator while test data is generated by measuring outputs from a set of signals applied to the other input to the IQ modulator. Then the second test voltage is applied and another set of test data generated. From the first and second sets of test data, second-order polynomial functions may be constructed and compared to one another to yield a ratio of power value outputs. Then the DC offset voltages may be determined from the ratio of power value outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Zoltan Azary
  • Publication number: 20150117504
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a counter to count between a start value and an end value according to a local clock signal, a first register to store an output of the counter, a mirror elastic buffer to store samples of the counter output received from the first register, where the mirror elastic buffer is to mirror an elastic buffer of a receiver circuit, and a resolution logic to receive a counter output sample from the mirror elastic buffer and a current counter value output from the counter, and to determine a transit latency for a data element to traverse the receiver circuit based at least in part on the counter output sample and the current counter value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: David J. Harriman, Mahesh Wagh, Abdul R. Ismail, Daniel S. Froelich
  • Publication number: 20150117506
    Abstract: An impedance tuner system, usable in a measurement system including at least one measurement system device, the tuner system comprising the impedance tuner having a signal transmission line, and an impedance-varying system coupled to the transmission line, and responsive to command signals to selectively vary the impedance presented by the impedance tuner. An impedance tuner controller is configured to generate the command signals, and wherein measurement device drivers and at least one of characterization, calibration and measurement algorithms are embedded into the tuner controller, the tuner controller configured to allow a user to control execution of said at least one of the characterization, calibration and measurement algorithms using the tuner controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Gary R. Simpson, Steven M. Dudkiewicz
  • Patent number: 9020015
    Abstract: A differential signal transmission circuit including a pattern generator, a low voltage differential signal (LVDS) transmitter, a transition minimized differential signal (TMDS) receiver, and a comparator is provided. The pattern generator generates a plurality of test data. The LVDS transmitter is coupled to the pattern generator to receive the test data, and generates a test output signal according to the test data. The TMDS receiver receives a test input signal to output a plurality of decoded data. The comparator is coupled to the TMDS receiver to receive the decoded data and the pattern generator to receive the test data. The comparator compares the decoded data with the test data to output a test result of the TMDS receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chiao-Wei Hsiao, Chia-Hsin Lin
  • Patent number: 9020017
    Abstract: A signal processing method, device, and system are provided. The method includes: sending, through a first user port, a crosstalk detection signal in a connected line, and receiving, through a second user port, an error sample of an actual downlink signal fed back by a terminal side in a connected line; and estimating, according to the actual downlink signal and the crosstalk detection signal, a coefficient of a pre-coder of a DSLAM to obtain an estimated coefficient of the pre-coder, where the coefficient of the pre-coder is used to cancel far-end crosstalk on the line connected to the second user port when the first user port sends an SELT signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cao Shi
  • Patent number: 9020016
    Abstract: A test and measurement instrument including a time domain channel configured to process a first input signal for analysis in a time domain; a frequency domain channel configured to process a second input signal for analysis in a frequency domain; and an acquisition system coupled to the time domain channel and the frequency domain channel. The acquisition system is configured to acquire data from the time domain channel and the frequency domain channel. Time domain and frequency domain data can be time aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Dobyns, Marcus K. DaSilva
  • Patent number: 9014643
    Abstract: A mobile terminal testing device includes a reproduction unit that reproduces a BB signal to output at least one reproduced BB signal, an adder that adds a BB signal that are frequency-shifted and a reproduced BB signal to output an added BB signal, an up-converter that generates a multicarrier test signal by making a frequency conversion of the added BB signal of an I phase and Q phase and outputs the multicarrier test signal to UE, and an analyzer that analyzes a response signal output by the UE in response to the multicarrier test signal and the analyzer includes a throughput calculation unit that calculates throughput for the multicarrier test signal and an RSRP acquisition unit that acquires RSRP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Aoki, Naofumi Naruse, Toyohiro Kayanuma, Ikuya Otani
  • Patent number: 9014248
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for common mode testing for a system using an Ethernet subsystem. The Ethernet subsystem generates test signals that can be introduced at various points in the system to detect the effect of noise introduced by various elements of the system. By introducing test signals at various points in a system, common mode noise introduced into the system can be more accurately determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Wael William Diab, William Bliss
  • Publication number: 20150103873
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for characterizing electrical characteristics of a communication channel between a transmitter of a first information handling resource and a receiver of a second information handling resource may include receiving a test signal at the receiver from the transmitter during an in-situ characterization mode of the second information handling resource, converting the test signal into a discrete-time digital signal representing the test signal, generating a discrete-time finite difference function comprising a first derivative of the discrete-time digital signal, transforming the discrete-time finite difference function into a frequency-domain transform of the discrete-time finite difference function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Timothy M. Lambert, Bhavesh Govindbhai Patel, Bhyrav M. Mutnury
  • Publication number: 20150103874
    Abstract: A circuit having a component for signal recovery, such as an adaptive equalizer, may be tested in order to ensure that the component operates properly. Unfortunately, external test equipment may be expensive and prone to being damaged. According to an aspect of the disclosure, there is provided a circuit including BIST (Built-in Self-Test) circuitry for testing a component for signal recovery with a stress signal that simulates an imperfect signal received over a communication channel. The circuit also has a detector for determining whether the component is operating properly with the stress signal. Thus, no external test equipment is needed for testing the component. In some implementations, the BIST circuitry includes a low-pass filter for filtering a transmit signal into the stress signal. Thus, the amount of circuitry involved in generating the stress signal can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Brian Wall
  • Patent number: 9008164
    Abstract: An HDMI signal adjusting method is provided. A method for adjusting an HDMI signal of a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) signal receiving apparatus includes: setting an equalizer gain for an HDMI signal, receiving an HDMI signal which is adjusted according to signal adjustment information set by an HDMI signal transmitting apparatus from the HDMI signal transmitting apparatus, signal-processing the received HDMI signal according to the set equalizer gain, detecting an error rate of the signal-processed HDMI signal, and transmitting signal adjustment information corresponding to an HDMI signal having a lowest error rate from among a plurality of the signal-processed HDMI signals corresponding to a plurality of different combinations of the equalizer gain and the signal adjustment information to the HDMI signal transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-se Hong, Young-jo Seo, Sung-bo Oh, Jun-ho Lim, Hyoung-woo Jeon, Ki-sung Cha
  • Patent number: 9008161
    Abstract: A method for calibrating mismatches of an in-phase signal path and a quadrature signal path of a transmitter, including: additionally configuration at least one mixer calibration coefficient at a transmitting part of the transmitter; obtaining at least one mixer testing signal from the transmitting part via loopback for spectrum analysis to derive at least one mixer spectrum analysis result; adjusting the mixer calibration coefficient of the transmitting part according to the mixer spectrum analysis result; and additionally utilizing an in-phase signal path finite impulse response filter and a quadrature signal path finite impulse response filter to calibrate mismatches between a low pass filter of the in-phase signal path of the transmitting part of the transmitter and a low pass filter of the quadrature signal path of the transmitting part of the transmitter. A similar mismatch calibration operation may be applied to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Yuan-Shuo Chang, Ching-Chia Cheng
  • Patent number: 9008712
    Abstract: A method of handling a plurality of time offsets between a communication device of a wireless communication system and a plurality of transmission points of the wireless communication system is disclosed. The method is utilized in the communication device, and comprises obtaining the plurality of time offsets by using a first reference signal; and transmitting the plurality of time offsets to the plurality of transmission points, respectively; wherein the plurality of transmission points compensate the plurality of time offsets, respectively, when communicating with the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Chung-Lien Ho
  • Patent number: 9008216
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying minor echoes present in an input signal in the situation where a set of major echoes has already been identified from the input signal. The method includes: computing a spectrum F corresponding to a sum of the major echoes; computing a weighted power spectrum SM of the spectrum F; subtracting the weighted power spectrum SM from a weighted power spectrum PIN of the input signal to obtain a difference spectrum; performing a stabilized division of the difference spectrum by a conjugate of the spectrum F to obtain an intermediate spectrum; computing an inverse transform of the intermediate spectrum to obtain a time-domain signal; and estimating parameters one or more of the minor echoes from the time-domain signal. The echo parameters are usable to remove at least a portion of the one or more estimated minor echoes from the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Coherent Logix, Incorporated
    Inventor: Jan D. Garmany
  • Patent number: 9008237
    Abstract: A method for symbol detection includes assigning a received symbol to at least one particular candidate symbol of a set of candidate symbols of a finite candidate symbol alphabet based on a metric between the received symbol and the at least one particular candidate symbol, the metric comprising contributions with respect to channel-based information and contributions with respect to a priori information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Franz Eder, Tobias Kurpjuhn, Ernst Martin Witte
  • Patent number: 9001877
    Abstract: A signal processing device for a diversity combining radio receiver is disclosed. Said device comprises a plurality of receive branches and a joint detector adapted to determine a joint received symbol based on a combined signal. Said device also comprises a control unit adapted to determine a branch signal error based on the joint received symbol and the input signal of that receive branch. Each receive branch further comprises an adaptive filter. The control unit is adapted to update the coefficients of the adaptive filter of each receive branch based on a weighted signal error combination, wherein weight of the weighted signal error combination is selected based on channel conditions. A corresponding diversity combining radio receiver, a corresponding electronic apparatus, a corresponding method, a corresponding computer program product, and a corresponding computer readable medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Mats Rydstrom, Dan Weinholt
  • Patent number: 9001946
    Abstract: Provided are a method of receiving downlink data and a machine type communication (MTC) device using the same. The MTC device according to the present invention which has a plurality of antennas includes a reception signal processing module that receives a downlink reference signal for each antenna from a base station, estimates reception signal quality with respect to the downlink reference signal for each antenna, and selects the antenna to receive a downlink signal in accordance with the reception signal quality with respect to each antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jun Hwan Lee, Hee Sang Chung, Il Gyu Kim, Seung Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 9001875
    Abstract: The disclosure can provide methods and systems for autocalibrating a transceiver. The method can include upconverting a bandpass input signal by mixing the bandpass input signal with a first local oscillator signal to form an initial transmitter signal. The initial transmitter signal can be looped back to a receiver and downconverted with a second local oscillator signal having a frequency that is different from the first local oscillator to form an intermediate frequency signal. At least one of a gain and a phase of the transmitter can be adjusted based on a transmitter image sideband of the intermediate frequency signal to generate a calibrated transmitter signal having minimized transmitter image sideband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Lydi Smaini, Neric Fong, Sang Won Son, Bo Wang
  • Patent number: 9001843
    Abstract: Automotive area networks (AAN) have a substantially fixed network topology, meaning that the physical media used for communications between devices included in the AAN is known. For example, the physical connections within an AAN, sometimes provided by wiring harnesses, can include fixed lengths of twisted pairs of wire (“twisted pairs”). Pre-compensation parameters related to characteristics of the twisted pairs can be determined at the factory, and loaded into the memory of devices connected to the AAN. These pre-compensation parameters are used to improve the fast wake up and link acquisition times of connected devices. Various characteristics of the physical communication channel are measured or estimated as a function of mechanical, ingress, climactic, and environmental variations (MICE), and used to update the pre-compensation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Wael William Diab, Mehmet V. Tazebay
  • Publication number: 20150092824
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide communication test systems for the testing of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radio frequency wireless data communication devices, systems and networks, including Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) devices and systems. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a test system containing an integrated MIMO signal analyzer is disclosed that includes a protocol engine operative in conjunction with a waveform generator and waveform analyzer that analyzes the signal waveform of a device under test. Such a test system may offer improved capabilities such as a simpler and more flexible measurement of complex MIMO signal waveforms, more automated measurements of MIMO waveforms including beamforming functions, and more accurate measurement of the efficiency of MIMO related functions such as channel estimation, transmit precoding and beamforming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: IXIA
    Inventors: DAVID JENNINGS WICKER, JR., LESTER NOEL STOTT, JEFFREY DEAN MARKER, ALEXANDER DAVID REKOW, THOMAS ALEXANDER
  • Publication number: 20150092825
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus correlates the feedback signal to a reference transmit signal to correct time misalignments between the transmit chain and the feedback loop, wherein the reference transmit signal is generated in digital domain at an input to a transmit chain and estimates a transmit signal quality value based on the correlation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Li GAO, Abhishek Kumar AGRAWAL, Douglas GROVER, Chalin Chac LEE, Jarir Muhammad FADLULLAH, Dongbo ZHANG, Rema VAIDYANATHAN
  • Publication number: 20150092826
    Abstract: The signal analysis device includes a synchronization data generation unit 19a that outputs an A/D-converted correction signal as first synchronization data which is associated with time based on the timing of a trigger signal input from the outside, a synchronization correction value calculation unit 19c that calculates, as a first synchronization correction value, an amplitude ratio, a phase difference, and a time difference between the first synchronization data and second synchronization data input from the outside on the basis of the first synchronization data and the second synchronization data, and a correction unit 19d that corrects the amplitude, phase, and timing of the RF signal output from the object to be measured, on the basis of the first synchronization correction value or a second synchronization correction value input from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Shinichi ITO, Go INOUE, Jun ONO, Keisuke NISHIO, Yuki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20150092827
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining the imperfections of a transmit pathway and of a receive pathway of an apparatus, and associated radio apparatus, the transmit pathway comprising a first device for frequency transposition of an analogue sequence to an analogue signal, using a first transposition frequency, the receive pathway comprising a second device for frequency transposition of an analogue signal to an analogue sequence, using a second transposition frequency different from the first transposition frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: Sylvain TRAVERSO
  • Patent number: 8995511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to techniques for OTA testing suitable for producing a test signal to emulate a wireless channel while using a limited number of transmit elements. The techniques described herein enable the number of transmit antennas used to emulate a given signal path in an emulated wireless channel to be less than the number of sub-paths used to characterize the angle spread of the given signal path. As a result, a test setup is provided having a relatively small number of transmit antennas which also accurately maintaining the desirable characteristics of the emulated wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Spirent Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: John Douglas Reed
  • Patent number: 8995512
    Abstract: Receivers (500) and methods of adaptively adjusting the receivers based on a received interferer are described. The peak-to-average ratio of a received signal is used to determine the type of interferer. The ratio and interferer type, in addition to the type of on-channel signal, are used to select parameters to adjust the decay time of a peak detector (516), and the threshold and hysteresis of a comparator (518). The peak detector (516) and comparator (518) are used to generate an off-channel flag that indicates the presence of a relatively strong interferer to other modules in the receiver (500). If valid data is not present a default set of parameters is provided. The ratio is determined by dividing the maximum peak over the average or a range of ratios is determined by comparing a scaled value of the average to different scaled values of the peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Moshe Ben Ayun, Ricardo Franco, Ovadia Grossman, Mark Rozental, Uri Vallach
  • Patent number: 8995513
    Abstract: Device and method for outputting a leaked radio frequency (RF) signal useable for triggering devices under test (DUTs). The device may include a vector signal analyzer (VSA) which may also perform the method for triggering DUTs. The VSA may include a first component, configured to generate an RF signal, an input configured to receive RF signals transmitted from DUTs, and a received RF signal conditioning portion, each coupled to an internal switching portion. The VSA may be configured to generate the RF signal via the first component, leak the RF signal from the first component to the internal switching portion, generating a leaked RF signal, route the leaked RF signal to the input, bypassing the received RF signal conditioning portion and output the leaked RF signal which is useable to trigger DUTs via the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: National Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: Roman R. Sandoval, Craig E. Rupp, William G. Reid, Jaffar Shah, Paulo A. Lamas De Anda
  • Patent number: 8995515
    Abstract: Techniques for performing channel estimation in an orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM) communications system include receiving a plurality of reference signals on a plurality of subcarriers, performing channel estimation to obtain a plurality of raw channel estimates based on the received plurality of reference signals, determining a number of raw channel estimates to be used for a channel estimate refinement and calculating a refined channel estimate using the number of raw channel estimates from the plurality of raw channel estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Wistron Telecom AB
    Inventor: James Peroulas
  • Patent number: 8995517
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the location of passive intermodulation faults in a coaxial cable network. The test apparatus (100) according to one embodiment of the present invention utilizes a pair of high-power, frequency-synthesized, unmodulated RF carriers v1(t) (101) and v2(t) (102) are generated inside the HPA module of the apparatus. The power and frequency of v1(t) (101) and v2(t) (102) can be independently set to a range of values, v1(t), v2(t) are combined inside the instrument and then applied to the input of the device under test (DUT). The PIM signals (107,108,109) generated in the DUT are combined to produce the primary PIM signal vIM(t) (103). The apparatus also includes two receivers (110,111, 112,113,114,115) for the detection of vIM(t) 103 and vREF(t) (104). These signals are downconverted to 455 kHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Kaelus Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Greg Delforce, Brendan Horsfield
  • Patent number: 8995510
    Abstract: A portion of a signal under test corresponding to a portion of interest in an eye pattern is easily identified. An eye pattern display area displays an eye pattern that is derived from sample data of a signal under test in a bitmap form and shows frequency information with colors or brightness. A user selects an arbitrary point on the eye pattern display area with a cross-hair shaped mouse cursor, by manipulating a mouse. Thereafter, a waveform passing through the selected point is discriminably displayed, for example, with highlighted display on the eye pattern. Further, the corresponding portion of a waveform in the waveform display area is distinguishably displayed, such as with a highlighted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Obata
  • Publication number: 20150085909
    Abstract: A noise reduction device for use with a cable signal distributed by an outside plant of a cable system. The device includes an antenna and a signal processing system. The outside plant receives an interfering radio frequency (“RF”) signal generated by one or more external wireless signal sources and combines the interfering RF signal with the cable signal to produce a noisy cable signal. The antenna receives the interfering RF signal as a copy signal. The signal processing system modifies the copy signal to produce a processed copy signal, and combines the noisy cable signal and the processed copy signal to produce a combined signal. The signal processing system also monitors error rate values of the combined signal, and adjusts the copy signal such that the copy signal at least partially cancels the interfering RF signal in the combined signal thereby reducing the error rate values of the combined signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: David F. Hunter
  • Publication number: 20150085908
    Abstract: A customer premises equipment (“CPE”) device for use with a cable signal provided by a cable system. The CPE device includes an antenna and a signal processing system. The antenna receives an interfering radio frequency (“RF”) signal generated by one or more external wireless signal sources as a copy signal. The signal processing system receives the interfering RF signal, the cable signal, and the copy signal, modifies the copy signal to produce a processed copy signal, and combines the cable signal, the interfering RF signal, and the processed copy signal to produce a combined signal. The signal processing system also monitors error rate values of the combined signal, and adjusts the copy signal such that the copy signal at least partially cancels the interfering RF signal in the combined signal thereby reducing the error rate values of the combined signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: David F. Hunter
  • Patent number: 8989245
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for calibrating the IQ-imbalance in a low-IF receiver. A Test Signal can be generated in a mirror frequency and conveyed to the receiver. The power of the signal produced in the receiver from the conveyed Test Signal can be measured. In the absence of an IQ-imbalance, the Test Signal can be completely eliminated in the receiver and the corresponding measured power of the produced signal can be minimized. Accordingly, a two dimensional algorithm is described for calibrating a receiver and correcting the IQ-imbalance by adjusting the phase and gain difference between the I and Q channels in the receiver based on the measured power of the signal produced in the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: SiTune Corporation
    Inventors: Saeid Mehrmanesh, Vahid Mesgarpour Toosi, Mahdi Khoshgard
  • Patent number: 8989246
    Abstract: A clock and data recovery circuit with built in jitter tolerance test is disclosed. Imposing jitter on a filter inside a CDR loop to cause phase disturbances to the clock and data recovery circuit, thereby to test the jitter tolerance of the clock and data recovery circuit. Accordingly, IC test cost is significantly reduced by increasing few circuit sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventor: Pei-Si Wu
  • Patent number: 8989329
    Abstract: Generally, this disclosure describes eye width measurement and margining in communication systems. An apparatus may be configured to: decouple a phase detector from a CDR loop filter of a receiver under test in response to synchronizing a margining clock signal to a receiver clock signal; apply a margining input to the loop filter, the margining input configured to shift a frequency of the margining clock signal by a constant amount related to the margining input; compare a first bit stream and a second bit stream and configured to detect an error, the first bit stream related to a transmitted bit stream; and count cycles of the receiver clock signal or the margining clock signal, wherein an eye width associated with the receiver under test is related to the margining input, the frequency of the receiver clock signal and a count of clock cycles when the error is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dima Hammad, Vadim Levin, Amir Laufer, Ron Bar-Lev, Noam Familia, Itamar Levin
  • Publication number: 20150078426
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for evaluating and optimizing a signaling system is described. A pattern of test information is generated in a transmit circuit of the system and is transmitted to a receive circuit. A similar pattern of information is generated in the receive circuit and used as a reference. The receive circuit compares the patterns. Any differences between the patterns are observable. In one embodiment, a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) is implemented to produce patterns. An embodiment of the present disclosure may be practiced with various types of signaling systems, including those with single-ended signals and those with differential signals. An embodiment of the present disclosure may be applied to systems communicating a single bit of information on a single conductor at a given time and to systems communicating multiple bits of information on a single conductor simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Jared Zerbe, Pak Shing Chau, William Franklin Stonecypher
  • Patent number: 8982937
    Abstract: Navigation satellite receivers have a large number of channels, where phase discriminators and loop filter of a PLL operate in phase with data bits and control of numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) carried out simultaneously on all channels. Since symbol boundaries for different satellites do not match, there is a variable time delay between the generation of control signals and NCO control time. This delay may be measured by counting a number of samples in the delay interval. A proposed system measures non-energy parameters of the BPSK-signal carrier received in additive mixture with noise when a digital loop filter of PLL controls NCO with a constant or changing in time delay. A control unit controls bandwidth and a LF order by changing transfer coefficients based on analyzing estimated signal parameters and phase tracking error at a PD output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark I. Zhodzishsky, Victor A. Prasolov, Vladimir V. Veitsel, Dmitry M. Zhodzishsky, Alexey S. Lebedinsky, Ilya V. Ivantsov
  • Patent number: 8984038
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for unconstrained frequency domain adaptive filtering include one or more circuits that are operable to select one or more time domain coefficients in a current filter partition. A value may be computed for each of the selected one or more time domain coefficients based on a corresponding plurality of frequency domain coefficients. The corresponding plurality of frequency domain coefficients may be adjusted based on the computed values. A subsequent plurality of frequency domain coefficients in a subsequent filter partition may be adjusted based on the computed values. Input signals may be processed in the current filter partition based on the adjusted corresponding plurality of frequency domain coefficients. A time-adjusted version of the input signals may be processed in a subsequent filter partition based on the adjusted subsequent plurality of frequency domain coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Kuoruey (Ray) Han, Peiqing Wang, Linghsiao Wang, Kishore Kota, Arash Farhoodfar
  • Patent number: 8983393
    Abstract: A process, device and computer-readable storage medium that incorporate teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a wireless device that is unable to distinguish between a non-reduced power subframe and a reduced-power, subframe of a communications protocol including a frame having a pre-defined arrangement of non-reduced power subframes and reduced-power subframes. First and second instructions are sent to the wireless device to respectively perform a first channel quality assessment of a non-reduced power subframe and a second channel quality assessment of a reduced-power subframe. The first and second instructions respectively identify the non-reduced power subframes and the reduced-power subframes within which the first and second channel quality assessments are to be performed. After receiving the first and second channel quality assessments, it is determined whether the channel quality assessment performed by the wireless device includes instantaneous measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Arvind Raghavan, Arunabha Ghosh