Predistortion (e.g., For Power Amplifier) Patents (Class 455/114.3)
  • Patent number: 11929854
    Abstract: The present application provides a signal compensation method and a signal compensation device; in which, a pre-equalization processing is performed respectively on a plurality of bits corresponding to each modulation symbol in a bit sequence to be modulated, and results of the pre-equalization processing are simply added and then subjected to a nonlinear predistortion processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SANECHIPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaofan Lu
  • Patent number: 11901923
    Abstract: A signal transmitter is provided. The signal transmitter includes a signal splitting module, including M output interfaces, where the signal splitting module is configured to split a signal into N sub-signals, and output the N sub-signals through N of the M output interfaces, where M and N are integers, M?2, N?1, and M?N, an integrated array traveling-wave tube amplifier, including M radio frequency channels, where the M channels one-to-one correspond to the M output interfaces, each channel is configured to perform power amplification on a sub-signal that is output from a corresponding output interface, and each channel is openable and closeable, a power supply module, configured to supply power to the integrated array traveling-wave tube amplifier, and at least one transmit antenna, configured to send a signal obtained through power amplification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qianfu Cheng, Hua Cai, Guangjian Wang
  • Patent number: 11863210
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, devices, modules, methods, and other implementations, including a method for digital predistortion that includes receiving, by a digital predistorter, a first signal that depends on amplitude variations based on an input signal, u, with the variations of the first signal corresponding to time variations in non-linear characteristics of a transmit chain that includes a power amplifier. The method further includes receiving, by the digital predistorter, the input signal u, generating, by the digital predistorter, based at least in part on signals comprising the input signal u and the first signal, a digitally predistorted signal v to mitigate the non-linear behavior of the transmit chain, and providing the predistorted signal v to the transmit chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NanoSemi, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Megretski, Zohaib Mahmood, Yan Li, Kevin Chuang, Helen H. Kim, Yu-Chen Wu
  • Patent number: 11797035
    Abstract: A voltage regulator includes a slew-up circuit, a slew-down circuit and a transient response control circuit, and provides a regulated output voltage. The slew-up circuit is designed to couple a first node of the voltage regulator to a first constant reference potential upon occurrence of a first condition of the regulated output voltage. The slew-down circuit is designed to couple the first node to a second constant reference potential upon occurrence of a second condition of the regulated output voltage. The transient response control circuit is designed to disable the slew-up circuit and the slew-down circuit upon the rate of change of the regulated output voltage exceeding a predetermined rate. The first node is one of an output node and an output steering node of the voltage regulator. Transient response of the voltage regulator is accordingly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ningbo Aura Semiconductor Co., Limited
    Inventors: Arnold J D'Souza, Shyam Somayajula
  • Patent number: 11769230
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the denoising of images in the presence of broadband noise based on the detection and/or estimation of in-band noise. According to various example embodiments, an estimate of broadband noise that lies within the imaging band is made by detecting or characterizing the out-of-band noise that lies outside of the imaging band. This estimated in-band noise may be employed for denoise the detected imaging waveform. According to other example embodiments, a reference receive circuit that is sensitive to noise within the imaging band, but is isolated from the imaging energy, may be employed to detect and/or characterize the noise within the imaging band. The estimated reference noise may be employed to denoise the detected in-band imaging waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Brian Courtney, Naimul Mefraz Khan, Natasha Alves-Kotzev
  • Patent number: 11671059
    Abstract: A device configured to perform wireless communication includes: a pre-distortion circuit configured to generate a pre-distorted input signal by performing pre-distortion on an input signal based on a parameter set comprising a plurality of coefficients; a power amplifier configured to generate an output signal by amplifying an RF signal based on the pre-distorted input signal; and a parameter obtaining circuit configured to obtain second memory polynomial modeling information corresponding to an operating frequency band based on first memory polynomial modeling information corresponding to each of a plurality of frequency sections and obtain a parameter set according to an indirect learning structure by using the second memory polynomial modeling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongmin Choi, Junse Lee, Hyunseok Yu, Youngik Cho
  • Patent number: 11658721
    Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided, the method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information including a number of total beam quantities (N) and a number of selected beam quantities (L), wherein L?N; calculating an index indicating L selected beam quantities out of N total beam quantities based on the configuration information and a predefined mapping table including combinatorial binomial coefficient values, C ? ( x , y ) = ( x y ) (i.e., x choose y); and transmitting, to the BS, the index indicating the L selected beam quantities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi
  • Patent number: 11451253
    Abstract: A digital signal process unit includes a first cancel signal generation unit and a second cancel signal generation unit. The first cancel signal generation unit generates, as a first cancel signal component, a cancel signal component corresponding to an image signal included in an analog signal output from a mixer. The second cancel signal generation unit generates, as a second cancel signal component, a cancel signal component corresponding to a leakage signal generated between an input and output of the mixer. The digital signal process unit includes subtractors for subtracting the first cancel signal component and the second cancel signal component from a signal component corresponding to a frequency band divided from an input signal to obtain a digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruo Jo, Munehiko Nagatani, Hiroshi Hamada, Hiroyuki Fukuyama, Hideyuki Nosaka, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11398862
    Abstract: An improved amplification of multiband signals for an uplink, in particular a satellite uplink is provided. For this purpose, multiple signals for separate frequency bands may be provided to a number of two or more uplink converters. The output of each uplink converter is amplified by a separate amplifier and the separately amplified signals are combined to obtain an amplified multiband uplink signal. In particular a waveguide combiner may be used for combining the amplified signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christian Baier, Florian Ohnimus, Sebastian Preis, Lothar Schenk, Raimon Goeritz
  • Patent number: 11336237
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a vector modulator architecture, having an input splitter network configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) input signal and generate a plurality of quadrature signals at different phases, a variable gain amplifier (VGA) stage coupled to the input splitter network and configured to apply a first gain to one or more of the plurality of quadrature signals, a power combiner coupled to the VGA stage and configured to combine the plurality of quadrature signals into a combined RF signal, and a power amplifier (PA) stage coupled to the power combiner and configured to apply a second gain to the combined RF signal and generate an output RF signal. Other examples disclosed herein relate to an antenna system for autonomous vehicles and a radar system for use in an autonomous driving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventor: Asmita Dani
  • Patent number: 11336311
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including an antenna module comprising a plurality of radio frequency (RF) chains, and a processor configured to control the antenna module, wherein each of the RF chains comprises an amplifier that amplifies power and a power detector, and wherein the antenna module further comprises a switching circuit that selectively switches between a first path and a second path, the first path being a connection through which an RF signal converted in the antenna module is transmitted to the power detector causing the RF signal to be detected, and the second path being a connection through which the RF signal is transmitted to the amplifier causing the power detector to detect an RF signal of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Hanyeop Lee, Jooseung Kim, Jiyong Kim, Jongin Lee, Hyosung Lee, Ilpyo Hong, Hyoseok Na
  • Patent number: 11309850
    Abstract: It is configured to output a first I signal having passed through a first inverse characteristic circuit having inverse frequency characteristics to frequency characteristics of a first loop filter circuit, to the first loop filter circuit, and output a first Q signal having passed through a second inverse characteristic circuit having inverse frequency characteristics to frequency characteristics of a second loop filter circuit, to the second loop filter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hifumi Noto, Hiroyuki Akutsu
  • Patent number: 11303251
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, and other implementations, including a method for digital predistortion for a power amplifier system. The method includes determining one or more system characteristics for the power amplifier system comprising at least a power amplifier that produces output with non-linear distortions, with the one or more system characteristics corresponding to an estimate for a complex load metric for the power amplifier system coupled to a load. The method further includes determining, based on the one or more system characteristics corresponding to the estimate for the complex load metric, digital predistortion (DPD) coefficients to compensate for the nonlinear behavior of the power amplifier system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NanoSemi, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Chen Wu, Yanyu Huang, Zohaib Mahmood, Helen H. Kim
  • Patent number: 11269038
    Abstract: In a device and method for monitoring an RF transmission circuit of an MRI device: a first power measurement signal is acquired that indicates a voltage of a first RF signal provided by an RF power amplifier of the RF transmission circuit; two second power measurement signals are received that each indicate a voltage of one second RF signal, the two second RF signals being generated based on the first RF signal by a bridge of the circuit and transmitted via an RF transmit coil; an inverse matrix calculation is performed based on the two second power measurement signals to obtain a voltage calculation value; the voltage calculation value is compared with the first power measurement signal; an operational status of the RF transmission circuit is determined based on a difference between the voltage calculation value and a voltage value of the first power measurement signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Hong Cheng, Zhi Bin Li, Wen Ming Li
  • Patent number: 11251755
    Abstract: A device configured to perform wireless communication includes: a pre-distortion circuit configured to generate a pre-distorted input signal by performing pre-distortion on an input signal based on a parameter set comprising a plurality of coefficients; a power amplifier configured to generate an output signal by amplifying an RF signal based on the pre-distorted input signal; and a parameter obtaining circuit configured to obtain second memory polynomial modeling information corresponding to an operating frequency band based on first memory polynomial modeling information corresponding to each of a plurality of frequency sections and obtain a parameter set according to an indirect learning structure by using the second memory polynomial modeling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongmin Choi, Junse Lee, Hyunseok Yu, Youngik Cho
  • Patent number: 11237197
    Abstract: A system and method for making improved measurements of integrated antenna arrays utilizes vector network analyzer (VNA) and a calibrated receive-side system comprising two antennae, dual reflectometers coupled to the two antennae for match correction, a wide band intermediate frequency (IF) strip which connects the receive-side system to the input ports of the VNA, an air gap which separates the receive-side system form the DUT, and a stepmotion baffle configure to be inserted into the air gap to modify antenna coupling. The system and method enable measurement of noise characteristics of the DUT including nonlinear effects of transmitter element coupling between the plurality of transmitter elements within an antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ANRITSU COMPANY
    Inventor: Jon Martens
  • Patent number: 11223323
    Abstract: Multi-level envelope tracking systems with separate DC and AC paths are provided. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracking system for generating a power amplifier supply voltage for a power amplifier is provided. The envelope tracking system includes a multi-level supply (MLS) DC-to-DC converter that outputs multiple regulated voltages, an MLS modulator that controls selection of the regulated voltages over time based on an envelope signal corresponding to an envelope of a radio frequency (RF) signal amplified by the power amplifier, an AC path filter coupled between an output of the MLS modulator and the power amplifier supply voltage, and a DC path filter coupled between a DC voltage and the power amplifier supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Francois Drogi, Florinel G. Balteanu
  • Patent number: 11211900
    Abstract: Methods and systems for power amplification with digital quantized power supply with multiple amplifiers are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, In one embodiment, a time-varying envelope signal is sampled, quantized and decomposed into several constituent signals that are individually amplified, and then combined to form a desired amplified version of the quantized time-varying envelope. Amplitude, phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals and supply voltages Vdd and source current of one or more amplifiers are digital controlled based on the information provided by quantization process and slow and fast power control information. Amplitude, phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the constituent signals to be amplified are controlled to provide the desired amplitude, phase, frequency, and/or spectral characteristics of the desired quantized version of the time-varying envelope signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Paulo Carvalho, Rui Dinis, Luis Campos, Hugo Serra, Joäo Oliveira, Ricardo Madeira, Ricardo Laires
  • Patent number: 11205836
    Abstract: An antenna array module includes at least two antenna units mounted on a surface of a feed network circuit board with two power division circuits, and a filter mounted on a surface of the feed network circuit board with two coupling circuits. Each power division circuit includes an input end and a plurality of output ends. One power division circuit feeds an antenna unit for ?45° polarization, and the other power division circuit feeds an antenna unit for +45° polarization. Each coupling circuit includes a radio frequency input end and an output end, and the output end of the coupling circuit is electrically connected to the input end of the power division circuit. The filter includes at least two output ends that are electrically connected to the radio frequency input end of the coupling circuit. A base station antenna includes a mounting structure and a connection structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: TONGYU COMMUNICATION INC.
    Inventors: Qingchen Chu, Mulin Liu, Zhonglin Wu, Wei Zhao, Wenlan Wang, Zhuofeng Gao, Lidong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11177778
    Abstract: A method for digital predistortion (DPD) calibration in a wireless communication device is provided that includes transmitting, by transmission circuitry of the wireless communication device, a plurality of pulses, where each pulse corresponds to an amplitude step in a pattern of amplitude steps, where the amplitude steps are separated by silence gaps, receiving each pulse in receiver circuitry of the wireless communication device, generating, by an accumulator component of the wireless communication device, an accumulated sample for each pulse based on a plurality of samples output by the receiver circuitry for the pulse, and computing, by a processor of the wireless communication device, amplitude dependent gain (AM/AM) and amplitude dependent phase shift (AM/PM) values for each accumulated sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Raghu Ganesan, Harish Kumar Ramesh, John Roshan Samuel Chandran, Lakshmi Bala Krishna Manoja Vinnakota
  • Patent number: 11171614
    Abstract: A pre-distorter that both accurately compensates for the non-linearities of a radio frequency transmit chain, and that imposes as few computation requirements in terms of arithmetic operations, uses a diverse set of real-valued signals that are derived from separate band signals that make up the input signal. The derived real signals are passed through configurable non-linear transformations, which may be adapted during operation, and which may be efficiently implemented using lookup tables. The outputs of the non-linear transformations serve as gain terms for a set of complex signals, which are functions of the input, and which are summed to compute the pre-distorted signal. A small set of the complex signals and derived real signals may be selected for a particular system to match the classes of non-linearities exhibited by the system, thereby providing further computational savings, and reducing complexity of adapting the pre-distortion through adapting of the non-linear transformations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NanoSemi, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Megretski, Kevin Chuang, Yan Li, Zohaib Mahmood, Helen H. Kim
  • Patent number: 11165516
    Abstract: An output power linearization method, suitable for a calibration system, includes the following operations: providing an instruction signal, which corresponding to a currently ideal output power among multiple ideal output powers, to an emission module of the calibration system so that the emission module outputs a radio frequency (RF) signal with a practical output power according to the instruction signal; obtaining a feedback signal, by a feedback circuit of the calibration system, from an output terminal of the emission module, and calculating a feedback output power from the feedback signal; calculating an output difference between the currently ideal output power and the feedback output power; if an absolute value of the output difference is larger than an absolute value of a feedback error of the feedback circuit, adjusting a present gain of the emission module so that the practical output power approaches the currently ideal output power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuan-Hao Tseng, Ka-Un Chan, Po-Chih Wang
  • Patent number: 11159129
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a time-delay invariant predistortion approach to linearize power amplifiers in wireless RF transmitters. The predistortion architecture is based on the stored-compensation or memory-compensation principle by using a combined time-delay addressing method, and therefore, the architecture has an intrinsic, self-calibrating time-delay compensation function. The predistortion architecture only uses a lookup table to conduct both the correction of non-linear responses of a power amplifier and the compensation of any time-delay effects presented in the same system. Due to the time-delay invariant characteristic, the predistortion design has a wider dynamic range processing advantage for wireless RF signals, and therefore can be implemented in multi-carrier and multi-channel wireless systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: DALI WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Dali Yang, Jia Yang
  • Patent number: 11152900
    Abstract: A multistage amplifier includes: N amplifiers (N?2), a (k+1)th amplifier cascaded to a kth amplifier (1?k?N?1), and each amplifier being configured to amplify a multicarrier signal; and an extraction circuit including an input and an output, the input being connected to an output of a jth amplifier (1?j?N?1), and the output providing a compensation signal to an input of a (j+1)th amplifier or an output of the (j+1)th amplifier. The extraction circuit includes a filter circuit connected to the output of the jth amplifier that extracts a distortion frequency component of n times a differential frequency f2?f1 (n?1), a phase shifter cascaded to the filter circuit that shifts a phase of the component, and a gain adjustment circuit cascaded to the phase shifter that adjusts an amplitude of the component and generates the compensation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Hashinaga
  • Patent number: 11075621
    Abstract: A delay circuit includes a state transition section configured to start state transition based on a trigger signal and output state information indicating the internal state and a transition-state acquisition section configured to latch and hold the state information. The state transition section includes a tapped delay line in which a plurality of delay elements are coupled, a logical circuit configured to generate a third signal based on a first signal based on the trigger signal and a second signal, which is an output signal of the delay element, and a synchronous transition section configured to count an edge of the third signal. The state information is having an output signal of the synchronous transition section and an output signal of the tapped delay line. A humming distance of the state information before and after the state transition is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: Masayoshi Todorokihara
  • Patent number: 11057004
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method for digital predistortion of multiband signals that includes receiving a plurality of input signals respectively associated with multiple radio frequency (RF) bands, with the plurality of input signals occupying an input frequency span corresponding to a difference between a maximum frequency in a highest of the multiple RF bands and a minimum frequency in a lowest of the multiple RF bands. The method further includes frequency shifting at least one signal from the plurality of input signals to produce condensed shifted signals, each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of input signals, occupying a condensed frequency span smaller than the input frequency span, and processing the condensed shifted signals, including applying digital predistortion to the condensed shifted signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NanoSemi, Inc.
    Inventors: Helen H. Kim, Alexandre Megretski, Yan Li, Kevin Chuang, Zohaib Mahmood, Yanyu Huang
  • Patent number: 11018704
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for correcting distortion of radio signals A transmit radio signal corresponding to an output of a transmitting radio signal processing system is obtained. A pre-distorted radio signal is then generated by processing the transmit radio signal using a nonlinear pre-distortion machine learning model. The nonlinear pre-distortion machine learning model includes model parameters and at least one nonlinear function to correct radio signal distortion or interference. A transmit output radio signal is obtained by processing the pre-distorted radio signal through the transmitting radio signal processing system. The transmit output radio signal is then transmitted to one or more radio receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: DeepSig Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy James O'Shea, James Shea
  • Patent number: 10992326
    Abstract: Disclosed are implementations, including a method comprising selecting a location of a selection buffer (that stores observed output samples produced by a signal chain) according to a pseudo-random buffer selection process, and accessing at least one observed output sample generated in response to corresponding input samples (to the system) and/or intermediary samples (outputs of a digital compensator) produced by a compensator of the system. The method further includes computing an approximation of a sub-gradient value computed according to a stochastic gradient process to derive a sub-gradient of an error function representing a relationship between the observed output sample, and the input and/or intermediary samples, computing updated values for the compensator coefficients based on current values of the coefficients and the approximation of the sub-gradient value, and replacing, at a time instance determined independently of the buffer selection process, content of part or all of the selection buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: NanoSemi, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Megretski, Yan Li, Zohaib Mahmood, Kevin Chuang, Helen H. Kim
  • Patent number: 10931320
    Abstract: Disclosed are digital predistortion implementations, including a method that includes obtaining a first set of digital predistortion (DPD) non-linear functions for controlling operation of a digital predistorter of a wireless device operating on a received at least one input signal directed to a power amplification system comprising a transmit chain with at least one power amplifier that produces output with non-linear distortions. The method further includes determining an expanded set of DPD non-linear functions comprising the first set of DPD non-linear functions and additional one or more sets of DPD non-linear functions derived based on the first set of DPD non-linear functions and on operating condition parameters associated with operation of the wireless device, and configuring the digital predistorter with DPD coefficients determined for the expanded set of the DPD non-linear functions based on observed samples of the transmit chain responsive to the at least one input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NanoSemi, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Megretski, Kevin Chuang, Yan Li, Zohaib Mahmood, Helen H. Kim
  • Patent number: 10924068
    Abstract: A method for digital predistortion (DPD) calibration in a wireless communication device is provided that includes transmitting, by transmission circuitry of the wireless communication device, a plurality of pulses, where each pulse corresponds to an amplitude step in a pattern of amplitude steps, where the amplitude steps are separated by silence gaps, receiving each pulse in receiver circuitry of the wireless communication device, generating, by an accumulator component of the wireless communication device, an accumulated sample for each pulse based on a plurality of samples output by the receiver circuitry for the pulse, and computing, by a processor of the wireless communication device, amplitude dependent gain (AM/AM) and amplitude dependent phase shift (AM/PM) values for each accumulated sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Raghu Ganesan, Harish Kumar Ramesh, John Roshan Samuel Chandran, Lakshmi Bala Krishna Manoja Vinnakota
  • Patent number: 10873301
    Abstract: A dual-input voltage memory digital pre-distortion (mDPD) circuit and related ET apparatus are provided. In examples discussed herein, an ET apparatus includes an amplifier circuit(s) configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal based on an ET voltage. A tracker circuit is configured to generate the ET voltage based on a number of target voltage amplitudes derived from a number of signal amplitudes of the RF signal. However, the tracker circuit can cause the ET voltage to deviate from the target voltage amplitudes due to various inherent impedance variations, particularly at a higher modulation bandwidth. In this regard, a dual-input voltage mDPD circuit is configured to digitally pre-distort the target voltage amplitudes based on the signal amplitudes such that the ET voltage can closely track the target voltage amplitudes. As such, it is possible to mitigate ET voltage deviation, thus helping to improve overall linearity performance of the ET apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Frederic Chiron
  • Patent number: 10826447
    Abstract: An apparatus of a transmitter and method are provided, the apparatus comprising a processor that calculates a supply voltage (SV) value (SVV) to provide as an SV for a power amplifier (PA) of the transmitter for transmissions during a transmission time slot (TS). When the SV<an envelope tracking (ET) threshold (ETT), then the processor configures the PA to transmit a signal in an average power tracking (APT) mode that maintains the SV at the SVV during the TS. When the SV?ETT, and an APT condition is met, then the processor configures the PA to transmit the signal in the APT mode. When the SV?ETT, and the APT condition is not met, then the processor transmits by an adjustment to the SVV to track an amplitude modulation envelope during the TS in an ET mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Andrea Camuffo, Sandro Pinarello
  • Patent number: 10797737
    Abstract: A distortion compensation device includes a generating unit, a calculation unit, a conversion unit, and a distortion compensation unit. The generating unit generates, from an output signal of a power amplifying unit that amplifies transmission signals having a plurality of different bands, a superimposed signal in which the transmission signals having the different bands have been superimposed. The calculation unit calculates, based on the superimposed signal, a coefficient indicating a forward characteristic of nonlinear distortion of the power amplifying unit associated with each of the transmission signals having the different bands. The conversion unit converts the coefficient calculated by the first calculation unit to a coefficient indicating an inverse characteristic of the nonlinear distortion of the power amplifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoya Ota, Toshio Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10742263
    Abstract: Communication devices and methods are provided which enable communication both with modulo receivers and legacy receivers. Different types of precodings are used in a joint precoding to reduce crosstalk between communication connections to all receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Lantiq Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 10630323
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure introduce transmit chain asymmetry to meet tighter specifications of a band on one side of a spectrum while sacrificing emissions margin of a band on the opposite side of the spectrum. One example apparatus generally includes a distortion module configured to generate an input signal, and an amplifier coupled to the distortion module and configured to generate an amplified signal based on the input signal. In certain aspects, the input signal is generated such that a power of the amplified signal at a first bandwidth is skewed relative to a power of the amplified signal at a second bandwidth, the first and second bandwidths being adjacent to a main channel bandwidth of the amplified signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Castro Spring, Sanjay Avasarala
  • Patent number: 10547337
    Abstract: A radio frequency front-end circuit performs, in a communication band made up of a plurality of communication channels within a particular frequency band used in a system, wireless communication through a use channel selected from among empty communication channels in the plurality of communication channels, the radio frequency front-end circuit including a transmission-side amplifier circuit and a transmission circuit both serving as a transmission-side circuit that produces, from a transmitted signal after being subjected to a predistortion process, a transmitted signal corresponding to the use channel, and a frequency variable filter serving as a tunable filter that attenuates a radio frequency signal of a spurious wave at least in an alternate adjacent channel relative to the use channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Horita, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Patent number: 10530402
    Abstract: A circuit and apparatus for filtering harmful harmonics is disclosed. The circuit and apparatus include a power amplifier core that uses equally sized inverter based amplifiers. The amplifier core cells provide uniform load to all phases of a fundamental frequency to cancel all harmonics at an output. The power amplifier stages are driven into nonlinearity, and the combination of harmonics is performed at the output by varying series connected capacitors. The harmonic combination is performed at the outputs, leaving no further scope of nonlinearity in the signal chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Sudipto Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 10523159
    Abstract: A pre-distorter that both accurately compensates for the non-linearities of a radio frequency transmit chain, and that imposes as few computation requirements in terms of arithmetic operations, uses a diverse set of real-valued signals that are derived from the input signal. The derived real signals are passed through configurable non-linear transformations, which may be adapted during operation, and which may be efficiently, implemented using lookup tables. The outputs of the non-linear transformations serve as gain terms for a set of complex signals, which are functions of the input, and which are summed to compute the pre-distorted signal. A small set of the complex signals and derived real signals may be selected for a particular system to match the classes of non-linearities exhibited by the system, thereby providing further computational savings, and reducing complexity of adapting the pre-distortion through adapting of the non-linear transformations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: NanoSemi, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Megretski, Yan Li, Kevin Chuang, Zohaib Mahmood, Helen H. Kim
  • Patent number: 10469109
    Abstract: In certain aspects of the present disclosure, a method for wireless communication comprises predistorting a first signal based on a set of coefficients to generate a first predistorted signal, outputting the first predistorted signal for a first transmission to a receiving device, and receiving a first feedback signal from the receiving device, wherein the first feedback signal provides feedback of a first receive signal at the receiving device corresponding to the first transmission. The method also comprises determining whether to store the set of coefficients in a memory based on the received first feedback signal, and storing the set of coefficients in the memory based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Alecsander Petru Eitan
  • Patent number: 10432236
    Abstract: A front-end module, which uses a carrier aggregation method in which communication is performed by simultaneously using Band 8 and Band 3, includes an antenna switch module that switches connections between an antenna and a plurality of signal paths, a first circuit that is connected to a Band 8 signal path, and a second circuit that is connected to a Band 3 signal path and is electromagnetic-field coupled with the first circuit. A signal including a Band 3 frequency component that propagates from the signal path to the signal path via the antenna switch module and a signal including a Band 3 frequency component that propagates from the signal path to the signal path via the first circuit and the second circuit have a phase-shifted relationship with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Ueno
  • Patent number: 10394198
    Abstract: A transmitter for wireless energy transmission includes: a transmission device for generating an alternating magnetic field, a determination device for providing a signal which indicates an object in the area of the transmission device, and a control device for limiting the strength of the alternating field on at least three different levels based on the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Mack, Guenter Lohr, Marcin Rejman
  • Patent number: 10326361
    Abstract: A low dropout regulator that produces an output includes a comparison circuit, configured to compare a signal representative of the output and a reference signal to produce a comparison result. The low dropout regulator also includes a loop controller, coupled to the comparison circuit, configured to generate an output circuit control signal based at least in part on the comparison result. The low dropout regulator also includes an output circuit, comprising two or more output stages, configured to adjust a number of active output stages of the two or more output stages based on the output circuit control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Nien-Hui Kung, Chia-Hua Chou, Yen-Hsun Hsu
  • Patent number: 10303881
    Abstract: A domain-specific hardwired symbolic communications machine is described that processes information via the hardwired mapping of symbols from one or more domains onto other such domains, computing and communicating with improved security and reduced power consumption because it has no CPU, no Random Access Memory (RAM), no instruction registers, no Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), no operating system (OS) and no applications programming. The machine provides web services by recognizing valid requests based on the processing of symbols and the validating of those symbols according to various domains. In some embodiments the requests may conform or be related to, for example, Long Term Evolution (LTE), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or fourth generation (4G) wireless technology. Further, in some embodiments, the machine has no unconstrained RAM into which malware may insert itself and needs no anti-virus software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Hackproof Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Mitola, III
  • Patent number: 10291270
    Abstract: A circuit and apparatus for filtering harmful harmonics is disclosed. The circuit and apparatus include a power amplifier core that uses equally sized inverter based amplifiers. The amplifier core cells provide uniform load to all phases of a fundamental frequency to cancel all harmonics at an output. The power amplifier stages are driven into nonlinearity, and the combination of harmonics is performed at the output by varying series connected capacitors. The harmonic combination is performed at the output, leaving no further scope of nonlinearity in the signal chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Sudipto Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 10243595
    Abstract: Disclosed are a detection method and device for a digital intermediate frequency processing system. The method comprises: forming and transmitting excitation data to a digital intermediate frequency processing system; collecting detection data formed by processing the excitation data by the digital intermediate frequency processing system; and performing a bit-by-bit comparison on the detection data and reference data to form a detection result. Further provided is a computer storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sanechips Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiuhong Ren, Boyuan Fan
  • Patent number: 10148296
    Abstract: A transmitter includes a signal generator arranged to generate a digital baseband signal representative of a signal for transmission; a digital predistortion, DPD, circuit configured to predistort the digital baseband signal; and a signal adjustment circuit operably coupled to the signal generator and the DPD circuit and configured to receive the generated signal and apply shaping to adjust the predistortion applied to the envelope of the generated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: MediaTek, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Matsuura, Paul Cheng Po Liang
  • Patent number: 10116340
    Abstract: A circuit and apparatus for filtering harmful harmonics is disclosed. The circuit and apparatus include a power amplifier core that uses equally sized inverter based amplifiers. The amplifier core cells provide uniform load to all phases of a fundamental frequency to cancel all harmonics at an output. The power amplifier stages are driven into nonlinearity, and the combination of harmonics is performed at the output by varying series connected capacitors. The harmonic combination is performed at the output, leaving no further scope of nonlinearity in the signal chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Sudipto Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 10103755
    Abstract: Systems and methods for radio frequency digital predistortion in a multi-band transmitter are disclosed. In one embodiment, the multi-band transmitter includes a digital upconversion system configured to digitally upconvert digital input signals to provide digital radio frequency signals. Each digital input signal and thus each digital radio frequency signal corresponds to a different band of a multi-band transmit signal to be transmitted by the multi-band transmitter. The multi-band transmitter also includes a radio frequency digital predistortion system configured to digitally predistort the digital radio frequency signals to provide predistorted digital radio frequency signals, and a combiner configured to combine the predistorted digital radio frequency signals to provide a multi-band predistorted digital radio frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Mark Edward Rollins
  • Patent number: 10075201
    Abstract: An adaptive controller for a nonlinear system includes a Volterra filter having a transfer function defined by P coefficients. The controller includes an alignment/compensation circuit, which aligns the input samples to the output samples of the nonlinear system. The controller generates a P×P matrix using at least one of input samples to, or output samples from the nonlinear system and normalizes each element of the P×P matrix using a respective normalization factor. The controller generates and solves a system of P linear equations from the P×P matrix and a P×1 matrix derived from input and output samples of the nonlinear system using Cholesky decomposition that may include Fast Inverse Square Root operations and forward backward elimination to generate P values. The controller multiplies each of the P values by an inverse of a respective one of the normalization factors to generate the P coefficients for the Volterra filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Avi Gazneli, Michael Kerner, Itay Almog, Amit Knoll
  • Patent number: 10009075
    Abstract: Here, operation for 3D beam forming is disclosed. UE, receiving reference signals from one or more base stations (eNBs), may report feedback information comprising precoding matrix information to the one or more eNBs. The precoding matrix information indicates a first type precoding matrix for a horizontal direction and a second type precoding matrix for a vertical direction. eNBs may transmit signals, which are precoded based on a third type precoding matrix for beam forming both on the horizontal direction and the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Heejeong Cho, Hyeyoung Choi, Ilmu Byun, Kungmin Park