Abstract:
It is provided a method implemented by an electronic device comprising a near field communication (NFC) system. The system comprises an NFC contactless front end, a plurality of secure element interfaces to which a plurality of secure elements are connected, and a processing unit adapted to control the NFC contactless front end and the plurality of secure elements through the secure element interfaces. The method comprises sending (S10) an initialization command to all the secure elements through the secure element interfaces, upon exposure of the NFC contactless front end to an NFC reader. The method improves the field of near field communication.
Abstract:
A method of calibrating coexistence of several wirelessly communicating sub-systems within a wireless device wherein the wirelessly communicating sub-systems comprise several transmitters and several receivers which are interconnected through one or more interfaces, the method comprising:—activating one of the transmitters while maintaining the other transmitters off by causing said transmitter to transmit a first signal with a known set of characteristics;—measuring unwanted signal received at each receiver and originating from a coupling of said receivers with the activated transmitter;—storing coupling data derived from each of the measured unwanted signals in relation with the set of signal characteristics of the first signal and/or a set of unwanted signal characteristics, whereby forming a calibration database for adjusting operation of one or more transmitters and/or receivers to manage the coexistence of the plurality of wirelessly communicating sub-systems during normal operation of the wireless device.
Abstract:
The present subject matter discloses a method for antenna activity detection in multi-antenna communication devices. In one embodiment, the method comprises computing a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value for each of a plurality of antennas based on a sampled data associated with each of the antennas. The RSSI values may then be analyzed to identify an antenna having a highest RSSI value as a primary antenna and one or more antennas having the RSSI value less than the highest RSSI value as auxiliary antennas. Further, an RSSI difference for each of the auxiliary antennas is calculated and compared with a first threshold value to ascertain one or more potentially inactive antennas from among the auxiliary antennas. The potentially inactive antennas may then be further analyzed to identify one or more inactive antennas based at least in part on the RSSI value.
Abstract:
A new approach is disclosed concerning offset cancellation methods in analog to digital converters and analog to digital converters implementing the same. Such approach allows to efficiently cancel offset drifts in analog to digital converters.
Abstract:
A polar modulator (200) comprises a modulation generator (10) arranged to generate phase modulation data and amplitude modulation data; and a phase modulation stage (20) arranged to generate a phase modulated, PM, carrier signal and a PM clock signal, wherein the PM carrier signal has a PM carrier signal frequency and the PM clock signal has a PM clock signal frequency, and the PM carrier signal frequency is higher than the PM clock signal frequency, the PM carrier signal and the PM clock signal are phase modulated by the phase modulation data, and the phase modulation stage (20) comprises an adjustable delay stage (50) arranged to adjust a relative delay between the PM carrier signal and the PM clock signal to a target value. The polar modulator (200) further comprises a re-timing circuit (40) arranged to generate an amplitude modulation, AM, clock signal by re-timing the PM clock signal with the PM carrier signal; an amplitude modulation stage (30) arranged to employ the AM clock signal to clock the amplitude modulation data into the amplitude modulation stage (30) and arranged to amplitude modulate the PM carrier signal with the amplitude modulation data; an error detection stage (60) arranged to generate an indication of a magnitude of a first deviation of the AM clock signal from a target condition; and a control stage (70) arranged to select the target value of the relative delay by determining, by controlling the adjustment of the relative delay by the adjustable delay stage (50), a first value of the relative delay that maximizes the magnitude of the first deviation, and applying an offset to the first value of the relative delay.
Abstract:
A temperature sensor includes two branches, each branch having at least a first transistor and a second transistor connected as diodes and cascaded, so that an emitter of the first transistor is connected to a collector of the second transistor of the same branch. The temperature source also includes a current source configured to provide a current to the two branches, and an analog-to-digital convertor. The analog-to-digital convertor is connected to capture a voltage between emitters of the first transistors or of the second transistors, and is configured to convert said voltage to a digital temperature signal.
Abstract:
This invention deals with a method of communication comprising, at transmitting side, encoding, with one or more space time block codes chosen among a predetermined group of space time block codes (M1, M2, M3, M4), one or more series of several consecutive symbols in a header of a packet of data of a same data format (11 to 44), said space time block code or said succession of space time block codes being chosen so as to be representative of said data format (11 to 44).
Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention concern a temperature sensor comprising: a same oscillator (2) adapted to alternatively generate a temperature dependent output frequency in a sensing mode and a temperature independent output frequency in a calibration mode, a controller (1) of said oscillator (2), adapted to feed said oscillator (2) with at least a first input signal (VREF), and adapted to change said first input signal (VREF) so as to make said oscillator (2) switch between generating a temperature dependent output frequency and generating a temperature independent output frequency.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a passive, voltage mode transmitter assembly and method of operation. The passive, voltage mode transmitter assembly comprises a baseband filter configured to filter a source baseband signal, a harmonics filter, connected to the baseband filter, configured to remove harmonics from the filtered, source baseband signal, a passive, voltage mode mixer, connected to the harmonics filter, configured to up-convert an output of the harmonics filter to a radio signal, and a power amplifier, connected to the passive, voltage mode mixer, configured to amplify the radio signal.
Abstract:
The present subject matter discloses a system and a method for processing of channel coefficients of networks. In one embodiment, the method includes ascertaining at least one probable synchronization position of a received sequence and projecting, by oblique projection, at least one given noise basis vector spanning a given noise space onto the null space, so as to determine a channel impulse response at the at least one probable synchronization position. Based on a criterion related to the channel impulse response, a synchronization point for the received sequence is identified from the at least one probable synchronization position. The method also includes determining the noise contribution at the synchronization point and determining the noise coefficient of the at least one given noise basis vector based on the noise contribution so as to recover a signal substantially similar to the originally transmitted signal.