PULSE POSITION MODULATION CIRCUIT AND TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT

    公开(公告)号:US20200067496A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16521657

    申请日:2019-07-25

    申请人: FUJITSU LIMITED

    发明人: Ikuo Soga

    摘要: A pulse position modulation circuit includes a delay locked loop circuit configured to include a plurality of delay circuits coupled in a cascade, each of the plurality of delay circuits being configured to delay an input signal by a time width corresponding to a control signal so as to generate an output signal, a plurality of pulse generation circuits, each of which is configured to generate a pulse with a pulse width corresponding to a phase difference between a first signal and a second signal which have different phases from each other at different timings corresponding to states of the first signal and the second signal, each of the first signal and the second signal being the input signal or the output signal of the plurality of delay circuits, and a selection circuit configured to select pulses generated by the plurality of pulse generation circuits.

    TIME INSTANT REFERENCE FOR ULTRA WIDEBAND SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20190199398A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-27

    申请号:US16229746

    申请日:2018-12-21

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: Embodiments enable communicating Ultra Wideband (UWB) devices to collaborate by exchanging pulse shape information. The UWB devices use the pulse shape information to improve ranging accuracy. The improved ranging accuracy can be used in complex multipath environments where advanced estimation schemes are used to extract an arriving path for time-of-flight estimation. To determine the pulse shape information to be shared, some embodiments include determining location information of a UWB device and selecting the pulse shape information that satisfies regional aspects. The pulse shape information includes a time-zero index specific to a ranging signal that is used by UWB receivers to establish timestamps time-of-flight calculations. Some embodiments include measuring performance characteristics and selecting different pulse shape information based on the performance characteristics for improved accuracy.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ULTRA WIDEBAND IMPULSE RADIO TRANSMITTERS

    公开(公告)号:US20190165828A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-30

    申请号:US16261797

    申请日:2019-01-30

    摘要: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Today's leading edge modulated sinusoidal wave wireless communication standards and systems achieve power efficiencies of 50 nJ/bit employing narrowband signaling schemes and traditional RF transceiver architectures. However, such designs severely limit the achievable energy efficiency, especially at lower data rates such as below 1 Mbps. Further, it is important that peak power consumption is supportable by common battery or energy harvesting technologies and long term power consumption neither leads to limited battery lifetimes or an inability for alternate energy sources to sustain them. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for next generation applications to exploit inventive transceiver structures and communication schemes in order to achieve the sub nJ per bit energy efficiencies required by next generation applications.

    Pulse shaping interoperability protocol for ultra wideband systems

    公开(公告)号:US10171129B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-01

    申请号:US15681968

    申请日:2017-08-21

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: Embodiments enable communicating Ultra Wideband (UWB) devices to collaborate by exchanging pulse shape information. The UWB devices use the pulse shape information to improve ranging accuracy. The improved ranging accuracy can be used in complex multipath environments where advanced estimation schemes are used to extract an arriving path for time-of-flight estimation. To determine the pulse shape information to be shared, some embodiments include determining location information of a UWB device and selecting the pulse shape information that satisfies regional aspects. The pulse shape information includes a time-zero index specific to a ranging signal that is used by UWB receivers to establish timestamps time-of-flight calculations. Some embodiments include measuring performance characteristics and selecting different pulse shape information based on the performance characteristics for improved accuracy.

    Method and apparatus for spectrum spreading of a pulse-density modulated waveform

    公开(公告)号:US10148473B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-04

    申请号:US15860016

    申请日:2018-01-02

    摘要: Methods and systems are provided for spreading spectral density of digital-to-analog conversion output signals. A spreading circuit may spread a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) output signal over a particular frequency spectrum, with the spreading circuit receiving the DAC output signal; generating a plurality of internal control signals; and generating based on the DAC output signal and the one or more internal control signal a corresponding spread output signal. The Internal control signals may comprise at least a first control signal, generated based on sequences meeting at least one particular criterion, a second control signal, generated based on a feedback corresponding to an intermediate output generated within the spreading circuit. The spreading circuit may generate the first control signal based on zero-sum sequences. The spreading circuit may generate a stream of pulses based on the intermediate output, and may generate the feedback signal based on the stream of pulses.