Abstract:
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of estimating a location of a mobile device. For example, a location estimation entity (LE) may be configured to receive from a server location-based location-enabling source (LES) information identifying one or more location-enabling sources based on a location area of a mobile device, and to communicate with the one or more identified location-enabling sources information for estimating the location of the mobile device.
Abstract:
A real-time optimizing information transfer and interrupt event scheduling scheme for a communications transceiver incorporating multiple processing elements. The scheme is particularly applicable for use in UMTS based communications transceivers, i.e. W-CDMA transceivers adapted for User Equipment (UE). The interrupt scheduling scheme of the present invention is operative to perform the scheduling of interrupts used to configure a data transfer device to effect the timely transfer of data from a hardware based chip rate processor to a memory buffer for subsequent processing by software running on a DSP or other processor platform.
Abstract:
A reduced complexity correlator that enables the re-use of the most complex portions of a correlator, namely the multiplier and adder. The correlator of the present invention is especially well-suited for use in CDMA and W-CDMA spread spectrum communication systems that require the use of numerous correlators in their operation. Multiple input samples, multiple codes and integration results are stored in shift registers and circularly shifted and clocked out at appropriate clock rates such that the multiplication and accumulation steps of the correlation process are synchronized.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for performing a radix-4 fast Hadamard transform (FHT) with reduced complexity and for directly determining the maximum output of a fast Hadamard transform using either a radix-4 transform or radix-2 transform without actually generating the outputs. The radix-4 fast Hadamard transform is implemented using only seven operations. To find the maximum value of the output of a fast Hadamard transform and its corresponding index, the N-1 stages of a conventional N stage fast Hadamard transform are computed while a find-maximum stage is inserted in place of the Nth stage. The invention also provides a methodology for constructing fast Hadamard transforms of the form H2N using radix-4 FHTs and permuting the results to achieve the correct outputs.
Abstract:
A novel and useful apparatus for and method of DC offset compensation for use in a communications receiver. The invention is operative to calculate an estimate of the DC offset which is subsequently subtracted from each input sample to generate compensated samples. The training sequence portion of the uncompensated input samples is used to generate an estimate of the DC offset. The vector used in calculating the offset estimate is pre-calculated for several channel lengths and stored in memory. An estimate of the channel is generated which provides the channel length and the location in the input sample buffer of the first training sequence sample to be used in calculating the offset estimate. The channel length is used to determine the number of training sequence samples to be used and to select one of the previously calculated vectors.