Abstract:
A method for dynamically adjusting the power consumption of a multi-carrier receiver and a multi-carrier receiver with dynamically power adjustment. The method includes receiving a multi-carrier signal, wherein the multi-carrier signal comprises a plurality of sub-carriers. Channel characteristics of each sub-carrier are estimated according to the demodulated multi-carrier signal. ICI is estimated from the demodulated multi-carrier signal. A system performance is detected. The estimated ICI is subtracted when the ICI exceeds an ICI threshold and the system performance is less than a system performance threshold. The demodulated multi-carrier signal is then equalized is based on the estimated channel characteristics, and the system performance is updated according to the equalized multi-carrier signal.
Abstract:
A method of generating a smoothed transport stream to an MPEG decoder for a diversity combine digital television receiver includes generating a plurality of synchronization clocks and demodulated signals according to a plurality of digital television signals received from a plurality of antennas; monitoring a signal quality associated with each of the digital television signals; combining at least demodulated signals having a signal quality being greater than a predetermined threshold to thereby form a combined signal; generating transport stream packets according to the combined signal; selecting a synchronization signal corresponding to a digital television signal having a signal quality being greater than a second predetermined threshold as a selected synchronization signal; and generating a smoothed transport stream having packets being uniformly spaced according to the transport stream packets and the selected synchronization signal.
Abstract:
A signal processing apparatus is provided. The signal processing apparatus includes an inner-code decoder, an outer-code decoder, and an error detection unit. The inner-code decoder decodes an input data stream to generate a first output data stream, wherein the input data stream is coded using a concatenated coding scheme including an outer coding and an inner coding. The outer-code decoder decodes the first output data stream to generate a second output data stream. The error detection unit performs an error detection upon the second output data stream to generate an error detection result. The decision logic sets error indication information of the second output data stream according to at least the error detection result.
Abstract:
A method for dynamically adjusting the power consumption of a multi-carrier receiver and a multi-carrier receiver with dynamically power adjustment. The method includes receiving a multi-carrier signal, wherein the multi-carrier signal comprises a plurality of sub-carriers. Channel characteristics of each sub-carrier are estimated according to the demodulated multi-carrier signal. ICI strength is estimated from the demodulated multi-carrier signal. A system performance is detected. The estimated ICI is subtracted when the ICI strength exceeds an ICI threshold and the system performance is less than a system performance threshold. The demodulated multi-carrier signal is then equalized is based on the estimated channel characteristics, and the system performance is updated according to the equalized multi-carrier signal.
Abstract:
A reset signal filter includes a power voltage detector and a reset signal detector or includes only one reset signal detector. The power voltage detector includes a comparators and a basic logic gates (e.g. AND gate, OR gate, inverter, etc). The reset signal detector includes a comparator, N flip flops connected in series, an AND gate, an OR gate, a multiplexer and an output flip flop. The reset signal filter receives a first reset signal generated by a power voltage detector or a Schmitt trigger buffer and utilizes N flip flops to register the signal level of the first reset signal for N clock periods. Then the reset signal filter determines if the first rest signal is changed during N clock periods, and outputs a second reset signal.
Abstract:
A data encoding and decoding method capable of lowering signal power spectral density for a binary data transmission system is disclosed. The data encoding method includes receiving binary data, performing adaptive mode tracking encoding for the binary data to generate a first encoding result, performing bit stuffing encoding for the first encoding result to generate a second encoding result, performing bit stationary state resuming encoding for the second encoding result to generate a third encoding result, and outputting the third encoding result.
Abstract:
A scaling apparatus set in a receiver is disclosed. The receiver includes a symbol-processing unit. The scaling apparatus includes a calculating unit and a scaling unit. The calculating unit estimates the signal strength of an input symbol and generates a scaling factor accordingly. The scaling unit scales an output symbol outputted from the symbol-processing unit according to the scaling factor. The output symbol is generated from the symbol-processing unit through processing the input symbol.
Abstract:
A multi-path receiving system is provided. The multi-path receiving system includes a multi-path analyzer, a channel estimator and an equalizer. The multi-path analyzer analyzes a channel impulse response (CIR) of the multi-path channel from the received stream. The channel estimator calculates a channel estimation result from the received stream. The channel estimator comprises a frequency domain interpolation filter performing channel estimation. The frequency domain interpolation filter consumes an amount of power according to the CIR result output from the multi-path analyzer. The equalizer equalizes the received stream based on the channel estimation result.
Abstract:
This present invention is a system and method to adjust a searcher threshold parameter of a RAKE receiver. The adjusting system includes a searcher, a power estimator, and a parameter control apparatus. When the searcher finds and acquires a new path signal, the power estimator will estimate the power of the new path signal and that of the other path signals. The parameter control apparatus will calculate and monitor the power ratio corresponding to the new path signal. If the power ratio remains smaller than a predetermined power ratio parameter for a first predetermined times, the parameter control apparatus will increase the value of the threshold parameter. If the power ratio remains unchanged for a second predetermined times, the parameter control apparatus will lower the value of the threshold parameter. After that, the searcher will acquire the path signals among the multipath signal being searched in accordance with the adjusted threshold parameter. With this adjusted threshold parameter, the present invention can improve the sensitivity of the searcher, acquire the correct path signals in various environments, and provide the correct position of the path signal to the RAKE receiver.
Abstract:
A method for performing frame synchronization in a WCDMA system includes first, correlating a received signal with a plurality of predetermined correlators to obtain a plurality of frame synchronization correlation results, then, coherently combining frame synchronization correlation results with a slot synchronization phase when a test phase difference is less than a threshold phase difference, or, coherently combining frame synchronization correlation results with a linear combination of slot synchronization phases when the test phase difference is greater than or equal to the threshold phase difference. The slot synchronization phase is determined by correlating the received signal with a slot synchronization sequence. Lastly, the method determines a frame boundary of the received signal based on the coherent combination results. The method accommodates for a changing signal to noise ratio to improve frame synchronization speed and accuracy.