Abstract:
The invention relates notably to a method for clipping a wideband signal in order to eliminate signal overshots having an amplitude above a predefined threshold before submitting the wideband signal to a power amplifier. According to the invention, the method comprises the steps of: i. subtracting from the wideband signal filtered pulses in phase the said wideband signal, each filtered pulse corresponding to an overshot, the amplitude of each filtered pulse being dependent on the amplitude of the corresponding overshot and on the predefined threshold. ii. repeating at least two successive iterations of step i on said wideband signal.
Abstract:
The invention relates notably to a method for scaling peak power amplitudes in a signal at a transmitter before submitting said signal to a power amplifier. According to the invention, the method consists in calculating scaling factors for a pulse train comprising a group of at least two adjacent peaks which power exceed a predefined threshold (TCLIP), said scaling factor for one peak taking into account an influence on said peak which occurs if at least one other peak of said group is applied a scaling factor; applying said calculated scaling factors to said respective peaks of said group.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a direct conversion receiver for down-converting a received multi-carrier signal comprising at least a first and a second carrier signal at image carrier frequencies to a base band resulting in that the first carrier signal includes an image signal of said second carrier signal. Further, the known direct conversion receiver comprises at least a first and a second digital down-converter unit for separating the first and the second carrier signal from the down-converted multi-carrier signal after digitization. In order to make such receivers less complex and adjust them for fast time varying szenarios it is proposed to provide an error estimating unit to said receivers for calculating a compensating coefficient representing the quota and/or the phase position of the image signal of the second carrier signal being included in the first carrier signal and to remove the undesired image signal in response to said compensating coefficient.
Abstract:
A method of optimizing the performance of a mobile radio system transmitter using processing operations including discrete Fourier transform (DFT) computation, filtering in the frequency domain, inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) computation, overlapping of processed sample blocks, and oversampling, wherein, for a given input sampling frequency, a given order of magnitude of the output sampling frequency, and a given order of magnitude of the required frequency resolution, the length of the DFT and the length of the IDFT are chosen in such a manner as to enable the finest possible choice of the percentage overlap and/or the oversampling factor.