FILTERING CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATIONS FOR A DEVICE PAIR COMBINATION

    公开(公告)号:US20240333316A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18322639

    申请日:2023-05-24

    IPC分类号: H04B1/00 H04B1/12

    CPC分类号: H04B1/0028 H04B1/12

    摘要: A receiver includes: an analog front end (AFE) circuit to receive and process an incoming radio frequency (RF) signal comprising a packet; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to receive and digitize the processed incoming RF signal into a digital signal; a packet detector to detect the packet; an estimation circuit to determine a carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimate based at least in part on a preamble of the packet; an averager to determine a CFO average value for a plurality of packets communicated between a device pair combination of the receiver and a transmitter; and a compensation circuit to compensate for CFO between the device pair combination based at least in part on the CFO average value.

    WLAN receiver early power down based on center frequency offset detection

    公开(公告)号:US11627531B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-11

    申请号:US17106109

    申请日:2020-11-29

    发明人: Sriram Mudulodu

    IPC分类号: H04W52/02 H04L27/26

    摘要: A wireless local area network (WLAN) station receiver has a center frequency offset (CFO) estimator and an CFO table with an association between a CFO value from a recently received access point packet for which the station is associated according to 802.11. The receiver performs a comparison between the CFO estimate of the received packet and the CFO value from the CFO database, and powers the receiver down if the comparison exceeds a threshold. The threshold may be an absolute value in parts per million, or may include a time drift compensation component.

    Variable rate sampling for AGC in a bluetooth receiver using connection state and access address field

    公开(公告)号:US11206122B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-21

    申请号:US17106111

    申请日:2020-11-29

    发明人: Sriram Mudulodu

    IPC分类号: H04L7/00 H04B1/12 H03M1/12

    摘要: A Bluetooth receiver has an RF front end which has a gain control input, the RF front end converting wireless packets into a baseband signal which is coupled to the input of an analog to digital converter (ADC). A clock generator provides a clock coupled to the ADC, and an AGC processor performs an AGC process to provide a gain which places the baseband symbols in a range that is less than 90% of the input dynamic range of the ADC. When in a connected state, the clock generator provides a clock which is slower than is required to complete the AGC process during a preamble interval, and the AGC process uses a few initial bits of the address field. The remaining bits of the address field is compared with the corresponding address bits of the receiver to determine whether to receive the packet.

    System and method for secure wakeup in a communication system

    公开(公告)号:US10740498B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-11

    申请号:US15888415

    申请日:2018-02-05

    发明人: Sriram Mudulodu

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method and system of secure wakeup in a communication system. The method comprises: transmitting a predetermined wakeup code by a wakeup transmitter of a first node to a wakeup receiver of a second node using a first communication link; establishing a protocol for future wakeup codes periodically between the first node and the second node using a second communication link; wherein the wakeup code is updated based on at least one of: the protocol for future wakeup codes, a first function of time defined by protocol for future wakeup codes, a second function of number of wakeups defined by protocol for future wakeup codes; comparing the wakeup code received by the second node with the wakeup code sent by the first node; and if the wakeup code received by the second node matches a template wakeup code derived from a protocol for future wakeup codes, then the receiver wakes up; otherwise the receiver does not wakeup.

    Method and system of locating a wireless device using received signal strengths

    公开(公告)号:US10827451B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-03

    申请号:US16024836

    申请日:2018-06-30

    发明人: Sriram Mudulodu

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method and system of locating a wireless device using received signal strengths. The method comprising: determining a plurality of multiple sets of transmit beamforming weights corresponding to a plurality of access points (APs) associated with a plurality of time slots; transmitting a signal using said each of said plurality of multiple sets of transmit beamforming weights associated with said plurality of time slots by said each access point (AP) of said plurality of access points (APs); and generating a plurality of received signal strengths corresponding to said plurality of time slots associated with said each of said plurality of multiple sets of transmit beamforming weights by said each access point (AP) of said plurality of access points (APs) at any location.

    Variable rate sampling in a Bluetooth receiver using connection state

    公开(公告)号:US11689349B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-27

    申请号:US17541498

    申请日:2021-12-03

    发明人: Sriram Mudulodu

    摘要: A Bluetooth receiver has an RF front end which has a gain control input, the RF front end converting wireless packets into a baseband signal which is coupled to the input of an analog to digital converter (ADC). A clock generator provides a clock coupled to the ADC, and an AGC processor performs an AGC process to provide a gain which places the baseband symbols in a range that is less than 90% of the input dynamic range of the ADC. When in a connected state, the clock generator provides a clock which is slower than is required to complete the AGC process during a preamble interval, and the AGC process uses a few initial bits of the address field. The remaining bits of the address field is compared with the corresponding address bits of the receiver to determine whether to receive the packet.

    Delayed preamble detection for Bluetooth® receiver based on interferer metrics

    公开(公告)号:US11523340B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-06

    申请号:US17106112

    申请日:2020-11-29

    发明人: Sriram Mudulodu

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a receiver of a time slotted communication system. An RF front end has power applied after the start of a preamble or after the start of a header, or upon the start of a packet payload based on connection status, signal level, and interference level. Where the signal level is constant, the communication system is in a connected state, and the interference level is low, the system bypasses packet header destination address matching, or optionally, uses only the least significant bits of the header destination address for matching purposes.

    SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTENNA SELECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20240333371A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18325474

    申请日:2023-05-30

    发明人: Sriram Mudulodu

    IPC分类号: H04B7/08

    CPC分类号: H04B7/082

    摘要: In one example, an apparatus includes: an analog front end (RF) circuit to receive and process, from a first antenna and a second antenna, a radio frequency (RF) signal to obtain a digital signal, the RF circuit having a single RF signal processing path; a baseband circuit coupled to the RF circuit to process the digital signal, the baseband circuit to determine a first metric for a first packet of the RF signal received via the first antenna; and an antenna selection controller coupled to the baseband circuit, the antenna selection controller to cause the RF circuit to switch from receipt of the RF signal via the second antenna to receipt of the RF signal via the first antenna based at least in part on the first metric.