Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for packet detection in a wireless local area network transceiver. An antenna is configured to receive a signal, having a carrier frequency. A mixer is configured to mix the received signal with one of the in-phase and quadrature components of the local oscillator to produce a corresponding one of an in-phase downconverted signal and a quadrature phase downconverted signal. A packet detector is configured to determine, from the one of the in-phase downconverted signal and the quadrature phase downconverted signal, if the signal contains a packet of data and instruct a set of components associated with an other of the in-phase and quadrature components of the local oscillator to activate to process the received signal.
Abstract:
A receiver is configured to use a first part of a received signal and a second part of the received signal to determine, respectively, a first estimate and a second estimate of the channel. The first and second parts carry information for decoding the received signal in a first protocol and in a second protocol, respectively. A final estimate of the channel is performed from the first and the second estimates. The final estimate is then used for decoding the data in the received signal according to one of the protocols. A carrier frequency offset from a set of symbols occurring prior to preamble symbols is determined and is corrected for decoding the preamble symbols. The corrected preamble symbols are then used for estimating the channel. In one embodiment, the carrier frequency offset is determined for the multiple antenna packet format used in the 802.11n standard.
Abstract:
A peak-to-average ratio (PAR) of a signal is reduced by clipping the signal at a threshold level and replacing desired frequency tones of the clipped signal with set of frequency tones of the signal. In one embodiment, the PAR of a signal is reduced by adding a peak cancellation signal to the received signal. The peak cancellation signal is generated by clipping the received signal at a threshold level and generating a difference signal by subtracting the received signal from the clipped signal. The peak cancellation signal thus generated is scaled by a scaling factor and added to the received signal to reduce the PAR of the received signal. The scaling factor is adjusted to maintain the desired quality of the received signal. In one embodiment, the PAR of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal may be reduced.