摘要:
A circuit that increases the efficiency of a radio frequency mobile telephone unit is disclosed. When the signal strength between the base station and the mobile unit is below a predetermined signal strength level, the power amplifier is turned on and the transmitter circuit of the mobile unit fully amplifies the RF signal. However, when the signal strength between the mobile telephone unit and the base station is above a predetermined signal strength level, the power amplifier is deactivated and bypassed from the transmitter circuitry, thereby conserving the battery power of the mobile unit.
摘要:
A feedforward linearizer for amplifying an input signal comprises a signal cancellation circuit which has a first branch and a second branch. A first amplifier provided in the first branch receives the input signal intended to be amplified and generates an output signal received by a signal cancellation vector modulator. A signal cancellation adder receives the signal generated by the signal cancellation vector modulator and the input signal via the second branch and provides an error signal. The feedforward linearizer also comprises an error cancellation circuit that has a first branch and a second branch. An error cancellation adder in the first branch receives the output signal provided by the first amplifier and generates the output signal of the linearizer. An error cancellation vector modulator in the second branch receives an error signal provided by the signal cancellation adder and provides an error adjusted signal to a second auxiliary amplifier. The second auxiliary amplifier provides an input signal to the error cancellation adder. A digital signal processor provides a signal cancellation adjustment signal, .alpha., to the signal cancellation vector modulator and an error cancellation adjustment signal, .beta., to the error cancellation vector modulator respectively, such that the output signal of the signal cancellation adder is a signal that substantially represents the error components provided by the first amplifier, and the output signal of the error cancellation adder is an amplified version of the input signal, with substantially no internmodulation components.
摘要:
A cellular communication signal receiver receives a desired signal in the presence of at least one co-channel interference signal. The receiver comprises a channel estimator configured to receive a plurality of training signal samples to estimate the finite impulse response to the desired signal and the co-channel interference signal. The finite impulse response estimates having a predetermined number of channel taps defining the length of the desired channel and the length of co-channel interference channel. A Viterbi decoder is coupled to the channel estimator, and configured to receive the desired and co-channel interference signals. The channel estimator generates channel tap estimates. A power calculator is coupled to the channel estimator and configured to estimate the power of the estimated channel taps. A joint channel trimmer is coupled to the power calculator and configured to maintain a joint channel length, such that the desired signal channel length plus the co-channel interference channel length have a fixed size that defines the number of states the Viterbi decoder allocates to the desired signal and the co-channel interference signal.
摘要:
A feedforward linearizer includes a signal cancellation circuit and an error cancellation circuit. The signal cancellation circuit includes a tap delay line, that delay the input signal by a predetermined time delay so as to provide several delayed versions of the input signal. Each delayed version of the input signal is weighted by a tap coefficient. The weighted signals are then added together and fed to the power amplifier. The tap coefficients are derived such that the signals traveling through the upper and lower branch of the signal cancellation loop are aligned and that the output signal of the power amplifier is equalized.
摘要:
A dynamic power amplifier advantageously employed in a wireless terminal for transferring and receiving signals from a base terminal includes an input amplifier adapted to receive an input signal having a given power signal level corresponding to the distance of said wireless terminal to the terminal and adapted to provide an amplifier output signal having a given power output signal level. The dynamic amplifier further includes a power sensor configured to receive the power output signal and to generate a power indication signal corresponding to the power output signal, and a converter adapted to receive the power indication signal in order to generate a biasing signal corresponding to the power indication signal. The biasing signal is applied to the input amplifier so that the operating bias point of the power amplifier varies as a function of the power indication signal.
摘要:
An indoor wireless communications system using two-way active-antenna repeaters to distribute signals received from external signal sources within an office, and to extend the range of cordless phone units in use there, is disclosed. The repeaters provide menu-selectable phase-shifting, selectable receiver sensitivity and transmitter power, and selectable signal format conversion to provide added privacy and to prevent interference with communication links in use by third parties within the building. Pattern selection is done by empirical adjustment of an antenna pattern suited to the general floor plan of the area served.
摘要:
In accordance with one embodiment of the present intention, an adaptive feedback controller is configured to substantially reduce an error control signal defined by the difference between a command signal and the output signal of a controlled device. The adaptive controller comprises a step generator circuit configured to provide a control signal which is employed to vary the input signal received by the controlled device, The control signal is substantially in the shape of a ramp signal having a given slew rate. An adaptive slew rate computation circuit is coupled to the step generator so as to provide a slew rate compensation signal to the step generator to increase the slew rate of the control signal, when the controlled device is responding to a substantially fast varying input signal. The slew rate compensation circuit decreases the slew rate of the control signal, when the controlled device is responding to a slow varying input signal.
摘要:
An apparatus includes a dielectric slab having first and opposing second major surfaces. A planar antenna element is located on the first major surface. A via formed through the dielectric slab is conductively connected to the antenna element. A plurality of solder bump pads is located on the second major surface and is configured to attach the dielectric slab to an integrated circuit.
摘要:
An optical path is configured to propagate an input optical signal. A plurality of electrodes are configured to produce a plurality of discrete phase shifts on the optical signal. An output optical signal is phase-shifted with respect to the input optical signal by a sum of the plurality of discrete phase shifts.