Abstract:
A single radio wireless communications device is contemplated in which the user equipment (UE) operates according to more than one radio access technology. The UE may operate preferentially according to a first radio access technology, and may switch to a different radio access technology at predetermined intervals to check for incoming calls. An error unit within the UE may provide frequency error estimates to a GPS unit during operation according to the first radio access technology based upon signals received in the first radio access technology, unless any time spent in the different radio access technology is longer that a predetermined duration. In response to the predetermined duration being met, the error unit may provide the frequency error estimation to the GPS unit based upon signals received in the different radio access technology.
Abstract:
A wireless communications method is provided. The method includes analyzing one or more channel conditions from a wireless communication and automatically adjusting a frequency tracking loop gain or a time tracking loop gain in view of the channel conditions.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus perform I/Q imbalance estimation and compensation using synchronization signals in LTE systems. Primary and secondary synchronization signals (P-SCH and S-SCH), which carry synchronization information, are embedded in each LTE frame, and are used for receiver I/Q imbalance estimation. Additionally, the performance may be significantly improved by optimally selecting the training data in I/Q imbalance estimation.
Abstract:
A receiver is an ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) -receiver and comprises a phase lock loop (PLL) for performing carrier tracking of a carrier in a received signal. The PLL includes a detector (160) comprising two pseudo-Hilbert filters (205, 215). The detector uses energy from both band edges of the received ATSC signal for driving the PLL.
Abstract:
A circuit for transmission and reception of multi-channel communications is disclosed. The transmitter path includes a digital modulation circuit receiving multiple channel binary data, and for each channel generating a digital representation of the data. A digital-to-analogue (D/A) conversion circuit (140-146) is provided for each data channel. Each D/A conversion circuit receives and converts respective channel digital representations to produce a resultant band limited analogue signal (148-154). The band limitation arises due to a characteristic of said channel digital representations. A bandpass filter (156-162) receives and filters each analogue channel signal. The band width to the start of the stop band of each bandpass filter is wider than a respective band limited analogue channel signal and wider than the Nyquist bandwidth arising from the sampling rate of said D/A conversion circuit. In this way, signal power in unwanted Nyquist zones is effectively removed. A frequency translation circuit (172-188) abuts the multiple channel bandpass filtered analogue signals in the frequency domain without any guard bands between adjacent channel signals.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of filtering a useful radio communication signal. According to the invention, one such method involves the use of a digital adaptive filter. The inventive method comprises a step involving the calculation of coefficients of the aforementioned digital adaptive filter, such as to provide a periodic update of said coefficients. The initialisation of the calculation step takes account of a set of coefficients specific to each radio communication device, which were pre-stored in a memory element provided for said purpose.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for adjusting the frequency of a VCO (46) at a receiver to synchronize the receiver with the transmitter by correlating (66) a synchronization code channel with training sequences to estimate positive and negative offsets (34, 36, 38) which are employed to estimate an error, which is then filtered. The filter (42) output provides voltage controlling the VCO. The same technique may be employed to control a numeric controlled oscillator (NCO) (46).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a receiver for estimation or compensation of phase imbalance or gain imbalance utilizing a QPSK modulation and a modulation scheme based on a complex scrambling code. According to the present invention the phase imbalance or gain imbalance is estimated or compensated before synchronisation. Thus, the phase imbalance and gain imbalance will not be able to introduce losses in the further phases of the connection.