Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080280566 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS WITH BUILT-IN CHANNEL EMULATOR/NOISE GENERATOR - The invention provides a wireless communication apparatus with performance simulation function. The wireless communication apparatus includes a channel emulator and at least one noise generator; therefore a real transmission environment can be simulated inside the wireless communication apparatus to thereby accelerate the testing process. Moreover, as this invention sets a random noise generator in front of the FFT, an approximate AWGN effect will be generated when the wireless communication apparatus is under test. | 11-13-2008 |
20100046408 | Apparatus and Method for Power-Saving in Multiple Antenna Communication System - A multiple-antenna transceiver in the present invention includes a frame controller and circuitry for transmitting and receiving. The transmitting component includes a sequence selection circuit, a MIMO modulation and coding circuit, and numerous TX RFE and AFE circuits. The receiving component includes a MIMO demodulation and decoding circuit, a sequence separation circuit, and numerous RX RFE and AFE circuits. The frame controller can enable and disable the TX and RX RFE and AFE circuits individually so as to reduce power consumption of the whole system. | 02-25-2010 |
20100061489 | Power Saving Apparatus and Method of Multiple-Antenna Receiver with Variable Rate - A multiple-antenna receiver can enable and disable receive radio frequency front-end and analog front-end circuits of specific antenna receiving routes according to a predetermined scheme during the receive data phase. The predetermined scheme calculates signal quality indices of the receiving route antennas by means of a preamble sequence, and derives the modulation and coding scheme and the number of spatial streams via the information provided by a header sequence. Indications of the signal quality indices are compared with threshold values to determine which receiving routes are to be turned on and which receiving routes are to be turned off. | 03-11-2010 |
20100074352 | SPHERE DECODING METHOD APPLIED TO MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT (MIMO) CHANNEL - A sphere decoding method applied to a MIMO channel is provided. Multiple constellation points of an n | 03-25-2010 |
20100074361 | SPHERE DECODING METHOD APPLIED TO MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT (MIMO) CHANNEL - A sphere decoding method applied to a MIMO channel is provided. T signals transmitted via the MIMO channel are received. A first triangular matrix corresponding to a channel matrix is generated and mapped from the complex domain into the real domain to obtain a second triangular matrix. A first zero-forcing soft-output solution corresponding to a first estimation layer is found, and multiple preferred points P(1) are obtained. Multiple n-th zero-forcing soft-output solutions corresponding to an n-th estimation layer are obtained according to multiple preferred points P(n−1), and multiple preferred points P(n) are obtained according to PEDs of multiple n-th constellation points. Multiple 2T-th zero-forcing soft-output solutions are obtained according to the preferred points P(2T−1) and multiple preferred points P(2T) are obtained correspondingly. The preferred point P(2T) corresponding to the least PED is mapped from the real domain into the complex domain to generate an optimal solution of the T signals. | 03-25-2010 |
20100074375 | SPHERE DECODING METHOD APPLIED TO MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT (MIMO) CHANNEL - A sphere decoding method applied to a MIMO channel is provided. Multiple constellation points of an n | 03-25-2010 |
20100074376 | SPHERE DECODING METHOD APPLIED TO MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT (MIMO) CHANNEL - A sphere decoding method applied to a MIMO channel is provided. Multiple constellation points of an n | 03-25-2010 |
20100080204 | WLAN TRANSCEIVING SYSTEM - A WLAN transceiving system, which comprises: a plurality of antennas; a plurality of receiving circuits, wherein each one of receiving circuits is coupled to one of the antenna to receive a input signal from the antennas; and a plurality of transmitting circuits, for outputting one of an output signal and an amplified output signal, wherein at least one of the transmitting circuit includes a power amplifier and utilizes at least one of the power amplifier to amplify an output signal to generate the amplified output signal, where a number of the power amplifiers is less than a number of the antennas. | 04-01-2010 |
20120087431 | ANTENNA DIVERSITY APPARATUS AND ANTENNA DIVERSITY METHOD - The present invention provides an antenna diversity apparatus and an antenna diversity method. The antenna diversity apparatus comprises: a plurality groups of antennas, a switching unit, a demodulating unit, an antenna switch selecting unit, and a control unit, wherein each group of the plurality groups of antennas comprises at least an antenna, and the control unit can comprises: a receiving signal quality detecting unit, a packet detecting unit, and an antenna decision unit. The antenna decision unit can be realized by hardware, firmware, or software, and the antenna switch selecting unit can be realized by hardware. The antenna diversity apparatus and the antenna diversity method provided by the present invention can switch antennas fast to avoid the defect of occurring burst error to reduce transmitting data rate, and switch to proper antennas fast when variation of the data transmission channels occurs. | 04-12-2012 |
20120094622 | ANTENNA DIVERSITY SYSTEM - An antenna diversity system having a non-interrupt function is provided. The antenna diversity system includes: a plurality of antennas, a plurality of radio frequency (RF) circuits, and a signal processing unit. The RF circuits are respectively coupled to the antennas, wherein each RF circuit is utilized for operating in one of a plurality of channels. The signal processing unit is coupled to the RF circuits, and utilized for determining whether a signal quality value of at least one of the antennas lower than a threshold to generate a determining result, and determining whether to change the channel of at least one of the RF circuits according to the determining result, so as to make at least two of the RF circuits operating in a same channel of the channels. | 04-19-2012 |
20120108185 | MULTI-MODE WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER AND MULTI-MODE SWITCHING METHOD THEREOF - A multi-mode wireless transceiver and a multi-mode switching method thereof are disclosed to provide at least one wireless transceiving interface capable of dynamically switching between multiple frequency bands. The wireless transceiver comprises: a first RF transceiving circuit for transceiving RF signals of a first frequency band; a second RF transceiving circuit for transceiving RF signals of a second frequency band; a first frequency synthesizer and a second frequency synthesizer for generating a first carrier of the first frequency band and a second carrier of the second frequency band respectively; and a switching circuit for outputting the first carrier to the first RF transceiving circuit, and for determining to output one of the first and second carriers to the second RF transceiving circuit according to a control signal. | 05-03-2012 |
20120108301 | Apparatus and Method for Power-Saving in Multiple Antenna Communication System - A multiple-antenna transceiver in the present invention includes a frame controller and circuitry for transmitting and receiving. The transmitting component includes a sequence selection circuit, a MIMO modulation and coding circuit, and numerous TX RFE and AFE circuits. The receiving component includes a MIMO demodulation and decoding circuit, a sequence separation circuit, and numerous RX RFE and AFE circuits. The frame controller can enable and disable the TX and RX RFE and AFE circuits individually so as to reduce power consumption of the whole system. | 05-03-2012 |
20130051438 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT SUPPORTING ANTENNA DIVERSITY - A wireless communication circuit is disclosed including: a transceiver for transmitting and receiving signals; and a control circuit coupled with the transceiver for controlling a switching circuit to switch the transceiver to a first antenna set for a first time period and then to switch the transceiver to a second antenna set for a second time period in a test period. If a throughput statistic of the first antenna set with respect to the test period is greater than that of the second antenna set, the control circuit configures the switching circuit to switch the transceiver to the first antenna set after the test period. | 02-28-2013 |
20130176878 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT SUPPORTING ANTENNA DIVERSITY - A wireless communication circuit for a wireless communication device having a plurality of antennas is disclosed. The wireless communication circuit includes: a transceiver for receiving and transmitting network packets; a control circuit for controlling the switching circuit to switch the transceiver among the antennas so that the transceiver receives the preamble of a first network packet; and a receiving signal strength detector for detecting the receiving signal strength value of respective antennas in respective receiving periods during the reception of the preamble conducted by the transceiver. If the receiving signal strength value of each antenna is less than a predetermined threshold, the control circuit selects an antenna with the maximum receiving strength value as a target antenna and controls the switching circuit to couple the transceiver to the selected target antenna so that the transceiver receives the rest of the first network packet through the target antenna. | 07-11-2013 |
20140307827 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING DATA TRANSMISSION - A communication device includes a plurality of host control interfaces, an interface detector, and a transmitter. The plurality of host control interfaces selectively connect to a connection interface of a host. The interface detector is coupled to the plurality of host control interfaces and utilized for determine an interface specification of the connection interface to generate a detection result. The transmitter is coupled to the interface detector and supports a plurality of transmission power levels. The transmitter is utilized for determining a plurality of transmission configurations, and selecting one of the transmission configurations to communicating with a receiver, wherein each of the transmission configurations determines a transmission power level configuration of the transmitter. | 10-16-2014 |