Broadcom Corporation

Microunity Systems Engineering, Inc.

Broadcom Homenetworking, Inc.

Alan G Corry

Jason A Trachewsky

Eric Jon Ojard

Kevin H Peterson

Larry C Yamano

Edward H Frank

Tracy D Mallory

John T Holloway

Timothy B Robinson

Craig Stephen Forrest

Dane Snow

Venkat Kodavati

Srinivasa H Garlapati

Robert A Sutherland

Christopher J Hansen

Craig C Hansen

Joseph Paul Lauer

Henry S Ptasinski

Yongbing Wan

Haixiang Liang

Raymond Hayes

Gregory H Efland

Gong-San Yu

Manoj Puri

Graham Y Mostyn

Yuanjie Chen

Jean-Yves Michel

Lin Yin

Jeff Z Guan

Ilya Stomakhin

Nino Pietro Ferrario

George A Papanicolaou

Jay Pattin

Meera Prahlad

A multimode wireless communication device includes a first radio section operably to convert outbound analog baseband signals into first outbound RF signals and to convert first inbound RF signals into inbound analog baseband signals when the wireless communication device is in a first mode of operation and a second radio section that performs similar functions in a second mode of operation. A diplexer section includes a first diplexer for coupling to a first antenna, and a second diplexer for coupling to a second antenna, and that selectively couples the first radio section to one of the first antenna and the second antenna, and that selectively couples the second radio section to one of the first antenna and the second antenna. First and second T/R switches are coupled to the first and second diplexers and to respectively, to the first and second radio sections.

Multimode wireless communication device

Provided is a system and method for a modem including one or more processing paths. Also included is a number of interconnected modules sequentially arrayed along the one or more paths. Each module is configured to (i) process signals passed along the paths in accordance with the sequence and (ii) implement predetermined functions to perform the processing. Further, each of the modules has a particular degree of functional programmability and the degrees of functional programmability monotonically vary in accordance with the sequence.

Asymmetric digital subscriber line modem apparatus and methods therefor

A multimode wireless communication device includes a first circuit having a digital baseband processing module to convert outbound data into outbound digital baseband signals and to convert inbound digital baseband signals into inbound data, an analog to digital converter module to convert inbound analog baseband signals into the inbound digital baseband signals, and a digital to analog converter module to convert the outbound digital baseband signals into outbound analog baseband signals. A second circuit includes a first radio section and a third circuit includes a second radio section. A diversity antenna arrangement includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a first diplexer coupled to the first antenna, and a second diplexer coupled to the second antenna, that selectively couples the first radio section to one of the first antenna and the second antenna, and that selectively couples the second radio section to one of the first antenna and the second antenna.

A method for accurate signal detection begins by receiving a radio frequency signal, which is then converted into baseband signals. The processing then continues by performing a normalized auto correlation on the down-converted baseband signal to produce a normalized auto correlation signal. The process continues by performing a periodic pattern detection on the down-converted baseband signal to produce a normalized detected periodic signal. The process then continues by comparing the normalized auto correlation value with an auto correlation threshold and by comparing the normalized detected periodic signal with a set of thresholds. When the normalized auto correlation value compares favorably with the auto correlation threshold and when the normalized detected periodic signal compares favorably with the set of thresholds, the down-converted baseband signal is indicated to be a valid signal.

Accurate signal detection in a wireless environment

A receiver circuit of the modem is coupled to receive a continuous analog signal from a communication channel. This analog signal includes both packet and idle information. A burst mode protocol is also provided, in which packets of digital information are modulated by a transmitter circuit of the modem, thereby converting the packets of digital information into analog signal bursts of discrete duration. These analog signal bursts are transmitted from the transmitter circuit to a telephone line. A receiver circuit monitors the telephone line to detect the analog signal bursts. Upon detecting the presence of the analog signal bursts on the telephone line, the receiver circuit demodulates the analog signal bursts using full processing capabilities of the receiver circuit. However, upon detecting the absence of the analog signal bursts on the telephone line, the demodulating function of the receiver circuit is disabled. The burst mode protocol enables multi-drop and multi-cast operation, as well as reducing required DSP resources.

Method and apparatus for reducing signal processing requirements for transmitting packet-based data

A radio frequency integrated circuit includes a transmitter section, and a receiver section. The receiver section includes a low noise amplifier, down conversion module, an orthogonal-normalizing module, and a baseband processor. The low noise amplifier is operably coupled to amplify the inbound RF signals to produce amplified inbound signals. The down conversion module is operably coupled to convert the amplified inbound RF signals into baseband in-phase components and baseband quadrature components. The orthogonal normalizing module is operably coupled to obtain a 1and 2coefficients that are based on at least one of power of the baseband in-phase components, power of the baseband quadrature components, and/or cross-correlation between the baseband in-phase component and baseband quadrature components. The orthogonal normalizing module then normalizes an orthogonal relationship between the in-phase components and quadrature components based on the 1and 2coefficients to produce normalized in-phase components and normalized quadrature components.

Orthogonal normalization for a radio frequency integrated circuit

A Viterbi decoding demapping scheme for a wireless communications device processor substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. By using log and antilog techniques, simplified multiplication and division operations in the branch metric calculation may be performed. A fully integrated receiver circuit with Viterbi decoder with branch metric computation consumes less circuit space and power than conventional solutions.

Reduced size and power demapper for viterbi decoding

A radio frequency transmitter includes a digital baseband and coding module, an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) module, a complex digital filter, a complex digital-to-analog converter and a radio frequency modulation module. The digital baseband and coding module is operably coupled to convert outbound data into outbound symbols in accordance with a baseband encoding protocol. The IFFT module is operably coupled to convert the outbound symbols into a complex time domain sample sequence. The complex digital filter is operably coupled to filter the complex time domain sequence such that signal strength of outbound RF signals in an exclusion RF band is at or below a specified signal strength with negligible attenuation on in-band signal strength.

RF transmitter having improved out of band attenuation

A multimode wireless communication includes a digital baseband processing module, an analog to digital converter module, a digital to analog converter module, a first radio section, and a second radio section. The digital baseband processing module is operably coupled to convert outbound data into outbound digital baseband signals and to convert inbound digital baseband signals into inbound data. The analog to digital converter module is operably coupled to convert inbound analog baseband signals into the inbound digital baseband signals. The digital to analog converter module is operably coupled to convert the outbound digital baseband signals into outbound analog baseband signals. The first radio section is operably coupled to convert the outbound analog baseband signals into first outbound radio frequency (RF) signals and to convert first inbound RF signals into the inbound analog baseband signals when the wireless communication device is in a first mode of operation. The second radio section is operably coupled to convert the outbound analog baseband signals into second outbound RF signals and to convert second inbound RF signals into the inbound analog baseband signals when the wireless communication device is in a second mode of operation.

A method and signal therfor embodied in a carrier wave for sending information from transmit stations to receive stations over a transmission medium of a frame-based communications network. The information is sent in transmit frames having a frame format comprising a fixed rate header, followed by a variable rate payload, followed by a fixed rate trailer. The fixed rate header includes a preamble. The preamble has a repetition of four symbol sequences for facilitating power estimation, gain control, baud frequency offset estimation, equalizer training, carrier sensing and collision detection. The preamble also includes a frame control field. The frame control field has scrambler control information for frame scrambling initialization, a priority field to determine the absolute priority a transmit frame will have when determining access to the transmission medium, a payload encoding field which determines constellation encoding of payload bits in the variable rate payload, and a header check sequence for providing a cyclic redundancy check. The variable rate payload is transmitted pursuant to dynamic adjustable frame encoding parameters for improving transmission performance for a transmit frame being transmitted from a transmitting station to a receiving station. The header also includes a destination address field, a source address field and an ethertype field.

Transceiver method and signal therefor embodied in a carrier wave for a frame-based communications network

A method of determining a start of a transmitted frame at a receiver on a frame-based communications network. A received transmitted frame is filtered using filter coefficients matched to a preamble symbol sequence to provide a correlation sequence. The correlation sequence is low-pass filtered and delayed to provide a delayed low-pass filtered correlation signal. The delayed low-pass filtered correlation signal is compared with the low-pass filtered correlation signal and a fixed predetermined threshold to provide a correlation difference indicator. Energy of the received transmitted frame is detected and the energy is low-pass filtered to provide a low-pass filtered energy signal. The low-pass filtered correlation signal is compared with the low-pass filtered energy signal to provide a correlation peak indicator. A logical-AND of the correlation difference indicator and the correlation peak indicator is formed to determine a match/no match comparison indicative of the start of a transmitted frame.

Method of determining a start of a transmitted frame in a frame-based communications network

A method of determining a collision between two or more transmitting stations at one of the transmitting stations on a frame-based communications network. A transmitted frame header includes a cyclic preamble wherein identical copies of a preamble symbol sequence are transmitted sequentially. A collision is declared if an estimate of error power in second and third copies of the preamble minus an estimate of error power in third and fourth copies of the preamble exceeds a first threshold, or a maximum value of the norm of each term of a source field error vector minus a greater of the estimate of the error power in the second and third copies of the cyclic preamble and the estimate of the error power in the third and fourth copies of the preamble exceeds a second threshold.

Method of determining a collision between a plurality of transmitting stations in a frame-based communications network

A method and apparatus for obtaining a channel estimate and a baud frequency offset estimate for a communications channel in a communications system. The communications system has a transmitter for transmitting to a receiver over the communications channel signals representing data appended to a preamble signal. The preamble signal is provided as a periodic plurality of preamble sequences, each preamble sequence being generated in accordance with:A signal representing the periodic plurality of preamble sequences is sent by a transmitter over the communications channel to a receiver and is received at the receiver as a received signal. The received signal is processed to determine from the received signal both a channel estimate in accordance with:wherein B represents a matrix of preamble symbol values, upsampled by four and zero-filled, and yand yare column vectors of received samples, and a baud frequency offset estimate &#x394;fin accordance with:wherein fis a baud frequency and fis a center frequency of the transmission signal.

Method and apparatus for efficient determination of channel estimate and baud frequency offset estimate

A method of determining an end of a transmitted frame at a receiver on a frame-based communications network. An end of frame format for the transmitted frame is provided having an end of frame plurality of symbols. A received transmitted frame is filtered using filter coefficients matched to the end of frame plurality of symbols to provide a correlation sequence low-pass filtered signal. A squared magnitude of the correlation sequence is computed. The squared magnitude of the correlation sequence is low-pass filtered to provide a low-pass filtered correlation signal. The low-pass filtered correlation signal is delayed to provide a delayed low-pass filtered correlation signal. The delayed low-pass filtered correlation signal is multiplied by a fixed predetermined threshold to provide a multiplied correlation signal. The multiplied correlation signal is compared with the low-pass filtered correlation signal to provide a match/no match comparison indicative of the possible end of a transmitted frame.

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