Imec Vzw

Imec

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Ku Leuven R&d

Cetic Asbl

Panasonic Corporation

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

André Bourdoux

Kiyotaka Kobayashi

Hidekuni Yomo

Davide Guermandi

Marc Bauduin

Wim Van Thillo

Chunshu Li

Nadia Khaled

Yanxiang Huang

Vito Giannini

Jimmy Nsenga

The present disclosure relates to a digital frontend system for a radio device comprising a digital filter arranged for receiving digital quadrature signals and for filtering the digital quadrature signals and for outputting filtered quadrature signals; a conversion circuit arranged for receiving the filtered quadrature signals and for performing a rectangular to polar conversion of the filtered quadrature signals and for outputting a plurality of polar signals, characterized in that, the plurality of polar signals comprising an amplitude signal and quadrature phase signals.

Digital frontend system for a radio transmitter and a method thereof

The present disclosure relates to a modulation circuit and a method for suppressing energy content of spectral side lobes caused by high-frequency content present in a baseband signal, with the energy content of the spectral side lobes being outside an intended operational bandwidth in a modulated radio-frequency signal. An example circuit is configured to: receive a digital baseband signal, feed the digital baseband signal to a first and a second signal path, with the first signal path comprising a first mixer and the second signal path comprising a delay circuit and a second mixer. The first mixer and the second mixer may receive a same local oscillator signal, and may respectively provide a first radio-frequency signal and a second radio-frequency signal that are delayed with respect to each other. The example circuit is further configured to generate an output radio-frequency signal by combining the first and second radio-frequency signals.

Modulation circuit for a radio device and a method thereof

A method is disclosed for mixed analog/digital beamforming in a wireless communication system having transmit and receive antennas and analog front-ends connected to either the transmit antennas or the receive antennas. The method includes determining transmit and receive analog/digital beamforming coefficients by a) determining information representative of communication channels formed between a transmit antenna and a receive antenna, b) defining coefficients representing the transmit analog beamforming coefficients and the receive analog beamforming coefficients, c) determining a beamforming cost function using the information and the coefficients, the cost function taking into account the analog front-ends, d) computing an optimized set of transmit/receive analog beamforming coefficients by exploiting the cost function, e) deriving an estimate of the frequency responses of the communication channels using the information determined in process a, and f) deriving for each channel transmit/receive digital beamforming coefficients using the estimated frequency responses and the optimized beamforming coefficients.

Method and system for mixed analog/digital beamforming in wireless communication systems

Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems of transmitting data signals from at least one transmitting terminal with a spatial diversity capability to at least two receiving user terminals, each provided with spatial diversity receiving device. The methods and systems are useful, for example, in communication between terminals, e.g., wireless communication. In certain embodiments, transmission can be between a base station and two or more user terminals, wherein the base station and user terminals are each equipped with more than one antenna.

Method and apparatus for multi-user multi-input multi-output transmission

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