Intel Corporation

Apple Inc.

Intel IP Corporation

Ashoke Ravi

Ofir Degani

Hasnain Lakdawala

Georgios Yorgos Palaskas

Rotem Banin

Stefano Pellerano

Krishnamurthy Soumyanath

Paolo Madoglio

Benjamin Jann

Elan Banin

William Li

Igal Kushnir

Cho-Ying Lu

Tawfiq Musah

Binta M Patel

Satwik Patnaik

Khoa Nguyen

Dinesh Somasekhar

Gadi Shor

Erkan Alpman

Ronen Kronfeld

Shilpa Talwar

Kameran Azadet

Hosein Nikopour

Bryan K Casper

Wook Bong Lee

Michael Genossar

Claudio Da Silva

Zdravko Boos

Debabani Choudhury

Albert Molina

Sidharth Dalmia

Duncan Kitchin

Saku Lahti

Oner Orhan

Emanuel Cohen

Mikko S Komulainen

Jayprakash Thakur

Eren Sasoglu

Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe

Assaf Ben-Bassat

Bernd-Ulrich Klepser

Masoud Sajadieh

Menashe Soffer

Kunal Datta

Richard B Nicholls

Ana M Yepes

Run Levinger

Omer Asaf

Moshe Teplitsky

Chintan S Thakkar

Eshel Gordon

Josef Hagn

Nebil Tanzi

Ron Pongratz

Baljit Singh

Ran Shimon

Peter Sagazio

Amit Freiman

Eyal Goldberger

Eran Gerson

Shmuel Ravid

Yossi Tsfati

Shuhei Yamada

Kaushik Dasgupta

Noam Kogan

Nir Weisman

Resti Montoya Moreno

Ehud Reshef

Harry G Skinner

Jaydeep P Kulkarni

Ganesh Balamurugan

Eytan Mann

Seong-Youp Suh

Gregory W Chance

Nati Dinur

Sebastian Sievert

Roy Amel

Tzu-Chien Hsueh

Soumyanath Krishnamurthy

Mostafa Elmala

Ali Azam

Sourav Saha

Hiroyuki Ito

Alexandros Margomenos

Daniel B Schwartz

Markus Schimper

Roya Doostnejad

Keith A Holt

Shahar Gross

Tae Young Yang

Chen Kojokaro

Brandon R Davis

Stanley K Ling

Hongtao Xu

Nader Rohani

Avishay Friedman

Niranjan Karandikar

Mohammed Alam

Nevo Idan

For example, an apparatus may include a baseband controller configured to control a plurality of dual-polarization Radio Heads (RHs) to communicate a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission, the baseband controller configured to control a first dual-polarization RH of the plurality of dual-polarization RHs to communicate a first spatial stream of the MIMO transmission with a horizontal-polarization via one or more first dual-polarization antenna elements of the first dual-polarization RH, and to control a second dual-polarization RH of the plurality of dual-polarization RHs to communicate a second spatial stream of the MIMO transmission with a vertical-polarization via one or more second dual-polarization antenna elements of the second dual-polarization RH.

Apparatus, system and method of communicating a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmission with polarization

A circuit for suppressing undesired sub-harmonics includes a plurality of mixers, wherein the plurality of mixers are connected in parallel; a plurality of local oscillator signals (LO), wherein each of the plurality of LOs is associated with one of the plurality of mixers; an input to receive a plurality of phases of a driving clock, wherein each of the plurality of phases is a sub-harmonic of the driving clock, and wherein each phase of the driving clock is distributed to one of the plurality of mixers; wherein the plurality of mixers are configured to suppress one or more of the plurality of phases of the driving clock and amplify a desired phase of the driving clock.

Methods and devices for selecting a desired sub-harmonic of a high-frequency clock

A phased array may include a clock stage configured to generate shifted clock signals. Each shifted clock signal may include a different phase. The phased array may also include a beamforming stage configured to generate a beamformed signal that includes a beam formed in a direction based on summed signals. In addition, the phased array may include slices. Each slice may include a filter stage and a feedback stage. The filter stage may be configured to generate a corresponding summed signal by filtering a portion of blocker and noise interference in a corresponding receive signal based on blocking signals and the shifted clock signals. The feedback stage may be configured to generate the blocking signals based on the shifted clock signals and the corresponding summed signal. The blocking signals may be representative of the blocker and noise interference in the corresponding receive signal.

Interleaved sub-sampling phased array receiver

A digital clock multiplier (DCM) circuit including: a plurality of power amplifier (PA) rows, wherein each PA row comprises a plurality of cascade switched capacitor power amplifiers (SCPA) unit cells configured to: receive a phase shift of a driving clock phase; and one or more processors configured to: disable of one or more of the plurality of cascade SCPA unit cells based on a frequency of the phase shift; generate an output signal for each of the cascade SCPA unit cells; and combine the output signal for each of the cascade SCPA unit cells to generate an PA row output signal.

Methods and devices for digital clock multiplication of a clock to generate a high frequency output

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.

Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods

An antenna module and communication device containing the antenna module are disclosed. The antenna module is disposed in a metal cavity. The antenna module includes a switched beam mm-wave antenna array having radiating elements separated by less than a wavelength of the radiating elements. The array is fed by a single transceiver chain. The array is disposed at the focal length of a low-profile mm-wave lens configured to steer the beam. A sub-10 GHz antenna is disposed closer to the opening of the cavity than the lens. The lens is a Fresnel Zone Plate lens having a focal length of less than about the wavelength of the beam, or a Saucer lens having shells of different refractive indexes and having a profile that is more than 6 times smaller than a Luneburg lens with a same focal length.

Low-profile single-chain beam-steerable MMW lens antenna

Techniques are described related to digital radio control and operation. The various techniques described herein enable high-frequency local oscillator (LO) signal generation using injection locked cock multipliers (ILCMs). The techniques also include the use of LO signals for carrier aggregation applications for phased array front ends. Furthermore, the disclosed techniques include the use of array element-level control using per-chain DC-DC converters. Still further, the disclosed techniques include the use of adaptive spatial filtering and optimal combining of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) to maximize dynamic range in digital beamforming systems.

Local oscillator (LO) generation for carrier aggregation in phased array front ends

Techniques are disclosed to allow for a switched capacitor digital power amplifier (PA) that operates using high supply voltage levels beyond twice the maximum voltage rating for any of the transistor terminals such as Vds/Vdg/Vsg.

High voltage digital power amplifier

A method and apparatus for generating a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signal. The apparatus may include a first oscillator configured to generate a first oscillation signal, a frequency modulator configured to generate a frequency-modulated oscillation signal from the first oscillation signal based on a sequence of control words, a frequency modulation code generator configured to generate a sequence of frequency modulation codes for generating an FMCW waveform, and a frequency multiplier configured to generate the FMCW signal by up-converting the frequency-modulated oscillation signal. The sequence of control words is generated based on the sequence of frequency modulation codes. The apparatus may include a second oscillator configured to generate a second oscillation signal, and a phase detector configured to detect a phase difference between the first oscillation signal and the second oscillation signal and generate an offset code based on the phase difference. The frequency modulator may be a digital-to-time converter.

Method and apparatus for generating frequency modulated continuous wave signal

Some demonstrative embodiments may include an apparatus including an integrated Radio Head (RH), the integrated RH including an antenna; a transceiver chain to transmit a Radio Frequency (RF) transmit (Tx) signal via the antenna, and to receive an RF Receive (Rx) signal via the antenna; a Physical layer (PHY) time-domain (TD) processor configured to generate a digital PHY TD Rx signal based on the RF Rx signal, and to cause the transceiver chain to transmit the RF Tx signal based on a digital PHY TD Tx signal; and a digital interface to communicate the digital PHY TD Tx signal and the digital PHY TD Rx signal over a digital link.

Apparatus, system and method of wireless communication by an integrated radio head

A radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) configured to generate a synthesized clock includes a phase locked loop (PLL) configured to divide down a clock to a non-harmonic frequency; a plurality of multi-phase injection locked clock multipliers (ILCM) directly connected to a plurality of transceiver chains; wherein the PLL is further configured to distribute a divided down clock to at least one of the plurality of multi-phase ILCMs; wherein the plurality of multiphase ILCMs are configured to select a phase of and multiply the divided down clock to synthesize a desired harmonic frequency of the clock and suppress an undesired harmonic frequency of the clock.

Methods and devices for mitigating pulling in a fractional local oscillator signal generation scheme

Injection-locked clock-multiplication for mixer local oscillator (LO) generation

A communication device may include a millimeter wave (mm-wave) antenna array having antenna elements, a mm-wave element (e.g. lens), and one or more transceivers (e.g. first and second transceivers). The mm-wave lens may be configured to adjust the first beam and the second beam as the first and second beams pass through the mm-wave lens. The first transceiver can selectively couple to the antenna elements, the first transceiver being configured to drive a first selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a beam from the selected first antenna element. The second transceiver may selectively couple to the antenna elements, the second transceiver being configured to drive a second selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a second beam from the selected second antenna element.

Lensing systems for wireless communications

In various aspects, a radio communication device is described including a housing, a plurality of radiohead circuits attached to the housing, baseband circuitry connected to the plurality of radiohead circuits via a digital interface; and one or more processors configured to select one or more radiohead circuits of the plurality of radiohead circuits for communication with another radio communication device to fulfill one or more predefined selection criteria with respect to a quality of a communication with the other radio communication device using the one or more selected radiohead circuits and to control the baseband circuitry to perform communication with the other radio communication device using the one or more selected radiohead circuits.

Radio communication devices and methods for performing radio communication

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