Texas Instruments Corporation

Brad Kramer

Nirmal Chindhu Warke

Swaminathan Sankaran

Hassan Omar Ali

Baher S Haroun

Srinath Hosur

Robert Floyd Payne

Gerd Schuppener

Martin J Izzard

Conventional routers employ a wired backplane that employs 'long reach' serializer/deserializer (SerDes) links, but this type of architecture is complicated, costly, and uses a considerable amount of power. To address some of these issues, a new wireless backplane architecture is provided here. This wireless backplane employs direct millimeter wave links between line cards that replaces the convention, wired switching fabric.

Wireless router system

An apparatus is provided. First and second hybrid couplers are provided with each having a first port, a second port, a third port, a fourth port and with each being substantially curvilinear. The fourth ports of the first and second hybrid couplers are first and second isolation port that are mutually coupled. The first port of the first hybrid coupler is configured to carry a first portion of a differential signal, and the first port of the second hybrid coupler is configured to carry a second portion of the differential signal.

Terminationless power splitter/combiner

A method is provided. A multi-amplitude signal is received and downconverted so as to generate I and Q signals using a local oscillator signal. The I and Q signals are equalized, and the equalized I and Q signals are digitized. First and second gains are adjusted with the second and first digital signals, respectively, and applied to the equalized I and Q signals, respectively. The difference between the first and second amplified signals is determined, and an error signal is generated from the difference between the first and second amplified signals. The local oscillator signal is then adjusted with the error signal.

Carrier recovery in amplitude and phase modulated systems

Wireless bridge IC

Systems and methods are provided for calibration of a transmitter system modulator, wherein local oscillator nodes of a mixer are held at first and second voltages, and a first offset value is determined. The terminals are then held at third and fourth voltages and a second offset value is determined. The first and second offset values are then averaged to provide a calibration offset value for the modulator.

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