Qualcomm Incorporated

Eunmo Kang

Le Nguyen Luong

Koorosh Akhavan

Rajapaksa Senaratne

Vincent So

Faramarz Sabouri

James Young Hurt

RaviKiran Gopalan

Mahbod Mofidi

Thomas Cargill

Yossef Tsfaty

Ashish Banthia

Dongsik Kim

Paul Denboer

Seyed Mohammad Ehsan Hosseini

Eugene Yang

Xiao Deng

Vikram Meka

This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, related to low power techniques for a BLE device during a scanning state. The BLE device is configured to scan for a preamble of a packet while in a first power mode and detect when a bit of the preamble is received. Upon detecting that the bit of the preamble is received, the BLE device switches from the first power mode to a second power having a higher operating power for the BLE device than the first power mode. The switch in power modes occurs while the preamble is being received or immediately after the preamble is received and before an access address of the packet is received. The BLE device, while in the second power mode, then scans for the access address of the packet.

Low power techniques for bluetooth low energy in scanning state

Systems and methods are directed to phase modulation of polar coordinates in a transmitter of wireless signals, to achieve high transmit power levels while meeting spectral mask and EVM requirements. An input signal is mapped to a sequence of modulation frequency (e.g., O-QPSK to MSK) to generate a mapped signal. A digital frequency shaping filter is applied to the mapped signal to generate a shaped signal. An adaptive rounding algorithm is applied to the shaped signal to generate a reduced bit-width signal. A digital frequency synthesizer is applied to the reduced bit-width signal to generate an analog waveform for transmission.

Frequency shaping and adaptive rounding for O-QPSK and MSK transmission in polar coordinates

A method for communications is described. The method includes determining a symbol timing drift elimination amount for a received signal. The method further includes eliminating part of the symbol timing drift by adjusting a reference clock for the modem. Determining the symbol timing drift elimination amount may be based on at least one of a symbol timing drift estimate, a symbol timing error, a packet acquisition indicator, a packet validity indicator, demodulated bits or a carrier presence indicator.

Systems and methods for symbol time tracking

A method for setting an initial gain and an initial offset for an automatic gain and offset controller (AGOC) is described. The method includes determining a gain level at which a signal does not under-saturate or over-saturate an input to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) by performing a binary search over a fixed set of gain levels while an offset is fixed. The method also includes determining an offset correction to bring an unmodulated carrier level at an output of the ADC to a target level. The method may also include updating the gain and the offset in response to changes in a signal level.

Systems and methods for gain and offset control

A method for inductively-coupled communications is described. The method includes receiving a signal. The method also includes analyzing the signal to estimate a symbol timing error. Estimating the symbol timing error may include comparing a location of a pause, a low-to-high or a high-to-low transition in the received signal with an ideal location of a pause or a transition. The method further includes adjusting symbol timing to correct for the symbol timing error.

Systems and methods for timing recovery in near-field communication

Methods, systems, and devices are described for an adaptive demodulator that supports multiple modes. An FM signal may be received at a demodulator and parameters corresponding to the FM signal may be identified. Connections between multiple modules within the demodulator may be configured, based at least in part on the parameters, to select one of multiple demodulation modes supported by the demodulator to demodulate the FM signal. The modes may include a phase differencing mode, a phase-locked loop (PLL) mode, a frequency-compressive feedback (FCF) mode, and/or a quadrature detector mode. The parameters may include one or both of a signal strength of the FM signal and a maximum frequency deviation of the FM signal. Based on the parameters, one or more signals may be generated to configure the connections within the demodulator. A switch from one mode to another may occur when one of the parameters breaches a threshold value.

Adaptive FM demodulator supporting multiple modes

In some examples, the receiver apparatus includes a receiver interface configured to receive a signal from a transmitter and output an input sequence of M-bit samples. The apparatus may also include a quantizer circuit configured to convert the input sequence of M-bit samples into an output sequence of N-bit samples, wherein M and N are positive integer numbers, and wherein M is greater than N. The apparatus may further include a decoder circuit configured to decode the output sequence of N-bit samples.

Apparatus and method of receiver architecture and low-complexity decoder for line-coded and amplitude-modulated signal

A method for communication between near field communication (NFC) devices includes generating a transmission signal, an in-phase local oscillator signal, and a quadrature local oscillator signal from edges of an input clock signal. The method further includes mixing a load modulated signal with the in-phase local oscillator signal to generate an in-phase baseband signal. The method further includes mixing the load modulated signal with the quadrature local oscillator signal to generate a quadrature baseband signal. The method further includes adjusting a phase delay of at least one of the in-phase local oscillator signal or the quadrature local oscillator signal in response to a first signal strength of the in-phase baseband signal and a second signal strength of the quadrature baseband signal.

Apparatus and method for reducing phase noise in near field communication device signaling

In a wireless near field communication (NFC) system, a target, such as a smart card, can communicate with an initiator, such as a card reader, by load modulating a radio frequency (RF) signal generated by the initiator. When two or more targets load modulate the RF signal generated, 'collisions' can occur with the load modulation. Apparatus and methods detect the presence or absence of collisions in a lower layer or physical layer and report the presence of detected collisions to an upper layer for further handling.

Systems and methods for detecting data collisions for a near field communication system

In a wireless communication system, an initiator, such as a card reader, can communicate with a target, such as a smart card or other device emulating a smart card, by amplitude modulating a radio frequency signal. In a receiver, levels of samples of a digital baseband signal of the amplitude modulated signal can vary. Apparatus and methods associate a received sample with a hard or sliced output state (such as +1, 0, or &#x2212;1) and update a value associated with the hard output state for accurate slicing of the samples. This permits the use of hard symbols in further processing rather than soft samples, which can dramatically reduce the complexity of circuitry.

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