Tesla, Inc.

Plx Technology, Inc.

Gaurav Chandra

Brijesh Tripathi

Adnan Esmail

Prashant Joshi

Sundar Balasubramaniam

Dariush Dabiri

Moshe Malkin

A method of communication in a vehicle network is provided. An example method includes transmitting a network allocation map in a TDMA cycle, indicating reservation of time slots in the TDMA cycle. The method further includes transmitting a synchronization signal in the TDMA cycle, to synchronize the timing of nodes in the vehicle network. Each of the reserved time slots is identified by at least a network ID of a transmitting node in the vehicle network, and a slot type comprising one of a low latency traffic slot, and a bulk traffic slot. Further, the low latency traffic slots are repeated in the TDMA cycle at least as frequently as a guaranteed QoS latency parameter. Further, the bulk traffic slots are at least as long as a guaranteed QoS throughput parameter.

Vehicle network and method of communication

Embodiments of a method and apparatus of reducing transmit signal components of a receive signal of a transceiver are disclosed. One method includes generating a transmit signal by passing a pre-driver transmit signal through a transmit driver. An echo cancellation signal is generated by passing the pre-driver transmit signal through an echo cancellation driver. A residual echo signal is generated by passing a pre-driver residual echo cancellation signal through a residual echo cancellation driver. The transceiver simultaneously transmits the transmit signal, and receiving the receive signal. At least a portion of an echo signal of the receive signal is canceled by summing the echo cancellation signal with the receive signal. At least another portion of the cancellation echo signal of the receive signal is canceled by summing the residual echo cancellation signal with the receive signal.

Reducing transmit signal components of a receive signal of a transceiver

Embodiments of a method and apparatus of reducing transmit signal components of a receive signal of a transceiver are disclosed. One embodiment of an apparatus includes a transceiver that simultaneously transmits a transmit signal and receives a receive signal. The transceiver includes a transmit DAC that generates the transmit signal based on a transmit digital signal stream. The transmit DAC includes a plurality of transmit DAC circuit elements, and a plurality of transmit DAC switches that control which of the plurality of transmit DAC circuit elements contribute to generating the transmit signal. The transceiver additionally includes an echo cancellation DAC that generates an echo cancellation signal based on the transmit digital signal stream. The echo cancellation DAC includes a plurality of echo cancellation DAC circuit elements, and a plurality of echo cancellation DAC switches that control which of the plurality of echo cancellation DAC circuit elements contribute to generating the echo cancellation signal. A data controller receives the transmit digital signal stream, and controls both the plurality of transmit DAC switches and the plurality of echo cancellation DAC switches. A canceller (summer) cancels at least a portion of the receive signal by summing the echo cancellation signal with the receive signal.

Reducing transmit signal components of a receive signal of a transceiver using a shared DAC architecture

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Gaurav Chandra