Hitachi-kokusai Electric Inc.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Solid State Storage Solutions LLC

Renesas Technology Corp.

Masashi Naito

Kunihiro Katayama

Takayuki Tamura

Shigemasa Shiota

Kiyoshi Inoue

Satoshi Watatani

Takashi Yano

Takehiko Kobayashi

Takashi Okazaki

Takashi Okada

Naoki Hongo

Tetsuhiko Miyatani

Shigenori Hayase

Yasuhiro Takeuchi

Yasuhiro Takeda

Nobuaki Kawahara

Mitsuo Kubo

A storage device, including: a non-volatile semiconductor memory which is electrically erasable; a system interface coupled with an external host system; and a controller reading data from the non-volatile semiconductor memory and transmitting data to the host system via the system interface in response to a read command received by the system interface from the host system; and wherein the controller starts reading (N+n)th sector data from the non-volatile semiconductor memory, while the controller transmits Nth sector data that has been read from the non-volatile semiconductor memory to the host system via the system interface, in response to the read command for successive sector data.

External storage device and memory access control method thereof

A nonvolatile memory apparatus includes a control unit, a main storage medium with an electrically reloadable nonvolatile memory adapted to be operable even when faulty memory cells exist therein, and a storage region storing registered address values of faulty regions of the main storage medium containing the faulty memory cells. Data which is stored in the electrically reloadable nonvolatile memory is divided into blocks, each block having a plurality of data to be administrated and which is assigned an access address by the control unit. An administrative information region is provided in each block. The control unit carries out access requests of the main storage medium and the administration of faulty regions and the number of occurrences of reloading of respective memory cells of the main storage medium.

Semiconductor memory device having faulty cells

In response to a read command received by a system interface unit for accessing a plurality of blocks of data stored in said non-volatile semiconductor memory, a controller carries out selective read operations of blocks of data to two memories from the non-volatile semiconductor memory. The controller also carries out parallel operations of data transferring a first block of data, which has already been subjected to error detection and error correction operations by an error correction unit, from one of the two memories to a host system via said system interface unit and of data transferring of a second block of data to be subjected to the error detection and error correction operation, from said non-volatile semiconductor memory to the other of the two memories.

Nonvolatile memory with faulty cell registration

Disclosed herewith is a radio communication apparatus capable of selecting proper one of plural communication modes such as a MIMO communication system so as to obtain a higher communication rate within a range in which chain retransmission occurrence is prevented. The MIMO system deciding section of the transmitter unit decides a proper MIMO system with reference to the CQI value demultiplexed by a demultiplexer and the AMC table controlling section changes the MCS value step by step according to the transmission count and the result (success/failure) of the communication. Furthermore, the AMC table controlling section updates the mean rate in the measured rate table when the subject data is received successfully or when the transmission count reaches the maximum value.

Coding and modulation selecting method and wireless communication equipment

In a radio communication apparatus, a MIMO system deciding section of a transmitter unit decides an object MIMO communication system with reference to a CQI value and a measured rate table while an AMC table controlling section selects an object MCS value according to the decided MIMO communication system and CQI value. The AMC table controlling section changes the MCS value step by step according to a transmission count and a result (success/failure) of the communication. If the communication (receiving) is successful or if the transmission count reaches the maximum value, the controlling section updates the mean value of the measured rate table. At this time, based on a value estimated from the combination of the MIMO communication system, the encoding system, and the modulating system that are used currently, the controlling section changes the reference for selecting another combination that are not used currently.

MIMO transmission mode selecting method and wireless communication equipment

To suppress the peak of the orthogonal multiplex transmission signal which is small in deterioration of the quality of the reception signal by generating the cancellation waveform in synchronization with the timing of the symbol of the transmission signal. There is provided a peak suppressing method that suppresses peaks of an orthogonally multiplexed signal whose orthogonality is ensured in given time units, the method comprising: a first step of detecting the peaks of the orthogonally multiplexed signal; a second step of generating a peak cancellation waveform based on the detected peaks of the orthogonally multiplexed signal; and a third step of removing the peak of the orthogonally multiplexed signal from the orthogonally multiplexed signal using the generated peak cancellation waveform. The second step comprises generating the peak cancellation waveform in said time units of the orthogonally multiplexed signal.

Method for suppressing peak power of orthogonally multiplex signal, peak power suppressing circuit, and transmitter

Communication equipment transmits signals of an OFDM system while effectively suppressing peaks in the transmission. OFDM signals are formed and peaks of the OFDM signals are suppressed. The OFDM signals of which the peaks are suppressed are converted into intermediate-frequency signals, and peaks of the intermediate-frequency signals are suppressed. Additionally, the intermediate-frequency signals of which the peaks are suppressed are synthesized and the signals having been synthesized are amplified. The peaks of the OFDM signals are suppressed with the synthesized value of the absolute values of the OFDM signals as an estimated peak value, and the peaks of the intermediate-frequency signals are suppressed with the absolute value of the result of synthesizing the intermediate-frequency signals as an estimated peak value.

Peak suppressing OFDM transmitter

The invention provides a spectrum analyzing method, a distortion detector and a distortion compensation amplifying device for performing time/frequency conversion processing at high speed, and reducing a convergent time of a compensation coefficient. The distortion detector for detecting distortion in a frequency area with respect to an input signal includes a time window processing section for multiplying the input signal by a time window; an averaging processing section for averaging an output of the time window processing section; an FFT processing section for converting an output of the averaging processing section from a time area to a frequency area; and a distortion extracting section for extracting a distortion component from an output of the FFT processing section.

Spectrum analyzing method, distortion detector and distortion compensation amplifying device

An apparatus includes: an affine transformer that subjects input complex IF signals I(t) and Q(t) to affine transformation according to affine transformation coefficients, and outputs compensated signals a(t) and b(t); a quadrature modulator that applies quadrature modulation on a local oscillation signal according to the compensated signals, and outputs a modulated signal (RF transmission signal); a quadrature wave detector that removes a carrier component from the modulated signal and outputs complex feedback signals I'(t) and Q&#x2032;(t); and a control portion that extracts linear distortions remaining in the complex feedback signals I&#x2032;(t) and Q&#x2032;(t) as plural distortion coefficients (DC offsets of the I-phase and the Q-phase, an IQ gain ratio, and a deviation in orthogonality), and updates the current affine transformation coefficients in accordance with updating equations including the distortion coefficients to set updated affine transformation coefficients again in the affine transformation portion.

Distortion compensation quadrature modulator and radio transmitter

In a signal generator, a peak value/peak position detection section detects value and position of an amplitude peak observed in modulation data coming from an orthogonal modulation section, and a peak carrier extraction section extracts L subcarriers capable of minimizing such an amplitude peak. A peak carrier generation section generates peak suppression data corresponding to thus extracted subcarriers, and a subtraction section subtracts the peak suppression data from the modulation data. A transmission signal generation section generates an analog transmission signal from the modulation data, and a peak suppression section generates an analog peak suppression signal from the peak suppression data. A signal synthesis section synthesizes the transmission signal and the peak suppression signal, and sends out the synthesis result to a wireless communications line via a transmission antenna. With such a structure, any amplitude peak found in a multicarrier transmission signal can be successfully suppressed.

Signal generator

High speed memory access and transparent error detection and correction using a single error correcting means are obtained. A host computer writes sector data in one of the first memory and second memory, and next sector data in the other of the first and second memory. Sector data is read out from one of the first memory and second memory to the host computer, and simultaneously, next sector data is read out from the other of the first memory and second memory, and error detection and correction performed in the error correcting means. During a next cycle, the sector data read out from one of the first memory and second memory is outputted to the host computer, and simultaneously, error detection and error correction of the next sector data read out from one of the first computer and second computer is performed in the error correcting means.

An equalizer and an equalization method capable of suppressing distortion specific to radio unit and reducing both the oversampling number and the amount of calculations without causing characteristic deterioration. The equalizer, which equalizes a received signal with periodically inserted known pilot symbols, includes a synchronization processing section that detects symbol synchronization points using pilot symbols included in the received signal, a plurality of equalization factor calculation sections which use the symbol synchronization points and points shifted in time before and after the symbol synchronization point as symbol synchronization point candidates, and calculate equalization factors for the respective symbol synchronization point candidates, and an optimization/equalization processing section which selects an optimal symbol synchronization point and corresponding optimal equalization factor from among a plurality of symbol synchronization point candidates and corresponding equalization factors, and equalizes the received signal using the optimal equalization factor.

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Masashi Naito