Infineon Technologies Ag

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Ralf Hartmann

Peter Bohnhoff

Bin Yang

Martin Krüger

Peter Aymar

In order to compensate for a frequency offset or a change in the phase of the transmission channel over time during mobile radio transmission of data symbols, the data symbols are transmitted by way of carrier-frequency, modulated data bursts. Sample values of the received signal, which are known in advance and correspond to first and second symbols, are evaluated in order to estimate the frequency offset or the change in the phase of the transmission channel over time. These first and second symbols are transmitted with a defined phase angle by way of the data burst, and are arranged separated from one another in the data burst. Edge symbols in a data burst are advantageously used as first and second symbols, or as a symbol pair, for estimation.

Method and receiving unit for compensation for a frequency offset and/or for a change in the phase of a transmission channel over time by receiver-end evaluation of edge symbols of a received data burst

An apparatus and method for executing a Viterbi algorithm includes initial state registers, at least one transition register, and an adder/subtracter network. Furthermore, evaluation units and a selection unit are provided for switching the apparatus between a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The selection unit can select different evaluation units depending on the selected operating mode.

Device and method to carry out a viterbi-algorithm

An identifier is provided for an integrated circuit with a memory composed of a multiplicity of memory cells. The circuit has a manufacture-related memory cell defect pattern formed of defective memory cells. The method of identifying the integrated circuit utilizes the memory cell defect pattern to generate a circuit identification number for identifying the integrated circuit.

Method for identifying an integrated circuit

In a radio receiver, an equalizer generates reliability information in the form of soft decision information indicating probabilities that a data symbol received by the radio receiver is based on a specific transmitted value. A bit error rate estimator obtains bit error rate information regarding the bit error rate of the received signal, corresponding to the received data symbols, by evaluating the reliability information.

Method for estimating the bit error rate in a radio receiver and corresponding radio receiver

An equalizer of a radio receiver for generating reliability information (q) that specifies probabilities of a received data symbol (z) being based on a particular transmitted value. The reliability information (q) is determined for each received data symbol (z) by evaluating trellis state transitions through use of a particular metric, both trellis-based symbols and decision-feedback symbols being evaluated. The decision-feedback symbols used are state-independent symbols that have previously been decided by means of a hard decision.

Method and apparatus for generating reliability information for channel decoding in a radio receiver

A method identifies a pulse sequence having known values and a known length in a signal. According to this method, the mathematical sign of the phase difference between samples of the signal is used to estimate whether the transmitted pulse is a 1 or a 0. Undersampling, carried out to a selectable extent, produces a relatively insensitive response to adjacent channel interference. The sum of the pulses in a window which is proportional to the length of the pulse sequence and to the extent of the undersampling is determined, with the pulse sequence being regarded as being identified at the point in time at which the sum of the pulses in this search window exceeds a threshold value.

Method for detection of pilot tones

A pulse train with known values and a known length contained in a signal is identified. The mathematical sign of the phase difference between successive samples of the signal is used to assess whether the transmitted pulse is a 1 or a 0, and with the sum of the pulses being determined in a window which is proportional to the length of the pulse train. The pulse train is considered as being identified at the time when the sum of the pulses in the search window exceeds a given threshold value.

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