Altera Corporation

Richard Maiden

Nima Safari

Martin Langhammer

Steven Perry

Volker Mauer

Shahin Gheitanchi

A signal processing device includes a filter, configured to receive first data representing a signal for wireless transmission, modify the first data in a filter operation, and output second data as the modified first data; a peak detector, configured to detect third data representing a peak of the signal, wherein the third data are a subset of the first data; a signal canceller, configured to receive the third data and to generate fourth data representing a cancellation signal corresponding to the peak of the signal; and a peak modifier, configured to receive the second data and the fourth data, and to generate fifth data using the second data and the fourth data, wherein the fifth data represent the signal with a modified peak.

Joint channel filtering and crest factor reduction architecture

Techniques and mechanisms provide a technique for compression using an approximation of a mu-law algorithm.

Compression using mu-law approximation

Systems and methods of configuring a programmable integrated circuit. An array of signal processing accelerators (SPAs) is included in the programmable integrated circuit. The array of SPAs is separate from a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and the array of SPAs is configured to receive input data from the FPGA and is programmable to perform at least a filtering function on the input data to obtain output data.

Hybrid architecture for signal processing

Integrated circuits are provided with wireless communications circuitry having digital predistortion (DPD) circuitry, peak canceling circuitry, a power amplifier, and signal conditioning circuitry for controlling the DPD and peak canceling circuitry. The peak canceling circuitry may receive transmit signals and may clip peaks in the transmit signals that exceed a magnitude threshold value. The DPD circuitry may compensate for non-linear characteristics of the power amplifier by outputting a predistorted version of the clipped transmit signals. The power amplifier may receive the predistorted signals and may perform amplification to generate amplified signals. The signal conditioning circuitry may identify power transfer characteristics of the power amplifier and DPD circuitry using the predistorted signals and the amplified signals. The signal conditioning circuitry may update the magnitude threshold value imposed by the peak canceling threshold based on the identified power transfer characteristics to mitigate out-of-band spectral regrowth in the predistorted signals.

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Richard Maiden