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Rotem Banin

Ofir Degani

Elan Banin

Ashoke Ravi

Igal Kushnir

Assaf Ben-Bassat

Sebastian Sievert

Georgios Yorgos Palaskas

Gil Horovitz

Yossi Tsfati

Eyal Fayneh

Eytan Mann

Eshel Gordon

Inbar Falkov

Elias Nassar

Kameran Azadet

Shilpa Talwar

Hosein Nikopour

Bryan K Casper

Wook Bong Lee

Michael Genossar

Claudio Da Silva

Stefano Pellerano

Debabani Choudhury

Sidharth Dalmia

Albert Molina

Michael Kerner

Duncan Kitchin

Saku Lahti

Oner Orhan

Emanuel Cohen

Mikko S Komulainen

Gadi Shor

Eren Sasoglu

Jayprakash Thakur

Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe

Evgeny Shumaker

Menashe Soffer

Shahar Gross

Ana M Yepes

Kunal Datta

Omer Asaf

Moshe Teplitsky

Run Levinger

Chintan S Thakkar

Erkan Alpman

Josef Hagn

Baljit Singh

Sarit Zur

Tawfiq Musah

Nebil Tanzi

Ron Pongratz

Ran Shimon

Peter Sagazio

Amit Freiman

Eyal Goldberger

Shmuel Ravid

Kaushik Dasgupta

Eran Gerson

Meir Gordon

Shuhei Yamada

Noam Kogan

Nir Weisman

Marian K Verhelst

Resti Montoya Moreno

Anandaroop Chakrabarti

Mikko M Lampinen

Miroslav Baryakh

Naftali Landsberg

Ra'anan Sover

Avi Tsarfati

Lior Shakedd

Saeid Daneshgar Asl

Ronen Gernizky

Te Yu Kao

Stefano Brenna

Anat Bazov

Shinwon Kang

Nathan G Narevsky

Eng Hun Ooi

Shahar Porat

Amir Israel Rubin

Paolo Madoglio

Peter Preyler

Aryeh Farber

Samer Nassar

Ayal Eshkoli

Gregory Chance

Yair Dgani

Uri Perlmutter

Hasnain Lakdawala

Markus Schimper

Gregory W Chance

Nati Dinur

Brandon R Davis

Rotem Avivi

Tal Davidson

Avishay Friedman

Eran Socher

Tzvi Maimon

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.

Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods

For example, an apparatus may include an encoder configured to encode data into a plurality of codewords according to a parity function for a transmission modulated according to a Differential Modulation (DM) scheme, and/or a decoder to decode received codewords of the transmission.

Apparatus, system and method of encoding/decoding data according to a parity function

A method and apparatus for generating a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signal. The apparatus may include a first oscillator configured to generate a first oscillation signal, a frequency modulator configured to generate a frequency-modulated oscillation signal from the first oscillation signal based on a sequence of control words, a frequency modulation code generator configured to generate a sequence of frequency modulation codes for generating an FMCW waveform, and a frequency multiplier configured to generate the FMCW signal by up-converting the frequency-modulated oscillation signal. The sequence of control words is generated based on the sequence of frequency modulation codes. The apparatus may include a second oscillator configured to generate a second oscillation signal, and a phase detector configured to detect a phase difference between the first oscillation signal and the second oscillation signal and generate an offset code based on the phase difference. The frequency modulator may be a digital-to-time converter.

Method and apparatus for generating frequency modulated continuous wave signal

A wireless communication device for asymmetrical frequency spreading including a processor configured to receive a frequency band message comprising a maximum difference and a minimum difference, wherein the maximum difference is between a maximum frequency of a sub-band and a signal frequency, and wherein the minimum difference is between the minimum frequency of the sub-band and the signal frequency compare the maximum difference and the minimum difference with each other; and generate a frequency shift based on the comparison.

Methods and devices for asymmetric frequency spreading

An apparatus for generating a data signal comprises a processing circuit configured to generate the data signal, the data signal comprising a sequence of a first signal edge of a first type, a second signal edge of a second type, and a third signal edge of the first type, the first signal edge and the second signal edge being separated by a first time period corresponding to first data to be transmitted, and the second signal edge and the third signal edge being separated by a second time period corresponding to second data to be transmitted. An output interface circuit is configured to output the data signal.

Time encoded data communication protocol, apparatus and method for generating and receiving a data signal

A transmitter for generating a radio frequency, RF, transmit signal is provided. The transmitter includes signal generation circuitry configured to generate, based on a sequence of first control words each indicating a respective frequency shift with respect to a target frequency of the RF transmit signal, a RF carrier signal with sequentially varying frequency over time in order to frequency spread the RF transmit signal. Further, the transmitter includes modulation circuitry configured to generate the RF transmit signal by modulating the RF carrier signal with a modulation control signal. The transmitter additionally includes modification circuitry configured to generate the modulation control signal by modifying, based on the sequence of first control words, phase information of a baseband signal bearing information to be transmitted or phase information of a signal derived from the baseband signal in order to frequency de-spread the RF transmit signal.

Transmitter and method for generating radio frequency transmit signal, mobile device and base station

An apparatus for transmitting a bit in addition to a plurality of payload data symbols of a communication protocol is provided. The apparatus comprises an input interface configured to receive information about a bit value of the bit. Further, the apparatus comprises a transmission circuit configured to, if the bit value is a first value, transmit the plurality of payload data symbols at predetermined positions in a data signal as pulses of variable pulse length. The respective pulse length of each of the pulses is selected based on the symbol value of the payload data symbol represented by the respective pulse. If the bit value is a second value, the transmission circuit is configured to transmit a pulse exhibiting a pulse length being longer than a maximum payload data symbol pulse length defined in the communication protocol at the predetermined position of the pulse for the d-th payload data symbol of the plurality of payload data symbols, d=k+i if k+i≤z. d=([k+i] mod z) if k+i>z. k is the symbol value of the i-th payload data symbol of the plurality of payload data symbols, z is the number of possible symbol values of the payload data symbols defined in the communication protocol, and 1≤i≤z.

Apparatus and method for transmitting a bit in addition to a plurality of payload data symbols of a communication protocol, and apparatus and method for decoding a data signal

An apparatus for interpolating between a first signal and a second signal is provided. The apparatus includes a first plurality of interpolation cells configured to generate a first interpolation signal at a first node. At least one of the first plurality of interpolation cells is configured to supply, based on a first number of bits of a control word, at least one of the first signal and the second signal to the first node. The apparatus further includes a second plurality of interpolation cells configured to generate a second interpolation signal at a second node. At least one of the second plurality of interpolation cells is configured to supply, based on a second number of bits of the control word, at least one of the first signal and the second signal to the second node. The apparatus additionally includes an interpolation circuit configured to weight the second interpolation signal based on a weighting factor, and to combine the first interpolation signal and the weighted second interpolation signal to generate a third interpolation signal.

Apparatus and method for interpolating between a first signal and a second signal

An apparatus for generating an oscillation signal is provided. The apparatus includes a first oscillator configured to generate a first reference oscillation signal, and a second oscillator configured to generate a second reference oscillation signal. A frequency accuracy of the first oscillator is higher than a frequency accuracy of the second oscillator. Further, an oscillator phase noise of the second oscillator is lower than an oscillator phase noise of the first oscillator. The apparatus further includes a processing circuit configured to generate a third reference oscillation signal based on the first reference oscillation signal and the second reference oscillation signal. Additionally, the apparatus includes a phase-locked loop configured to generate the oscillation signal based on the third reference oscillation signal. A frequency of the oscillation signal is a multiple of a frequency of the third reference oscillation signal.

Apparatuses for generating an oscillation signal

A frequency estimator for estimating a frequency, including a counter configured to count an integer number of full clock cycles during a measurement time window; a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) configured to measure a fraction of a clock cycle during the measurement time window; and a processor configured to determine the estimated frequency based on the counted number of full clock cycles and the measured fraction of the clock cycle.

Frequency estimation

A transceiver, including a modulation circuit configured to modulate a first digital word into a first modulated time signal; and a demodulation circuit configured to demodulate a second modulated time signal into a second digital word, wherein the modulation and demodulation circuits are operable without an external clock source, and inseparably share one or more same circuit elements. Also, a tunable delay line may be configured to set a time rate of the modulation, wherein the modulation circuit and the demodulation circuit inseparably share the tunable delay line.

Transceiver with inseparable modulator demodulator circuits

A phase interpolator is provided. The phase interpolator includes a plurality of first interpolation cells each configured to supply a first current to a common node of the phase interpolator. Further, the phase interpolator includes a plurality of second interpolation cells each configured to supply a second current to the common node. The second current is lower than the first current, wherein a sum of the plurality of second currents supplied to the common node by the plurality of second interpolation cells is substantially equal to the first current.

Phase interpolator, apparatus for phase interpolation, digital-to-time converter, and methods for phase interpolation

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