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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
May. 04, 2021
Washington State University, Pullman, WA (US);
Subhanshu Gupta, Pullman, WA (US);
Erfan Ghaderi, Hillsboro, OR (US);
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, Pullman, WA (US);
Abstract
An N-element baseband (BB) time-domain spatial signal processor system and methodology for large modulated bandwidth multi-antenna receivers are provided. Such a processor generally includes a pipeline converter configured as an asynchronous time-to-digital converter, wherein the asynchronous time-to-digital converter arrangement generates a residue value and an asynchronous pulse and is further arranged to amplify the residue value so as to result in an amplified residue value; and a 2-bit flash time-to-digital-converter configured to quantize the amplified residue value. Thus, a true-time delay spatial signal processing system and technique in the time-domain that enables beamforming, beam-nulling and multiple independent interference cancellation after time-alignment of signals using cascaded voltage-to-time converters and quantization using relaxed pipeline time-to-digital converters is presented.