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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2002
Wenzhe Luo, Allentown, PA (US);
Zhigang Ma, Allentown, PA (US);
Agere Systems, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
An improved automatic frequency compensation (AFC) technique and apparatus is provided for piconet applications, e.g., BLUETOOTH™ applications. In particular, the present invention provides an offset normalizer which normalizes frequency offset against maximum deviations. By normalizing the frequency offset, before determination of an adjustment of a local oscillator, the local oscillator adjustment becomes uncorrelated with respect to gain along the receiving path (including in a demodulator). Thus, extremely precise adjustments can be made to the local oscillator in a piconet device to provide extremely precise automatic frequency compensation.