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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2009
Volker Mauer, Buckinghamshire, GB;
Kulwinder Dhanoa, London, GB;
Paul Metzgen, London, GB;
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In order to reduce the crest factor of a signal for power amplification, a windowing function is applied. The windowing function that is applied is a triangular windowing function. The use of this function produces good results when those results are measured in terms of their effect on a transmitted signal in a WCDMA communications system. The filter for performing the triangular windowing function receives the signal, and applies it to a first delay element. The output from the first delay element is applied to a second delay element. An adder forms a weighted sum of the received signal and the signals at the outputs of the first delay element and the second delay element. A first accumulator is connected to receive an input from the adder and provides a first accumulator output, while a second accumulator is connected to receive an input from the first accumulator output and provides a second accumulator output.