Radio receiver

Abstract

Various apparatuses and methods are described to reduce interference in signals subject to intermodulation products and high power narrow band interfering signals on lower power wideband signals. Apparatuses and methods described herein also provide the capability for supporting multi-standards, multi-modes and multi-bands in wireless and wired applications with a single receiver or a receiver with minor variations. The receiver described herein samples the entire band in which there can be signals of interest or signals that can generate interference. All of these signals are sampled in one bit stream and the bit stream is processed to isolate signals of interest and interfering signals. The isolated interfering signals are then cancelled out of the signals of interest.

Description

[0001]This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 10 / 146,358, filed on May 14, 2002, entitled “A RADIO RECEIVER,” and assigned to the corporate assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference.PRIORITY[0002]The present patent application claims priority to the corresponding provisional patent application Ser. No. 60 / 290,781, titled, “Harmonically Compensated Software Radio Receiver HCSRR” filed on May 15, 2001, the corresponding provisional patent application Ser. No. 60 / 309,602, titled, “Harmonically Compensated Software Radio Receiver HCSRR with a Low IF” filed on Aug. 3, 2001, the corresponding provisional patent application Ser. No. 60 / 311,942, titled, “Harmonically Compensated Software Radio Receiver HCSRR With a Low IF” filed on Aug. 13, 2001, and the corresponding provisional patent application Ser. No. 60 / 328,125, titled, “Harmonically Compensated Software Radio Receiver HCSRR With a Low IF and Nonlinear Delta Modulated Transmitter” filed on Oct. 9, 20...

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Benefits of technology

"The patent describes a way to process signals by over-sampling them to create a bitstream, and then isolating the signals of interest from interference. The interference can generate intermodulation products that can affect the signals of interest. The method also includes computing an estimate of each intermodulation product and canceling out the inband intermodulation products using the estimate. The technical effect of this patent is to improve the quality of signals by reducing interference and intermodulation products."

Problems solved by technology

One of the common problems associated with wireless communications is unwanted signals intermixed with the information signal.

These unwanted signals are referred to as interference.

This interference can alter a radio frequency (RF) reception so that a receiver does not receive the information signal as intended.

However, this technique does not eliminate the interference due to the tails of the harmonic images that extend into the baseband signal.

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