39 results about "Channel matched filter" patented technology

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. The samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”) substantially to filter channel-injected noise.

The present invention is related to a decision feedback equalizing apparatus and a method thereof. The object of the invention is to provide to an apparatus and a method of decision feedback equalization that make a channel property of an inferior receiving signal to mild by using a channel-matched filter and decreases decision errors of symbol detector output signals by using a trellis decoder with decreased complexity, whose trace back depth is 1 (TBD=1).

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. The samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”) substantially to filter channel-injected noise.

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. The samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”) substantially to filter channel-injected noise.

A method of decoding a digitally encoded signal having plural channels includes sampling a transient portion of a master filter mask, storing matched filter coefficients obtained from the sampling, receiving the digitally encoded signal, channelizing the digitally encoded signal into the plural channels, and generating a channel matched filter mask for each one of the plural channels using a subset of the stored coefficients. The method also includes filtering each one of the plural channels, in the frequency domain, based on the channel matched filter mask generated for each of the plural channels. Also disclosed are related methods using a burst reconstruction buffer, per channel distortion equalization, channel estimation and activity monitoring, and noise floor estimation, as well as corresponding apparatuses.

A wireless communications device may include a wireless receiver for receiving signals comprising alternating known and unknown symbol portions, and a demodulator connected thereto. The demodulator may include: a channel estimation module for generating respective channel estimates for a prior unknown symbol portion(s), current unknown symbol portion and for future unknown symbol portion(s); an autocorrelation module for generating autocorrelation matrices for the prior, current and future unknown symbol portions; a channel match filter module for generating respective channel matching coefficients for the prior and current / future unknown symbol portions; a factorization module for dividing the autocorrelation matrices into respective upper and lower autocorrelation matrices; a transformation module for transforming the channel matching coefficients into upper and lower channel matching coefficients; and a back-substitution module for determining the current unknown symbol portion based upon the upper and lower autocorrelation matrices and channel matching coefficients for the current and prior / future unknown symbol portions.

An efficient method and apparatus for implementing a back-end channel matched filter in a receiver is disclosed. A typical channel matched filter embodiment includes a peak detector for establishing processing synchronization from a despread signal, a channel estimator producing a channel impulse response (CIR) estimate from the despread signal based on the synchronization by the peak detector and a back-end symbol combiner coherently combining dominant multipath components of the despread signal by weights based on the CIR estimate based on the synchronization by the peak detector to generate a decision variable. In a digital spread spectrum implementation, the despread signal operated on by the channel matched filter has been previously been correlated with a spreading sequence replica.

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. The phase of the carrier can be determined by accumulating the correlator output before it is rotated by the carrier correction. By comparing the carrier phases of two receivers separated by a known distance, d, the angle of incidence, θ, of the signal can be determined.

A spread-spectrum code division multiple access interference canceller for reducing interference in a direct sequence CDMA, employed at a base station receiver having N chip-code channels. The interference canceller includes a plurality of correlators or matched filters, a plurality of spread-spectrum-processing circuits, subtracting circuits, and channel correlators or channel-matched filters. Using a plurality of chip-code signals, the plurality of correlators despreads the spread-spectrum CDMA signal as a plurality of despread signals, respectively. The spread-spectrum-processing circuits use a timed version of the chip-code signals, for spread-spectrum processing the despread signals, respectively, with a chip-code-signal corresponding to a respective despread signal. For recovering a code channel using an ith chip-code-signal, the subtracting circuits subtracts from the spread-spectrum CDMA signal, the N−1 spread-spectrum-processed-despread signals generating a subtracted signal. The N−1 spread-spectrum-processed-despread signals exclude the spread-spectrum-processed-despread signal of the ith channel. The channel correlator or channel-matched filter despreads the subtracted signal.

Provided is an apparatus for channel equalization in frequency domain, including: a channel estimation unit for estimating a channel on received signal from outside, a channel matched filter for changing channel characteristic of the channel estimated by the channel estimation unit and the received signal to channel characteristic to meet condition required for noncausal filtering, a noncausal filter for changing the channel characteristic changed by the channel matched filter from nonminimum phase channel to minimum phase channel, a reverse channel calculation unit for calculating a reverse of the channel changed by the non-causal filter in frequency domain, and a frequency domain equalization unit for performing channel equalization with respect to the channel changed by the noncausal filter in the frequency domain by using the reverse obtained by the reverse channel calculation unit as coefficients of the frequency domain equalization apparatus.

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. The phase of the carrier can be determined by accumulating the correlator output before it is rotated by the carrier correction. By comparing the carrier phases of two receivers separated by a known distance, d, the angle of incidence, θ, of the signal can be determined. One or more receivers may be adapted to use multiple antennae, thus reducing the total number of receivers relative to the total number of antennae.

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. The samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, a stream of estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”) substantially to filter channel-injected noise. The time of arrival of the first arriving path is developed from the stream of CIR estimates.

A 108-tap 1:4 interpolation FIR filter device for digital mobile telecommunication having a single bit input that employs a look-up table minimum scheme and a pipeline structure in which the size of the entire look-up tables is significantly reduced by dividing four coefficient groups into three parts, respectively, and effectively using the symmetry of the 108-tap filter coefficient and the symmetry within the look-up table. The FIR filter includes an input shift register and selector for processing a single bit input of four channels, an address generator for producing addresses of the look-up table, look-up table group 0˜3 for producing filter outputs group by group via the look-up table and the calculator using the address as an input, a pipeline register I for delaying the filter outputs for coefficient group which are outputted in parallel, a group selector for converting the delayed outputs in serial channel by channel, and a pipeline register II for matching the time of filter output channel by channel.

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. The phase of the carrier can be determined by accumulating the correlator output before it is rotated by the carrier correction. By comparing the carrier phases of two receivers separated by a known distance, d, the angle of incidence, θ, of the signal can be determined. One or more receivers may be adapted to use multiple antennae, thus reducing the total number of receivers relative to the total number of antennae.

An efficient decoding scheme of a receiver in a wireless communication system including a transmitter for encoding data into quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes (STBCs) and transmitting the STBCs through a plurality of transmit antennas using fading channels, and a receiver for receiving data through a plurality of receive antennas. In the decoding scheme, channel matched filtering is performed on M N-dimensional equivalent reception vectors {right arrow over (y)}m received through M receive antennas and N-dimensional channel matched filtered vectors {right arrow over (y)}m,mat are outputted. P L-dimensional sub-channel matched filtered vectors {right arrow over (y)}m,mati are generated from each of the N-dimensional channel matched filtered vectors {right arrow over (y)}m,mat. P L-dimensional sub-equivalent channel matched filtered vectors {right arrow over (y)}m,mati are generated using the sub-channel matched filtered vectors {right arrow over (y)}m,mati. Iterative interference cancellation and maximum likelihood (ML) decoding are performed on each of the L-dimensional sub-equivalent channel matched filtered vectors {right arrow over (y)}mati, and P L-dimensional sub-input vectors {right arrow over (x)}i are demodulated.

The invention discloses a radar signal design method capable of resisting intermittent sampling and forwarding interference, which comprises the following steps of: starting from the angle of waveform design, coding each symbol in a time domain by adopting a chaos sequence with good pseudo-randomness, and adding a part of signal data in each path in the time domain into equivalent redundant codes according to random arrangement. The MIMO radar performs multi-channel sending and receiving and multi-channel matched filtering on the anti-interference radar signal, so that the pseudo-randomness of the radar waveform pulse is increased, the correlation between the radar echo and the intermittent sampling interference is reduced, and the intra-pulse correlation of the radar signal is reduced, and therefore, and the radar signal has the characteristic of resisting the intermittent sampling interference, therefore, the interference of ISRJ false targets can be effectively reduced and meanwhile, the method does not conflict with a common filter design method, and can be used in a superposed manner.

Provided is a decision feedback equalization apparatus including a channel estimation unit for estimating a channel on received signal based on the received signal and a training sequence; a channel matched filter for maximizing SNR from the channel estimated by the channel estimation unit to change channel characteristic of the received signal; a noncausal filter for approximating the channel changed by the channel matched filter from nonminimum phase channel to minimum phase channel; an equalizer input signal storage unit for storing received symbols passed through the channel matched filter and the noncausal filter; a channel equalization unit for performing a decision feedback equalization through filtering of a signal passed through the channel matched filter and the noncausal filter; a Trellis decoder for detecting symbol from a signal channel-equalized by the channel equalization unit; a mode selection unit for selecting a specific mode; an error signal calculator for comparing an output signal of the mode selected by the mode selection unit with an output signal of the channel equalization unit to calculate an error signal; and a tap coefficient updater for updating tap coefficients to the channel equalization unit by using the error signal from the error signal calculator, an output signal from the storage unit, and an output signal from the Trellis decoder.

In an ultra-wideband ("UWB") receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response ("CIR") are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter ("SFD") is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter ("CMF"). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. The phase of the carrier can be determined by accumulating the correlator output before it is rotated by the carrier correction. By comparing the carrier phases of two receivers separated by a known distance, d, the angle of incidence, Theta, of the signal can be determined.

A wireless communications device may include a wireless receiver receiving signals having alternating known and unknown symbol portions over a channel, and a demodulator systolic array. The demodulator systolic array may include a channel estimation module generating respective channel estimates for each unknown symbol portion based upon the known symbol portions. An autocorrelation module may generate autocorrelation matrices based upon the channel estimates. A channel match filter module may generate respective channel matching coefficients for the unknown symbol portions, and a factorization module may divide the autocorrelation matrices into respective upper and lower autocorrelation matrices. A transformation module may transform the channel matching coefficients into upper and lower channel matching coefficients. A back-substitution module may determine the unknown symbol portions by estimating the unknown symbol portions based upon autocorrelation matrices and channel matching coefficients, lower autocorrelation matrices and channel matching coefficients, and combining the estimates.

A decision feedback equalization apparatus includes a channel estimation unit estimating a channel on received signal based on the received signal and a training sequence; a channel matched filter maximizing SNR from the channel estimated by the channel estimation unit changing channel characteristics of the received signal; a noncausal filter approximating the changed channel; an equalizer input signal storage unit storing received symbols passed through the channel matched and the noncausal filters; a channel equalization unit performing a decision feedback equalization; a Trellis decoder detecting symbol from a channel-equalized signal; a mode selection unit selecting a specific mode; an error signal calculator comparing an output signal of the selected mode with an output signal of the channel equalization unit to calculate an error signal; and a tap coefficient updater updating tap coefficients to the channel equalization unit, an output signal from the storage unit, and an output signal from the Trellis decoder.

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. The samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”) substantially to filter channel-injected noise.

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. In one embodiment, the carrier recovery and timing recovery are performed using just the carrier loop filter.

A wireless communications device may include a wireless receiver for receiving signals comprising alternating known and unknown symbol portions, and a demodulator connected thereto. The demodulator may include a channel estimation module for generating respective channel estimates for a prior unknown symbol portion(s), current unknown symbol portion and for future unknown symbol portion(s). An autocorrelation module may generate autocorrelation matrices for the prior, current and future unknown symbol portions. A channel match filter module may generate respective channel matching coefficients for the prior and current / future unknown symbol portions, and a factorization module may divide the autocorrelation matrices into respective upper and lower autocorrelation matrices. A transformation module may transform the channel matching coefficients into upper and lower channel matching coefficients. A a back-substitution module may determine the current unknown symbol portion based upon the upper and lower autocorrelation matrices and channel matching coefficients for the current and prior / future unknown symbol portions.

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. The phase of the carrier can be determined by accumulating the correlator output before it is rotated by the carrier correction. By comparing the carrier phases of two receivers separated by a known distance, d, the angle of incidence, θ, of the signal can be determined.

Methods of efficient calculation of initial equaliser coefficients are described. In a first stage, a channel matched filter is generated based on an estimate of CIR and then used to filter the CIR estimate. In a second stage, initial FFE coefficients are calculated from a portion of the match filtered CIR and then these initial FFE coefficients and the estimate of CIR may be used to generate initial DFE coefficients. In various embodiments, a window is applied to the CIR estimate before the matched filter is generated. In various embodiments, the second stage is iterated to minimise the pre-echoes following the FFE.