97 results about "Macro cell" patented technology

A system and method for recording, storing, transferring and viewing trace data from a processor with an embedded trace macrocell. The system provides for compression of repetitive trace records using an algorithm which identifies compressible trace record streams, creates a highly compressed processed trace record stream and stores the processed trace record stream in trace RAM. Thereafter, the processed trace record stream may be transferred to a host computer, expanded and displayed or printed for analysis.

Fast logic sharing is created using a feedback path from the output logic macrocell of one functional block to the product term inputs of another function block without going through an advanced interconnect matrix (AIM). The fast feedback path may be provided from the macrocell after the product terms XOR gate without registering, and / or after the register in the macrocell. The fast logic sharing avoids the slow AIM for feedback logic, and allows additional resources to be borrowed from other function blocks with a limited delay penalty. In particular, delay penalties resulting from dividing wide operations requiring multiple product terms between the product terms of multiple functional blocks are significantly reduced.

A mobile communication system capable of easily notifying the interference-related information and avoiding interference in a situation in which a macro cell and local nodes are deployed to coexist. In the system, a macro cell (eNB) notifies, via user equipments (UEs) present in a coverage, HeNBs present in the coverage of the interference-related information related to the interference to a physical resource to be used, for example, a high interference indication (HII) and an overload indicator (OI).

Progressively optimized clock tree / mesh construction is performed concurrently with placement of all remaining objects. Clock tree / mesh is specified loosely for initial placement, then followed by progressive detailed placement. In particular, preferred approach provides automated and reliable solution to clock tree / mesh construction, occuring concurrently with placement process so that clock tree wiring and buffering considers and influences placement and wiring of all other objects, such as logic gates, memory elements, macrocells, etc. Hence, in this concurrent manner, clock tree / mesh pre-wiring and pre-buffering may be based on construction of approximate clock tree using partitioning information only, i.e., prior to object placement. Further, present approach provides modified DME-based clock tree topology construction without meandering, and recursive algorithm for buffered clock tree construction.

Methods and systems for reusing macro cell resources in femto cell base stations or relay stations in a non-collaborative manner are disclosed. In addition, orthogonal resource allocation between a macro cell base station and femto cell base stations / relay stations may be dynamically adjusted by considering user-population variance. Moreover, an additional level of spatial reuse by femto cell base stations or relay stations can be provided by employing macro cell user location information.

One object of the present invention is to improve stability of wireless communication, regardless of a movement speed of a mobile station by estimating a movement speed of a mobile station using a signal prepared in advance for a used standard and selecting an appropriate base station. In the wireless communication system 100 according to the present invention, in order to adjust a timing of receiving data from the PHS terminal 110 to a desired timing, base stations 120, 122 transmit an adjustment signal for advancing or delaying data transmission timing in the PHS terminal 110. Thus, the PHS terminal 110 calculates a bias amount of such an adjustment signal to determine high speed movement of the PHS terminal 110 and perform handover from a micro cell base station 120 to a macro cell base station 122.

In order for a femto cell base station located within an area of a macro cell base station to provide a paging service to a terminal, the femto cell base station receives paging information from the macro cell base station having the same paging group ID as that of the femto cell base station. Then, common paging area information including paging information is transmitted to the terminal, and when a paging message is received from a paging controller, the received paging message is transmitted based on the common paging area information to the terminal, thereby providing a paging service to the terminal.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductor micro-electronics, and in particular relates to a restraining method and a system of the synchronous layout of a module, a macro unit and a standard unit in the automatic layout design of an integrated circuit domain. Based on the fact that the soft module, the macro unit and the standard unit exist simultaneously, the system first produces a large group of initial layouts, conducts a layout of soft modules and macro units to the initial layouts and then carries out an assembled layout to the standard unit to generate a group of overall layouts. The group of overall layouts is evaluated, the small group of best evaluated overall layouts is taken as the next initial layouts, and then new layouts of soft modules, macro units and an assembled layout of standard units are carried out, a new round of layout evaluation is conducted, and a group of overall layouts with the best results is retained. A most appropriate overall layout is selected out by users as the starting point of the standard units to achieve the goal of rapid restraint, thereby achieving a rapid layout to the SoC integrated circuit that including a large number of macro units, soft modules and standard units and generating an integrated circuit layout which is provided with small layout area and high intercommunicating speed and is unrestricted by the circuit scale simultaneously.

The invention belongs to the technical field of wireless communication, and relates to a method for identifying interfered mobile terminals and methods for avoiding interference. In each system frame, a home / micro-cellular base station senses an uplink frequency spectrum to obtain an uplink physical resource block usage pattern; the home / micro-cellular base station transmits a signaling to a service macro base station via an X2 interface or an air interface, wherein the signaling comprises the uplink physical resource block usage pattern and a detected system wireless frame number; and the service macro base station searches for a history physical resource allocation database, and identifies macro cell mobile terminals using uplink physical resource blocks when the system wireless frame number is n, namely the interfered macro cell mobile terminals by comparison. The invention also provides two methods for avoiding the interference based on the identification method. By the method, the interfered macro cell mobile terminals nearby the home / micro-cellular base station can be identified in case of not reducing the frequency spectrum utilization ratio and the total system capacity, and the macro cell mobile terminals can be effectively prevented from being interfered so as to improve the throughput performance of the macro cell mobile terminals.

A macro-cell is incorporated into an integrated circuit (IC) design to describe a fixed arrangement of cells to be included in the IC. The IC includes a clock tree for delivering a clock signal from its root to all clocked devices (sinks) within the IC external to the macro-cell, and to a root of a clock tree subtree included within the macro-cell for delivering the clock signal from its root to sinks residing within the macro-cell. A model of the subtree depicts the maximum and minimum delays of the clock signal's rising and falling edges between the subtree root and the sinks within the macro-cell as functions of the clock signal's rising and falling edge transition times as they arrives at the subtree root and also as functions of the relative amount of delay the rising and falling edges experience as they pass from the clock tree root to the subtree root. A clock tree synthesis tool uses the subtree model to determine the maximum and minimum rising and falling edge path delays though the subtree when estimating the maximum and minimum amounts by which the clock tree delays the clock signal's rising and falling edges as they pass from the clock tree root to any sink of the IC.

The invention provides a method and a device for transmitting closed subscriber group (CSG) information so as to support paging optimization. The method and the device only transmit the changed CSG information among network entities by combining the access control of the CSG in long term evolution (LTE) and a network frame of an LTE home enode base station (HeNB), so that the data transfer among the network entities is reduced and the cell needing paging can be comprehensively judged by a mobility management entity (MME) with tracking area (TA) information and CSG information so as to prevent redundant paging and reduce the waste of the wire and wireless transmission resource. In addition, the invention also provides a collocation method for a tracking area mark for further optimizing the paging; and the method prevents unnecessary paging from being initiated in a macro cell caused by the paging at a home cell through reasonable collocation of the tracking area mark so as to reduce the waste of the air interface resource of the macro cell. The method and the device can support the paging optimization in the LTE and a further evolution network thereof and effectively support the large-scale deployment and mobility management of the HeNB.

The invention discloses a home base station information configuring and processing method and device. The method comprises the steps of: detecting a macro cell by a home base station when needing to configure a frequency point and a scrambler and obtaining the detected information of an adjacent cell of the macro cell; and detecting the signal intensity of the adjacent cell of the macro cell by the home base station according to the information of the adjacent cell of the macro cell, and determining a frequency point and a scrambler of the home base station according to the detected signal intensity of the adjacent cell of the macro cell and the frequency point and the scrambler used by the adjacent cell. By adopting the method and the device, the quantity of the adjacent cells of the home base station, needing configuring by the macro cell, can be reduced.

Provided are a radio base station, a user terminal and a radio communication method capable of making accurate measurement in various network configurations in HetNet. The radio communication method according to the present invention has, in a heterogeneous network having a network configuration where a macro cell overlays a micro cell that is smaller than the macro cell, a radio base station that forms the macro cell and is connected to a macro terminal under control of the macro cell determining a measurement subframe to measure a CRS based on the network configuration, generating a time reference indicating the measurement subframe and transmitting a signal including the time reference and the CRS to the macro terminal; and the macro terminal receiving the time reference and the CRS and measuring the CRS in the measurement subframe indicated by the time reference.

The invention relates to a base station, a wireless communication system and a switching method. The invention comprises the steps that public channels and service channels are distributed on the service carrier frequency of an indoor covering system, and working frequency points of the service carrier frequency of the indoor covering system are different from working frequency points of the service carrier frequency of an outdoor macro cell system; the public channels are distributed on the beacon carrier frequency of the indoor covering system, system information only including the working frequency point information of the service carrier frequency of the indoor covering system is sent through the public channels, and the working frequency points of the beacon carrier frequency of the indoor covering system are identical to the working frequency points of the beacon carrier frequency of the outdoor macro cell system. The realization of the embodiment of the invention ensures mobile terminals to be successfully resided and be smoothly switched into anticipated wireless communication systems, thus effectively solving the problems of one frequency interference and pilot frequency pollution existing between adjacent wireless communication systems, and enhancing the communication quality of the communication systems.

A system and method for beam detection and beam tracking are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes detecting, by the UE, reference signals sent in beams by one or more small cell nodes, eachreference signal being allocated to a beam, measuring, by the UE, beam qualities of the beams, reporting, by the UE, best quality beams to a macro cell node, receiving, by the UE, an assignment fromthe macro cell node, wherein the assignment is for sending an access signal to the designated small cell node and sending, by the UE, the access signal to the designated small cell node.

A method for computing a sum or difference and a carry-out of numbers in product-term based programmable logic comprising the steps of: (A) generating (i) a portion of the sum or difference and (ii) a lookahead carry output in each of a plurality of logic blocks; (B) communicating the lookahead carry output of each of the logic blocks to a carry input of a next logic block; (C) presenting the lookahead carry output of a last logic block as the carry-out.

The invention discloses method and system for realizing cell physical identification configuration in a home base station. In the scheme of the invention, the home base station provides information of adjacent home base station cells for a home base station management system; and the home base station management system configures cell physical identifications for corresponding home base stations according to the received information of the adjacent home base station cells. According to the scheme of the invention, when the home base station management system configures the cell physical identifications for the home base station, the home base station provides the information of the adjacent home base stations to the home base station management system, thus the home base station management system distributes the cell physical identifications for the home base stations, and avoids confliction of the cell physical identifications according to macro cell information and cell information of the adjacent home base stations, thereby effectively avoiding a series of problems caused by the confliction of the cell physical identifications in the subsequent process to ensure that the system property is improved.

A programmable logic block in an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of macrocells, an AND-array, an OR-array, and a logic circuit. The plurality of macrocells may comprise logic that may be configured to (i) generate and propagate an inverted carry-input signal and (ii) generate a sum bit. The AND-array may comprise at least two product terms per macrocell. The OR-array may be configured to generate a sum-of-products term for each macrocell in response to the two product terms. The logic circuit may be configured to (a) receive (i) the product terms and (ii) the carry-input signal generated by a first macrocell of the plurality of macrocells and (b) generate (i) a block carry-propagate signal, (ii) a block carry-generate signal, and (iii) a block carry-output signal.

A wireless communication system is presented for robust mobility management in a HetNet communication system. A source cell can prepare a macro cell and a target small cell as handover candidates during handover decision making and / or preparation. The mobile device is informed about the prepared macro cell and target small cell using radio resource control (RRC) messaging. After receiving a handover command or detecting radio frequency (RF) loss, the mobile device can try to connect with the target small cell. If the mobile device is unable to connect to the target small cell, the UE can fall back and connect to the macro cell.

The invention provides a scan test latch macrocell and a scan test method. According to the scan test method, through a customized scan test macrocell, an ATPG test vector, based on a structure, used for a latch unit can be generated with a common scan test design method for a D trigger according to a special design process, the problems that testability design development cannot be easily performed on an existing digital special integrated circuit based on latch design, the fault coverage rate of the test vector is low, and time sequence analysis is complex are solved, the fault coverage rate of chip tests is substantially increased, the effectiveness and the completeness of the chip tests are guaranteed, and the method is mainly applied to the test vector development of the digital special integrated circuit based on latch design.

A method and an apparatus, in a mobile communication system, for effectively providing configuration information about a small cell that has a small cell service region are provided. The method for transmitting reconfiguration information of a small cell base station in a mobile communication system includes: when deciding to reconfigure a small cell, obtaining the latest macro cell configuration information from a macro cell base station; generating reconfiguration information about the small cell on the basis of the obtained macro cell configuration information; and transmitting, to the macro cell base station, the regenerated reconfiguration information so that the macro cell base station can transmit the reconfiguration information to User Equipment (UE).

A method for instigating a location / routing area update procedure (LAU / RAU) when a piece of user equipment (UE) reselects its communication base station from a macro base station to a shorter range base station positioned within a macro cell of the macro base station is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of establishing a radio resource control connection between the UE and the shorter range base station; registering the UE with the shorter range base station; assigning location area code data (LAC) and routing area code data (RAC) from the shorter range base station to the UE; wherein the LAC and RAC data are the same data as the LAC and RAC data provided to the UE by the macro cell base station, whereby the UE does not perform a LAU / RAU procedure when it moves out of range of the shorter range base station and recommences communication with the macro base station.

To reduce handover latency experienced by a user using a user equipment that is served for offloaded user data traffic by a first small cell, a handover between a first macro cell deploying the first small cell and a second macro cell deploying a second small cell is triggered when information indicating that the user equipment has associated with the second small cell not deployed by the first macro cell is received.

A method for instigating a location / routing area update procedure (LAU / RAU) when a piece of user equipment (UE) reselects its communication base station from a macro base station to a shorter range base station positioned within a macro cell of the macro base station is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of establishing a radio resource control connection between the UE and the shorter range base station; registering the UE with the shorter range base station; assigning location area code data (LAC) and routing area code data (RAC) from the shorter range base station to the UE; whereinthe LAC and RAC data are the same data as the LAC and RAC data provided to the UE by the macro cell base station, whereby the UE does not perform a LAU / RAU procedure when it moves out of range of theshorter range base station and recommences communication with the macro base station.

A cell selection method includes steps of: (A) determining, at a mobile station (UE), whether or not a first CSG cell satisfies a predetermined condition, when using a first macro cell as a camped cell; and (B) changing, at the mobile station (UE), the camped cell from the first macro cell to a first CSG cell, when determined that the first CSG cell satisfies the predetermined condition.

A system and a method for connecting macro cellular base stations into mini type base stations are applicable to a mobile communication apparatus having a covering range provided by macro cell base stations upon entering into a range provided by mini type base stations for automatic switching. The method includes establishing a database stored with information related to a geographic distribution for mini type base stations and a listing of authorized admission for allowing mobile communication apparatus to enter; acquiring the geographic area of the mobile communication equipment in order to search the database for at least one mini type base station based on International Mobile Subscriber Identity of the mobile communication apparatus for allowing the mobile communication apparatus to enter into the searched mini type base station from the macro cell base stations for communication.

Transmit power (e.g., maximum transmit power) may be defined based on the maximum received signal strength allowed by a receiver and a total received signal strength from transmitting nodes at the receiver. Transmit power may be defined for an access node (e.g., a femto node) such that a corresponding outage created in a cell (e.g., a macro cell) is limited while still providing an acceptable level of coverage for access terminals associated with the access node. An access node may autonomously adjust its transmit power based on channel measurement and a defined coverage hole to mitigate interference and perform a self-calibration process.

The present invention relates to a radio telephony network (1) supporting at least one link of a radio channel (6) for a packet data transmission service. The radio telephony network (1) comprises a plurality of network controllers (RNC). Each network controller (RNC) is connected, via an interface Iub, to at least one base radio station (B-node) supervising at least one macrocell (5a). The radio telephony network (1) additionally comprises at least one base radio microstation (B1-micronode) connected to the network controller (RNC) via an interface Iub of the same type as that connecting the base radio station (B-node) to said controller. The base radio microstation (B1 micronode) supervises at least one microcell (5b) incorporated in at least one macrocell (5a). The base radio microstation (B1-micronode) provides the packet data transmission service in the microcell (5b) on the link of the radio channel (6).

A programmable array logic circuit macrocell using ferromagnetic memory cells. More particularly, the present invention uses a non-volatile ferromagnetic memory cell to temporarily store binary data. It is an advantage of the invention to have the ferromagnetic memory cells or bits to store data even when there is no power provided to the circuitry, thus saving power during operation of the programmable logic circuitry, and ensuring that there is no loss of the data should there be a temporary power shutdown. Additionally, the ferromagnetic cells provide for indefinite number of switching actions on the data without degradation to the capacity to store data therein, thus eliminating "write fatigue". The invention provides an integrated circuit, comprising a programmable OR array (24), a programmable AND array (28), coupled to the programmable OR array, and a macrocell output circuit (22). The macrocell uniquely has a ferromagnetic bit (11) and sensor (12) coupled to store remnant output signal, and an output buffer (34), coupled to output the remnant output signal upon receiving an output enable signal. The macrocell may further include a DQ register that contains the ferromagnetic bit. The DQ register may also include a drive coil, which at least partially surrounds the ferromagnetic bit. Drive coils may have a bi-directional current that sets the polarity of the ferromagnetic bit. The bi-directional current may be switched by two sets of transistor pairs (Q10 and Q11). The two sets of transistor pairs may, in turn, be gated by first and second transistor respectively. The first and second transistors may be responsive to a DATA signal that is received when a CLOCK signal is received.

The invention discloses an information transferring method and system. According to the information transferring method, a macro base station judges whether a user terminal is located in the marginal area of a macro cell and a micro cell or not and sends the parameter of a corresponding link to the user terminal according to a judgment result. The user terminal adjusts the uplink and the downlink of the user terminal according to the parameter of the link. If the macro base station determines that the user terminal is located in the marginal area of the macro cell and the micro cell, the user terminal receives first downlink information from the macro base station through the downlink and sends first uplink information to a micro base station of the micro cell through the uplink. Due to the fact that the uplink and the downlink of the user terminal can conduct communication with different cells, the quality of the uplink and the downlink of the user terminal can be guaranteed simultaneously, and interference in the user terminal is effectively reduced.