Invention Grant
- Patent Title: MIMO transceiver suitable for a massive-MIMO system
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Application No.: US15130197Application Date: 2016-04-15
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Publication No.: US10033443B2Publication Date: 2018-07-24
- Inventor: Boris A. Kurchuk
- Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NJ Murray Hill
- Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
- Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Murray Hill
- Agency: Mendelsohn Dunleavy, P.C.
- Agent Yuri Gruzdkov
- Main IPC: H04B7/04
- IPC: H04B7/04 ; H04J1/05 ; H04J1/08 ; H04B7/06 ; H04W88/08 ; H04B7/0452

Abstract:
An embodiment of the disclosed MIMO transceiver uses a single master clock to generate (i) the sampling-clock signals for the analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters and (ii) the multiple electrical local-oscillator signals that are used in various channels of the transceiver's analog down- and up-converters to translate signals between the corresponding intermediate-frequency and RF bands. The MIMO transceiver may employ a plurality of interconnected frequency dividers configured to variously divide the master-clock frequency to generate the sampling-clock signals and the multiple local-oscillator signals in a manner that causes these signals to have different respective frequencies. In embodiments designed for operating in the mmW band, the MIMO transceiver may also employ a frequency multiplier configured to multiply the master-clock frequency to generate an additional local-oscillator signal for translating signals between the mmW and RF bands.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170302342A1 MIMO TRANSCEIVER SUITABLE FOR A MASSIVE-MIMO SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-10-19
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