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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an LNA which has lower power consumption, smaller circuit area, and higher linearity.SOLUTION: In one arm of a differential amplifier 300, a first transistor 310 and a second transistor 320 are coupled as a first cascade pair, and a third transistor 330 and a fourth transistor 340 are coupled as a second cascade pair. The third transistor 330 has its gate coupled to the source of the second transistor 320, and the fourth transistor 340 has its drain coupled to the drain of the second transistor 320. The third transistor 330 generates distortion components used to cancel third order distortion components generated by the first transistor 310. An inductor 350 provides source degeneration for the first transistor 310 and improves distortion cancellation. The sizes of the second transistor 320 and the third transistor 330 are selected to reduce gain loss.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an adaptive filter (430) for transmission leak signal cancellation. SOLUTION: There is described an adaptive filter, suitable for manufacturing on an RF integrated circuit, to be used for transmission (TX) leak cancellation in a wireless full-duplex communication system. The adaptive filter includes adders (530, 540) and an adaptive estimator (510). The adder receives a signal having a TX leak signal and an estimate signal having an estimate of the TX leak signal, the estimate signal is subtracted from the input signal, and an output signal having the attenuated TX leak signal is provided. The adaptive estimator receives the output signal and a reference signal having a first version of a transmission signal, estimates the TX leak signal in the input signal on the basis of the output signal and the reference signal, and provides the estimate signal. The adaptive estimator may also utilize an LMS algorithm to suppress, to a minimum, a mean square error between the TX leak signal in the input signal and the TX leak signal estimate in the estimate signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for reducing adverse effects of transmit signal leakage in a full-duplex, wireless communication system, and for reducing adverse effects of second order distortion and cross-modulation distortion of transmit signal leakage from a transmitter via a duplexer.SOLUTION: An adaptive filter 40 may include an estimator circuit that generates a transmit leakage signal estimate. A summer subtracts the estimate from the received signal to cancel transmit leakage and produce an output signal. The estimator circuit generates the transmit leakage signal estimate based on a reference signal and feedback from the output signal. The reference signal approximates the carrier signal used to generate the transmit signal in the transmitter. The reference signal may be provided by the same oscillator 42 used to produce the transmit carrier signal. The techniques may be effective in rejecting at least a portion of a transmit leakage signal, thereby reducing or eliminating distortion.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce power consumption in a radio frequency (RF) transmitter, where the largest power consumers among a plurality of transmitter blocks are amplifiers including a driver amplifier (DA) and a power amplifier (PA).SOLUTION: A transmitter comprises: a digital control block for dynamically regulating power consumption of the transmitter; and a first diver amplifier circuit comprising a plurality of bias-modes each corresponding to one power consumption level in the transmitter. The digital control block instructs the first diver amplifier circuit to operate in one selected bias-mode in order to regulate power consumption of the transmitter.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for reducing adverse effects of TX signal leakage in a full-duplex, wireless communication system.SOLUTION: To reduce or eliminate second order distortion of transmit signal leakage, a wireless device squares a combined signal that carries both a desired RX signal and a TX leakage signal. For example, the device may include a device that exhibits a strong, second order nonlinearity to, in effect, square the combined signal. The device subtracts the squared signal from the output of a mixer in a receive path, and canceling out at least some of the second-order distortion caused by the mixer. In this manner, the device can reduce the adverse effects of second order distortion of TX signal leakage, thereby enhancing or maintaining receiver sensitivity.
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To reduce power consumption, receiver circuit blocks within a wireless device are biased with less current whenever possible while still achieving the desired performance. The receiver circuit blocks may include a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that generates an oscillator signal used for frequency downconversion of a received signal from the forward link, a low noise amplifier (LNA) that amplifies the received signal, and a mixer that frequency downconverts the received signal. The VCO may be biased with less current if phase noise performance is less stringent, e.g., when (1) the wireless device is not transmitting on the reverse link, (2) a large amplitude jammer is not detected, and/or (3) the received signal level is sufficiently high. The bias currents of other receiver circuit blocks may also be adjusted based on transmitter activity, detected jammer, and/or received signal level.
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métodos, sistemas e dispositivos são descritos para a arquitetura de transceptor para comunicações sem fio de ondas milimétricas. um dispositivo pode incluir dois módulos de chip de transceptor configurados para comunicar em diferentes faixas de frequências. o primeiro módulo de chip de transceptor pode incluir um submódulo de banda base, um primeiro componente de front end de radiofrequência (rffe) e arranjo de antena associado. o segundo módulo de chip de transceptor pode incluir um segundo componente de rffe e arranjo de antena associado. o segundo módulo de chip de transceptor pode ser separado do primeiro módulo de chip de transceptor. o segundo módulo de chip de transceptor pode ser eletricamente acoplado ao submódulo de banda base do primeiro módulo de chip de transceptor.
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A RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER WITH IMPROVED LINEARITY AND MINIMAL THIRD-ORDER DISTORTION. THE AMPLIFIER INCLUDES A FIRST TRANSISTOR HAVING FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD TERMINALS WITH THE FIRST TERMINAL BEING AN INPUT TERMINAL AND THE SECOND TERMINAL BEING THE OUTPUT TERMINAL AND THE THIRD TERMINAL BEING A COMMON TERMINAL. A LINEARIZATION CIRCUIT IS INCLUDED HAVING FIRST AND SECOND TERMINALS. THE FIRST TERMINAL IS CONNECTED TO THE COMMON TERMINAL OF THE TRANSISTOR AND THE SECOND TERMINAL IS CONNECTED TO THE INPUT TERMINAL OF THE TRANSISTOR. IN A SPECIFIC EMBODIMENT, THE LINEARIZATION CIRCUIT IS IMPLEMENTED AS A UNITY GAIN BUFFER WITH AN INPUT TERMINAL CONNECTED TO THE COMMON TERMINAL OF THE TRANSISTOR AND AN OUTPUT TERMINAL CONNECTED TO THE INPUT TERMINAL OF THE TRANSISTOR. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INVENTIVE TEACHINGS, THE BUFFER HAS A LOW GAIN AND HIGH OUTPUT IMPEDANCE AT FIRST FREQUENCY (F1) OF A FIRST SIGNAL APPLIED TO THE CIRCUIT AND A SECOND FREQUENCY (F2) OF A SECOND SIGNAL APPLIED TO THE CIRCUIT AND A UNITY GAIN AND LOW OUTPUT IMPEDANCE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND FREQUENCIES. IN ANOTHER SPECIFIC EMBODIMENT, THE INDUCTOR IS INSERTED BETWEEN THE OUTPUT OF THE UNITY GAIN BUFFER AND THE INPUT TERMINAL OF THE TRANSISTOR. IN ALTERNATIVE EMBODIMENTS, CIRCUITRY IS SHOWN FOR PROVIDING A DIRECT CURRENT OFFSET AT THE INPUT OF THE TRANSISTOR. AS ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE, THE LINEARIZATION CIRCUIT CONSISTS OF SERIES INDUCTOR AND CAPACITOR CONNECTED BETWEEN THE COMMON AND INPUT TERMINALS OF THE TRANSISTOR. IN YET ANOTHER EMBODIMENT, THE LINEARIZATION CIRCUIT CONSISTS OF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND SERIES INDUCTOR AND CAPACITOR CIRCUITS. THE FIRST SERIES LC CIRCUIT IS CONNECTED BETWEEN THE COMMON TERMINAL OF THE TRANSISTOR AND GROUND AND THE SECOND SERIES LC CIRCUIT IS CONNECTED BETWEEN THE INPUT TERMINAL OF THE TRANSISTOR AND GROUND. (FIG. 3)
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a presente invenção se refere a método para configuração de um neurônio artificial incluindo receber um conjunto de sequências de disparos de entrada que compreendem representações da codificação da modulação de pulsos assíncronos. o método também inclui a geração de picos de saída que representam uma semelhança entre o conjunto de sequências de disparos de entrada e um filtro espacial-temporal.
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resumo “método e aparelho para regra de aprendizagem competitiva local que leva a conectividade esparsa”. determinados aspectos da presente invenção suportam uma regra de aprendizagem competitiva local aplicada em uma rede computacional que leva à conectividade esparsa entre as unidades de processamento da rede. a presente invenção provê uma modificação na regra de aprendizagem de oja, que modifica a restrição à soma de pesos elevados ao quadrado na regra de oja. esta restrição pode ser intrínseca e local em oposição às normalizações multiplicadora e subtrativa comumente utilizadas, que são explícitas e exigem o conhecimento de todos os pesos de entrada de uma unidade de processamento para a atualização de cada um deles individualmente. a regra apresentada provê convergência para um vetor de peso que é mais esparso (isto é, tem mais elementos zero) que o vetor de peso aprendido pela regra de oja original. tal conectividade esparsa pode levar a uma seletividade mais elevada das unidades de processador com relação a recursos específicos e pode exigir menos memória para armazenar a configuração de rede e menos energia para acioná-la. 1/1