Abstract:
Communication between a wireless base-station and a microwave reflector link are enhanced by feeding back a portion of the transmitter signal, adjusted for phase and amplitude, to cancel ambient reflection blocker signals being received at the base-station. The microwave reflector link does not utilize a transmitter gain stage, but communicates data back to the base-station in response to modulating the reflections of its antenna (e.g., in gain and/or phase). The disclosure aids in the proper amplification and processing of reflection signals from the microwave reflector link, by canceling out the blocking signals which arise as background objects reflect transmitter signal energy back to the base-station.
Abstract:
A system for wirelessly communicating between a base station and a mobile device, including a reflector integrated with a mobile device, wherein the reflector reflects carrier radiation transmitted from a base station, to form a reflection of the carrier radiation, and input data from the mobile device modulates a reflection coefficient of the reflector, thereby modulating the reflection such that the reflection of the carrier radiation carries the input data to the base station.
Abstract:
We have demonstrated that the bandwidth millimeter wavelengths offer can be leveraged to deeply spread a low-data rate signal below the thermal floor of the environment (sub-thermal) by lowered transmit power combined with free space losses, while still being successfully received through a novel dispreading structure which does not rely on pre-detection to extract timing information. The demonstrated data link ensures that it cannot be detected beyond a designed range from the transmitter, while still providing reliable communication. A demonstration chipset of this sub-thermal concept was implemented in a 28 nm CMOS technology and when combined with an InP receiver was shown to decode signals up to 30 dB below the thermal noise floor by spreading a 9600 bps signal over 1 GHz of RF bandwidth from 93 to 94 GHz using a 64 bit spreading code. The transmitter for this chipset consumed 62 mW while the receiver consumed 281 mw.
Abstract:
A backscatter modulator for providing low power wireless communications. The disclosed modulator provides phase control for discriminating backscatter from the antenna versus other objects. In addition, the disclosed backscatter modulator provides amplitude modulation so that the technique can provide a non-constant envelope which can provide an intentional imbalance to manipulate super-position to provide envelope control of the reflected signal, while still maintaining the frequency translation properties. The disclosed backscatter modulator thus allows compatibility with QAM, OFDM and other non-constant envelope modulation schemes to be backscattered, while still supporting the frequency translation behavior.
Abstract:
Communication between a wireless base-station and a microwave reflector link are enhanced by feeding back a portion of the transmitter signal, adjusted for phase and amplitude, to cancel ambient reflection blocker signals being received at the base-station. The microwave reflector link does not utilize a transmitter gain stage, but communicates data back to the base-station in response to modulating the reflections of its antenna (e.g., in gain and/or phase). The disclosure aids in the proper amplification and processing of reflection signals from the microwave reflector link, by canceling out the blocking signals which arise as background objects reflect transmitter signal energy back to the base-station.
Abstract:
A data link, comprising a substrate; and an ink structure printed and/or marked on a substrate, wherein the structure directs an electric, magnetic, and/or electromagnetic wave between two locations.
Abstract:
A circuit comprising a first Fourier Transform block operable to perform a Fourier Transform and having a first input configured for receiving an I signal and a second input configured for receiving a Q signal; a first plurality of n of outputs for I channels and Q channels each comprising a different frequency bin output from the Fourier Transform; I and Q summing blocks comprising a set of connector lines connecting an ith one of I channels with an ith one of the Q channels; an inverse Fourier Transform block connected to the summing blocks and operable to perform an inverse Fourier Transform; a correlator for correlating the outputs of the inverse Fourier Transform; a Fourier Transform block for Fourier Transforming the correlator output; a comparator for comparing the correlation term to zero; and an error correction circuit for tuning the magnitude and phase of the I and Q channels using the comparator output as feedback.
Abstract:
We have demonstrated that the bandwidth millimeter wavelengths offer can be leveraged to deeply spread a low-data rate signal below the thermal floor of the environment (sub-thermal) by lowered transmit power combined with free space losses, while still being successfully received through a novel dispreading structure which does not rely on pre-detection to extract timing information. The demonstrated data link ensures that it cannot be detected beyond a designed range from the transmitter, while still providing reliable communication. A demonstration chipset of this sub-thermal concept was implemented in a 28 nm CMOS technology and when combined with an InP receiver was shown to decode signals up to 30 dB below the thermal noise floor by spreading a 9600 bps signal over 1 GHz of RF bandwidth from 93 to 94 GHz using a 64 bit spreading code. The transmitter for this chipset consumed 62 mW while the receiver consumed 281 mw.