| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090124204 | Minimum Finger Low-Power Demodulator For Wireless Communication - Techniques for assigning multipaths to finger processors to achieve the desired data performance and low power consumption are described. A search is initially performed to obtain a set of multipaths for a transmission from at least one base station. At least one multipath (e.g., the minimum number of multipaths) having a combined performance metric (e.g., a combined SNR) exceeding a threshold is identified. The at least one multipath is assigned to, and processed by, at least one finger processor to recover the transmission from the base station(s). | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100183096 | EFFICIENT MULTI-SYMBOL DEINTERLEAVER - Embodiments disclosed herein address the need in the art for an efficient multi-symbol deinterleaver. In one aspect, a plurality of memory banks are deployed to receive and simultaneously store a plurality of values, such as soft decision values determined from a modulation constellation, in accordance with a storing pattern. In another aspect, the storing pattern comprises a plurality of cycles, a selected subset of the plurality of memory banks and an address offset for use in determining the address for storing into the respective memory banks indicated for each cycle. In yet another aspect, the stored values may be accessed in order with a sequentially increasing index, such as an address. Various other aspects are also presented. These aspects have the benefit of allowing multiple symbol values to be deinterleaved in an efficient manner, thus meeting computation time constraints, and conserving power. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20110075615 | RECURSIVE REALIZATION OF POLYNOMIAL PERMUTATION INTERLEAVING - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate automatically generating interleaved addresses during turbo decoding. An efficient recursive technique can be employed in which layers of nested loops enable the computation of a polynomial and a modular function given interleaved parameters “a” and “b” from a look up table. With the recursive technique, interleaved addresses can be generated, one interleaved address per clock cycle which can maintain turbo decoding performance. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110107019 | APP (A PRIORI PROBABILITY) STORAGE DESIGN FOR LTE TURBO DECODER WITH QUADRATIC PERMUTATION POLYNOMIAL INTERLEAVER - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate ensuring contention and/or collision free memory within a turbo decoder. A Posteriori Probability (APP) Random Access Memory (RAM) can be segmented or partitioned into two or more files with an interleaving sub-group within each file. This enables parallel operation in a turbo decoder and allows a turbo decoder to access multiple files simultaneously without memory access contention. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110143672 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR PARALLEL CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION - Certain aspects of the disclosure propose parallel channel estimation and interference cancellation in a wireless communications system. For each common reference signal tone offset, interference cancellation and channel estimation may be performed independently. The proposed channel estimation method may increase performance of a system. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110194430 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNIFIED CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Certain aspects of the disclosure propose a unified channel estimation algorithm that combines two or more channel estimation algorithms in a single piece of hardware or software. The proposed unified channel estimation may dynamically switch, based on one or more metrics, between different modes of operation that utilize different channel estimation algorithms. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110249548 | EFFICIENT ZADOFF-CHU SEQUENCE GENERATION - Efficient apparatus and method for Zadoff-Chu (“Chu”) sequence generation avoids additional processing and hardware complexity of conventional quadratic generating formula followed by Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) with a reference signal generator that produces both a Zadoff-Chu sequence and its DFT. In the wireless communication system (e.g., Long Term Evolution (LTE) system), Chu sequences are extensively used, especially in the uplink (UL). Because of the single carrier operating mode, transmitting a Chu sequence in principle involves a succession of generating that sequence, performing a DFT operation and then an IFFT operation. Assuming that the sequence length is N, the initial sequence generation requires 2N multiplications and the DFT requires more than N log 2(N) multiplications. Given the frequent processing of Chu sequences, this would represent a complexity burden. The invention makes it possible to perform the sequence generation and DFT steps without any multiplication operation, except for possibly calculating certain initial parameters. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110280133 | SCALABLE SCHEDULER ARCHITECTURE FOR CHANNEL DECODING - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for processing wireless communications. According to one aspect, a processing unit may receive a plurality of code blocks of a transport block and schedule the plurality of code blocks to be decoded in parallel with a plurality of decoders. Each decoder decodes at least one code block as an independent tasks. The processing unit further collects the decoded information bits from the plurality of decoders and forwards the collected decoded information bits for further processing. In one aspect, the processing unit includes an output agent to temporarily store the decoded information bits while waiting for all code blocks of the transport block to be decoded. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280185 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARALLEL DE-INTERLEAVING OF LTE INTERLEAVED DATA - A wireless communication signal in Long Term Evolution (LTE) may be interleaved in a manner which permits a partitioning of a received inter-column bit-reversed interleaved code block for improved de-interleaving. The code block may be divided into equal subportions which may be simultaneously de-interleaved both forward and backward, and in parallel with other subportions. An even number of subportions may be provided. Dividing a received code block in this manner may improve de-interleaving performance. | 11-17-2011 |