System and method for voltage-controlled oscillator calibration

    公开(公告)号:US10419008B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-17

    申请号:US15470375

    申请日:2017-03-27

    摘要: Methods and systems are provided for calibrating voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs). frequency control information, relating to output frequency of a VCO, which varies based on changes in operational conditions, may be determined. The frequency control information enables indicating the output frequency within a range of allowable values for control inputs and a range of expected values based on the operational conditions. For each control input setting, calibration control information for a calibration voltage associated with a control input, may be determined, based on the frequency control information, with respect to the operational conditions, to generate a constant output frequency. The operational conditions may be assessed, and a calibration voltage corresponding to the assessed operational conditions may be determined. The calibration voltage may be applied, and based on applying the calibration voltage, a tuning control input for tuning the constant output frequency may be determined and applied to the VCO.

    Method and apparatus for controlling mismatch in a voltage controlled oscillator array

    公开(公告)号:US10284207B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-07

    申请号:US15812221

    申请日:2017-11-14

    IPC分类号: H03L7/07 H03B5/12

    摘要: Methods and systems are provided for adaptively configuring voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) arrays, such as to reduce mismatches among the VCOs. A plurality of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), connected in parallel to a common control input, and with each VCO outputting an oscillating signal based on the common control input and an adjustment input, may be configured to reduce mismatches among the VCOs. The plurality of VCO may be configured by adjusting at least one operational parameter applicable to interconnection paths connecting outputs of the plurality of VCOs; measuring a mismatch between signals at the outputs of the plurality of VCOs with respect to a first signal parameter; and adjusting a first operational parameter applicable to one or more of the plurality of VCOs to reduce mismatch between signals at the outputs of the plurality of VCOs with respect to a first signal parameter.

    Phased array feeder (PAF) for point to point links

    公开(公告)号:US10243267B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-26

    申请号:US15155572

    申请日:2016-05-16

    IPC分类号: H01Q3/26 H01Q19/17 H01Q3/00

    摘要: A point-to-point (PtP) communication system includes a near end antenna device configured to transmit a narrow antenna beam over a wireless link, and includes a far end antenna device configured receive the narrow antenna beam over the wireless link. The near end antenna device including a directive element configured to focus an electrical field into the narrow antenna beam, and including a beam steering element (e.g., a phased array feeder (PAF) assembly) configured to generate the electrical field and to track the far end antenna, and further including a communication interface unit (e.g., an outdoor unit) configured to perform operations on a transmitted signal and a received signal.

    Predistortion for hybrid digital/analog precoders

    公开(公告)号:US10135505B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US15671523

    申请日:2017-08-08

    发明人: Ronen Shaked

    IPC分类号: H04B7/0456

    摘要: A 5G base station transmitter at least partially precodes data for beam forming, and generates digital precoded baseband signals. Cross product circuitry coupled to the digital precoder, generates digital cross products of the digital precoded baseband signals. Both the baseband signals and the cross products are put through digital-to-analog converters (DACs), then provided to an analog non-linear precoder. The analog non-linear precoder combines the analog baseband signals, the cross products, with pre-distortion and precoder coefficients to generate a signal that is pre-compensated for power amplifier non-linearity. The pre-compensated signal is amplified by the power amplifier and transmitted via a phased antenna array. The number of extra DACs required for inserting pre-distortion when a hybrid digital/analog precoder is used can be limited to approximately N RF ⁡ ( N RF - 1 ) 2 , where NRF is the number of outputs of the digital precoder. This is significantly fewer than the number of extra DACs used by other methods.

    Microwave backhaul system having quadruple capacity

    公开(公告)号:US10122520B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15834201

    申请日:2017-12-07

    发明人: Kobi Sturkovich

    IPC分类号: H04L5/04 H04L25/03 H04B7/10

    摘要: A microwave backhaul system having quadruple capacity. In one embodiment, an outdoor communication unit in a microwave backhaul system is provided, which includes a first and second dual channel processing modules that are each configured to process two transmission/reception channels. The outdoor communication unit also includes two transmitter modules that are each configured to upconvert two channels for transmission at vertical polarization and a horizontal polarization.