Transceiver with spectral analysis

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8995502-B1
Application number	US-68874207-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Mar 20, 2007
Priority date	Apr 4, 2006
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

A transceiver for a cellular telephone network includes a transmitter and a receiver that receives transmitted signals, as well as a receiver. A spectral analyzer analyzes the received signals and a controller coupled to the spectral analyzer controls the transmitter and receiver as a function of the spectral analyzer analysis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A transceiver for a cellular telephone network, the transceiver comprising:
a transmitter configured to receive an input signal and provide a transmit signal according to the input signal, wherein the transmit signal is suitable for transmission;
a power amplifier coupled to the transmitter and configured to:
receive an analog output signal representative of the transmit signal from the transmitter; and
produce an amplified output signal by amplifying the received analog output signal;

a receiver configured to receive the amplified output signal;
a spectral analyzer coupled to the receiver and configured to:
perform a comparison between the input signal and the received amplified output signal;
generate spectral power information based on the comparison, wherein the spectral power information comprises information about spectral power of the input signal and the received amplifier output signal with respect to frequency within a specified frequency range; and

a controller coupled to the spectral analyzer and configured to:
receive the spectral power information; and
control transmitter gain as a function of the received spectral power information.

2. The transceiver of claim 1 , further comprising a power detector coupled to the controller and configured to receive the amplified output signal and provide a signal representative of power.

3. The transceiver of claim 2 , wherein the controller is further configured to control a power supply voltage coupled to the power amplifier.

4. The transceiver of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to reduce transmitter gain if spectral emissions are above a threshold.

5. The transmitter of claim 1 , further comprising a waveform conditioning module configured to provide peak-envelope reduction and signal predistortion of the input signal, and wherein the controller is further configured to control the peak-envelope reduction and digital predistortion of the input signal responsive to the received spectral power information.

6. A method of transmitting a signal, the method comprising:
receiving a signal to be transmitted;
pre-distorting the signal as a function of transmitter gain;
obtaining a feedback signal based on the transmitted pre-distorted signal;
performing spectral analysis on the feedback signal, comprising measuring a magnitude of the feedback signal versus frequency over a specified frequency range;
comparing the received signal to the feedback signal, and generate information about received spectral power according to the comparison and the spectral analysis, wherein the information comprises information about power of the received signal and the feedback signal with respect to frequency within the specified frequency range; and
modifying pre-distortion of the received signal as a function of the spectral analysis and the information.

7. The method of claim 6 and further comprising measuring analog output power of the transmitter.

8. The method of claim 7 and further comprising controlling at least one of a supply voltage to a transmitter and gain of the transmitter.

9. A transceiver for a cellular telephone network, the transceiver comprising:
a receiver configured to receive an input signal and provide an output signal suitable for processing by the network;
a waveform conditioning module configured to provide impairment compensation and signal formatting for further processing by the network;
a spectral analyzer coupled to the receiver and the waveform conditioning module, and configured to:
provide a spectral analysis of the input signal;
perform a comparison between the input signal and a received output; and
generate information about received spectral power according to the comparison, wherein the information comprises information about power of the input signal and the received output with respect to frequency within a specified frequency range; and

a controller coupled to the spectral analyzer, and configured to control the receiver and the waveform conditioning module as a function of the spectral analysis and the information.

10. The transceiver of claim 9 wherein the receiver comprises adjustable gain control and filtering elements.

11. The transceiver of claim 10 wherein the waveform conditioning module comprises adjustable gain and filtering elements.

12. The transceiver of claim 11 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the gain and filtering elements of the receiver and the waveform conditioning module based on spectral analyzer measurements and other transceiver measurements.

Assignees

• Lai Stephen
• Rashev Peter Zahariev
• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Lai Stephen
• Rashev Peter Zahariev

Classifications

• H04L25/00 Primary

  Baseband systems · CPC title

• H04B1/38 Primary

  Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving · CPC title