Universal platform module for a plurality of communication protocols

DF Sorrells, MJ Bultman, RW Cook, RC Looke… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
A communication system comprising a multi-protocol, multi-bearer sub-system is described
herein. The sub-system is a universal platform module that can transmit and receive one or …

Communications device with in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) DC offset, gain and phase imbalance compensation and related method

WN Furman - US Patent 8,792,590, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A DC offset estimator and removal circuit removes the DC offsets for each
of the I and Q signal components in a received signal. A gain imbalance estimator and …

Methods and systems for down-converting a signal using a complementary transistor structure

DF Sorrells, MJ Bultman, RW Cook, RC Looke… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by
aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and …

Method and system for down-converting an electromagnetic signal, and transforms for same

DF Sorrells, MJ Bultman, RW Cook, RC Looke… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, and combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for
down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal are described herein. Briefly stated, in …

Apparatus and method of differential IQ frequency up-conversion

DF Sorrells, MJ Bultman, RW Cook, RC Looke… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
A balanced transmitter up-converts I and Q baseband signals directly from baseband-to-RF.
The up-conversion process is sufficiently linear that no IF processing is required, even in …

Gain control in a communication channel

GS Rawlins, K Brown, MW Rawlins… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
Methods and apparatuses for reducing DC offsets in a communication system are described.
In a first aspect, a feedback loop circuit reduces DC offset in a wireless local area network …

Down-conversion of an electromagnetic signal with feedback control

DF Sorrells, MJ Bultman, RW Cook, JS Jensen… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by
aliasing the EM signal, and applications thereof are described herein. Reducing or …

Up-conversion based on gated information signal

DF Sorrells, MJ Bultman, RW Cook, RC Looke… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
A method and system is described wherein an information signals is gated at a frequency
that is a sub-harmonic of the frequency of the desired output signal. In the modulation …

Wireless local area network (WLAN) using universal frequency translation technology including multi-phase embodiments

DF Sorrells, MJ Bultman, RW Cook, RC Looke… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
Frequency translation and applications of the same are described herein, including RF
modem and wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. In embodiments, the WLAN …

Method and system for frequency up-conversion

DF Sorrells, MJ Bultman, RW Cook, RC Looke… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
A method and system is described wherein a signal with a lower frequency is up-converted
to a higher frequency. In one embodiment, the higher frequency signal is used as a stable …