Pulse or digital communications – Receivers
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-11
2006-07-11
Bocure, Tesfaldet (Department: 2631)
Pulse or digital communications
Receivers
C375S355000, C370S503000, C370S523000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07076002
ABSTRACT:
The apparatus for symbol boundary synchronization in one embodiment includes on the receive path of a multi-tone modem a window synchronizer, a converter and a symbol boundary component. The window synchronizer obtains windowed portions of the received datastream which includes symbols each expressed with a corresponding set of tones in a time domain. The windowed portions obtained in the training phase exhibit varying degrees of misalignment with the corresponding symbol boundaries. The window synchronizer is responsive to an alignment signal to obtain succeeding windowed portions of the incoming datastream aligned with the corresponding symbol boundaries therein. The converter couples to the window synchronizer to convert the set of tones from each windowed portion from the time domain to a frequency domain. The symbol boundary module couples to the converter to evaluate a phasor angle characteristic of selected tones from each windowed portion converted by the converter and to convert the phasor angle characteristic of the selected tones from a selected one of the windowed portions to the alignment signal to align the window synchronizer with the symbol boundaries in the received datastream. In an alternate embodiment of the invention the symbol boundary component couples to the window synchronizer to correlate sign values of the selected tones with a reference set and to output the alignment signal identifying the corresponding windowed portion which exhibits maximum correlation with the reference set to align the window synchronizer.
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Ayrapetian Robert
Chien Max
Heidari Sam
Ramirez-Mireles Fernando
Smith Dale
Cary Charles C
Ikanos Communication Inc.
IP Creators
Panwalkar Vineeta
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