A RECEIVER SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO ALTERNATE BETWEEN DIFFERENT BEAMFORMING TYPES

Kalle Spoof (Inventor), Miikka Tenhunen (Inventor), Kari Stadius (Inventor), Vishnu Unnikrishnan (Inventor), Marko Kosunen (Inventor), Jussi Ryynänen (Inventor)

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Abstract

The proposed disclosure relates to a method (100) and system (1) arranged to provide beamforming of incoming radio-frequency signals, the receiver system (1) comprising at least one digital signal processor, DSP (2), a plurality of analogue-to-digital converters, ADC (3), each connected to the at least one DSP (2). Further the system comprises a plurality of sample-and-hold, S&H, circuit groups (4), each comprising a plurality of sample-and-hold circuits (5) additively connected to a respective ADC (3) and a plurality of receiving antenna connections (6) each connected to a respective S&H circuit (5) in each group (4) at one end and each antenna connection (6) connected to a respective antenna (7). The receiver system (1) is configured to selectively alternate between a plurality of beamforming functionalities, wherein the receiver system (1) is arranged to time-interleave the ADCs (3) and control specific S&H circuits (5) in each S&H group (4) by at least one of time-interleave or disable specific S&H circuits (5) depending on a set beamforming functionality.

Original languageEnglish
Patent numberWO2022108513
IPCH04L 25/ 03 A I
Priority date23/11/2020
Publication statusPublished - 27 May 2022
MoE publication typeH1 Granted patent

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