Multichannel architecture for high throughput modems
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
H04B-007/00
H04L-005/00
H04W-088/08
출원번호
US-0482880
(2009-06-11)
등록번호
US-8830885
(2014-09-09)
발명자
/ 주소
Sampath, Hemanth
Jones, IV, Vincent K.
출원인 / 주소
QUALCOMM Incorporated
대리인 / 주소
Ho, Eric
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8
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An apparatus for wireless communications is disclosed herein that is configured to have a plurality of transceivers arranged to process a plurality of spatial streams, wherein each of the plurality of transceivers is configured to operate asynchronously and simultaneously with other transceivers of
An apparatus for wireless communications is disclosed herein that is configured to have a plurality of transceivers arranged to process a plurality of spatial streams, wherein each of the plurality of transceivers is configured to operate asynchronously and simultaneously with other transceivers of the plurality of transceivers.
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1. An apparatus for communications, comprising: a plurality of transceivers arranged to process a plurality of spatial streams, wherein each of the plurality of transceivers is configured to operate asynchronously and simultaneously with other transceivers of the plurality of transceivers, and to su
1. An apparatus for communications, comprising: a plurality of transceivers arranged to process a plurality of spatial streams, wherein each of the plurality of transceivers is configured to operate asynchronously and simultaneously with other transceivers of the plurality of transceivers, and to support a different access protocol than at least one other transceiver,wherein a channel bandwidth of each of the plurality of transceivers is independently adjustable, a first subset of one or more of the plurality of transceivers are in a receiver mode, and a second subset of one or more of the plurality of transceivers are in a transmit mode at any given instant of time. 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of transceivers is further configured to support a different frequency channel than at least one other transceiver. 3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the plurality of transceivers support a plurality of frequency channels for an access point to support an access terminal comprising only one transceiver communicating on one of the frequency channels supported by the access point. 4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the access terminal may autonomously switch to any frequency channel supported by the access point. 5. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the access point may switch the access terminal to communicate on any frequency channel supported by the access point. 6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the plurality of transceivers are further configured to process the plurality of spatial streams for communicating with a plurality of nodes. 7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the plurality of transceivers comprises at least two antennas. 8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein each antenna in the at least two antennas has a different polarization or beam pattern. 9. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein each of the plurality of transceivers further comprises an amplifier and a bandpass filter between the amplifier and its respective antenna. 10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein each bandpass filter comprises a bulk acoustic wave filter. 11. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein each of the plurality of transceivers comprises a receiver having the amplifier and the bandpass filter, wherein the amplifier comprises a low noise amplifier. 12. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein each of the plurality of transceivers comprises a transmitter having the amplifier and the bandpass filter, wherein the amplifier comprises a variable gain amplifier. 13. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of transceivers comprises a mixer that is independently tunable from at least one other mixer. 14. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of transceivers comprises a receiver having a FFT and a transmitter having an IFFT. 15. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality transceivers comprises a receiver comprising a filter that is independently tunable from at least one other filter. 16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the filter comprises an analog filter. 17. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the filter comprises a digital filter. 18. A method for communication, comprising: simultaneously and asynchronously processing a plurality of spatial streams using a plurality of transceivers,wherein each of the plurality of transceivers supports a different access protocol than at least one other transceiver, a channel bandwidth of each of the plurality of transceivers is independently adjustable, a first subset of one or more of the plurality of transceivers is in a receiver mode, and a second subset of one or more of the plurality of transceivers is in a transmit mode at any given instant of time. 19. The method of claim 18 further comprising each of the plurality of transceivers supporting a different frequency channel than at least one other transceiver. 20. The method of claim 18 wherein the plurality of transceivers support a plurality of frequency channels for an access point to support an access terminal comprising only one transceiver communicating on one of the frequency channels supported by the access point. 21. The method of claim 20 wherein the access terminal may autonomously switch to any frequency channel supported by the access point. 22. The method of claim 20 wherein the access point may switch the access terminal to communicate on any frequency channel supported by the access point. 23. The method of claim 18 further comprising processing the plurality of spatial streams for communicating with a plurality of nodes. 24. The method of claim 18 wherein the processing comprises employing at least two separate antennas. 25. The method of claim 24, wherein each antenna in the at least two separate antennas has a different polarization or beam pattern. 26. The method of claim 24 wherein the processing further comprises amplifying and bandpass filtering. 27. The method of claim 26 wherein the bandpass filtering comprises a bulk acoustic wave filtering. 28. The method of claim 26 wherein the processing comprises receiving with amplifying and bandpass filtering, wherein the amplifying comprises low noise amplifying. 29. The method of claim 26 wherein the processing comprises transmitting with amplifying and bandpass filtering, wherein the amplifying comprises variable gain amplifying. 30. The method of claim 18 wherein the processing comprises independently tunable mixing. 31. The method of claim 18 wherein the processing comprises receiving using a FFT and transmitting using an IFFT. 32. The method of claim 18 wherein the processing comprises receiving with independently tunable filtering. 33. The method of claim 32 wherein the filtering comprises analog filtering. 34. The method of claim 32 wherein the filtering comprises digital filtering. 35. An apparatus for communication, comprising: means for simultaneously processing a plurality of spatial streams using a plurality of transceivers;means for asynchronously processing the plurality of spatial streams using the plurality of transceivers; andmeans for each of the plurality of transceivers to support a different access protocol than at least one other transceiver;wherein a channel bandwidth of each of the plurality of transceivers is independently adjustable, a first subset of one or more of the plurality of transceivers is in a receiver mode, and a second subset of one or more of the plurality of transceivers is in a transmit mode at any given instant of time. 36. The apparatus of claim 35 wherein each of the plurality of transceivers supports a different frequency channel than at least one other transceiver. 37. The apparatus of claim 35 wherein the plurality of transceivers support a plurality of frequency channels for an access point to support an access terminal comprising only one transceiver communicating on one of the frequency channels supported by the access point. 38. The apparatus of claim 37 wherein the access terminal may autonomously switch to any frequency channel supported by the access point. 39. The apparatus of claim 37 wherein the access point may switch the access terminal to communicate on any frequency channel supported by the access point. 40. The apparatus of claim 35 wherein at least one of the means for simultaneously processing and the means for asynchronously processing further comprises means for amplifying and means for bandpass filtering. 41. The apparatus of claim 35 further comprising means for processing the plurality of spatial streams for communicating with a plurality of nodes. 42. The apparatus of claim 35 wherein a channel bandwidth of each of the plurality of transceivers is independently adjustable. 43. The apparatus of claim 35 wherein at least one of the means for simultaneously processing and the means for asynchronously processing comprises means for employing at least two separate antennas. 44. The apparatus of claim 43 wherein at least one of the means for simultaneously processing and the means for asynchronously processing using each of the plurality of transceivers further comprises means for amplifying and means for bandpass filtering. 45. The apparatus of claim 44 wherein the means for bandpass filtering comprises means for bulk acoustic wave filtering. 46. The apparatus of claim 44 wherein the at least one of the means for simultaneously processing and the means for asynchronously processing comprises means for receiving with amplifying means and bandpass filtering means, wherein the amplifying means comprises low noise amplifying means. 47. The apparatus of claim 44 wherein the at least one of the means for simultaneously processing and the means for asynchronously processing comprises means for transmitting with amplifying means and bandpass filtering means, wherein the amplifying means comprises variable gain amplifying means. 48. The apparatus of claim 43, wherein each antenna in the at least two separate antennas has a different polarization or beam pattern. 49. The apparatus of claim 35 wherein at least one of the means for simultaneously processing and the means for asynchronously processing comprises means for independently tunable mixing. 50. The apparatus of claim 35 wherein at least one of the means for simultaneously processing and the means for asynchronously processing comprises receiving means comprising means for performing an FFT and transmitting means comprising means for performing an IFFT. 51. The apparatus of claim 35 wherein at least one of the means for simultaneously processing and the means for asynchronously processing comprises means for receiving comprising independently tunable filtering means. 52. The apparatus of claim 51 wherein the filtering means comprises analog filtering means. 53. The apparatus of claim 51 wherein the filtering means comprises digital filtering means. 54. A computer-program product for communication, comprising: a non-transitory machine-readable medium encoded with instructions executable to: process a plurality of spatial streams asynchronously and simultaneously using a plurality of transceivers,wherein each of the plurality of transceivers supports a different access protocol than at least one other transceiver, a channel bandwidth of each of the plurality of transceivers is independently adjustable, a first subset of one or more of the plurality of transceivers is in a receiver mode, and a second subset of one or more of the plurality of transceivers is in a transmit mode at any given instant of time. 55. 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